Ruth and I arranged to have a day off today, so we decided a trip to France was in order After getting up at some ungodly hour, we arrived at Dover about 45 minutes before the departure of the Norfolk Line‘s ‘Maersk Dunkerque’. What a fabulous boat! It’s one of the new craft being introduced [...]
Last Thursday evening I went to the pantomime with a whole slew of friends from work. 11 of us occupied most of the second row of the New Victoria Theatre, Woking. The first row was mainly empty, apart from two older people right in the middle of the row. Getting a good view of the [...]
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Posted 22 January 2006
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If you want to buy a present that is fun for all the family, check out Uno Extreme. It’s like traditional Uno, if you know that. If you don’t it’s a card game where each player starts with 7 cards and takes it in turn to put down a card. Cards must match either colour [...]
I was in Hamburg for most of last week, upgrading a customer’s system. I stayed at the Park Hyatt hotel, which was fabulous, as usual. I have stayed here before, when I was installing the system originally way back in 2001. In fact, when I installed the system I made several visits to Hamburg. I [...]
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Posted 27 November 2005
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Now that I’m using the Xantia V6 as my daily transport rather than the Benz C43, I’ve noticed significantly better fuel consumption. Now I’m only using 1 tank of petrol a week, whereas before it was between 1.5 and 2. We sold the BX for £500, so I’m down to two and a half cars [...]
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Posted 09 November 2005
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The man from TNT, on behalf of Orange, arrived at 12:40, 20 minutes before the time he was scheduled to be there. It worked perfectly because I was about 100 yards away from the office, driving back from an early lunch, when the lovely Victoria on the reception desk called to say my new phone [...]
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Posted 26 October 2005
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I called Orange today because my Nokia 6680 has been playing up. Several times now, after it has been on for a while (a few days) it fails to ring when an incoming call arrives. Obviously, this is a big problem for a phone As I now have an Orange Premier account, I called the [...]
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Posted 25 October 2005
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Inkstone: September 2005 This blog seems to have a very calming effect on me – not just this post, but all of it (that I’ve read so far
Late last night the ebay auction ended and the Citroen BX GTi 16V has now been sold. So now I’m down to the Mercedes Benz C43 AMG, the Citroen Xantia V6 and a half share of the Citroen Xantia 2.0 Turbo Activa. The Activa is really Martyn’s to deal with, I don’t have any share [...]
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Posted 24 October 2005
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I heard this on the Today programme on Radio 4, some weeks ago now. It was a comment from a listener. “A restaurant with a smoking section is like a swimming pool with a peeing section.”
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Posted 24 October 2005
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