We arranged with Martyn to meet him on Sunday and take the boat out down to Limehouse Basin, then north up the Lee Navigation, then back along the Hertford canal to the Regent’s Canal and back to base. We arrived in time to find that Lawrence was visiting, so there were 4 of us all [...]
Yesterday I drove Martyn’s boat down the Regent’s Canal We started at Kings Cross and headed westwards down to Little Venice. When we got there we turned around and came back Martyn was driving on the way down, I was doing the locks. St Pancras lock was OK – another boat was waiting for us [...]
The week before last I was on holiday with Ruth. We stayed at my Parent’s house in the Midlands. We had an excellent tour of Nottingham courtesy of the Brit Experience. The lovely Dave showed us some fascinating aspects of Nottingham and we ended up having a small beverage at Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, [...]
Today I’ve been fine tuning some aspects of my blog: The template has changed slightly so that the Permalink links are more obvious I’ve added a description of the blog The Archive section has changed it’s name I’ve also registered at Technorati. So, that’s nice
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Posted 11 August 2005
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I did cooking last night! I put two toad-in-the-hole trays from Tesco in the oven for 35 minutes, washed new potatoes and boiled them for 15 minutes in slightly salty water and then right at the last I nuked some artichoke hearts with some leaf spinach, both from cans. The result was excellent I’m still [...]
I recently upgraded my trusty Nokia 6600 phone to a new 6680. So far I’m very pleased with the phone, although there is a strange extra menu feature which Orange install which is rather annoying. The other thing I’m rather concerned about is the fact that the phone doesn’t always ring – I’ve had lots [...]
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Posted 21 July 2005
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Last night I visited Martyn on his narrow boat in King’s Cross. We were planning to take the boat out for a little chug on the canal – Anthea (one of the boat people) had promised to hold our hands on our maiden voyage. We both arrived back at the boat about 18:30, only to [...]
I still need to get the Mercedes down to the Alignment Centre, now that the wheel bearings have been replaced. There’s a lot of screeching when I go round corners in car parks. The Xantia V6 needs 2 new fans for the radiator, approximate cost £366.60 at BLAutos. I’m starting to wonder if I shouldn’t [...]
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Posted 30 June 2005
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I went to The Dorchester with Ruth and Martyn for afternoon tea last Saturday afternoon. Ruth and I drove in to King’s Cross and parked close to Martyn’s boat. We collected Martyn and then caught a cab to The Dorchester. We had made a reservation (certainly recommended for Saturdays during the summer), and arrived at [...]
Those nice people at George Fraser have replaced the front wheel bearings, fitted new discs and pads and wear sensors. Item Cost Front brake discs 322.40 Front brake pads 113.93 Sensors 10.20 Front wheel bearings 62.96 Labour 195.00 VAT 123.29 Total 827.78 All these prices are in GBP. The mileage at the time was 97,450 [...]
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Posted 26 June 2005
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