Tuesday 30 June 2009
Routine.
n.b. I am posting this Tuesday afternoon. I wrote the below last Friday evening. I will post it as it is how I felt at the time and it should be read with humour in mind, not cynicism. I had a good night Saturday night and a great time the whole weekend. Just didn't realise how much I use the creature comforts each and every day.
Routine.
This weekend has been a lesson in routine. We were over visiting Legs Granny 'Granny' in Norfolk and the drive over takes 3.5 hours. This means that no matter how we cut it, Alfie was going to be awake for a fair amount of the journey. Luckily, Alfie is a blessed child and slept for 2 hours. We stopped for a coffee and let him stretch his legs. The final hour, however, was a challenge only overcome by some serious singing on our part and even then, the last 10 minutes were just too much for the little fella so it was with great relief that we all landed safe and sound without that much delay.
Now. 'Granny' has a routine of her own. Dinner in her house is served around 5:30 and done and dusted well before 7 when the soaps start. You can imagine that this would clash beautifully with Alfies bedtime routine. As it turned out, it was all fine and we all ate together which was actually nice. Kind of bizarre for legs and me though as we are used to eating at about 8! Of course, with such an early dinner, an early breakfast follows so that was done, through and complete about 7:30 and the day was upon us.
I suppose the biggest sufferers of the routine shifts were me and legs. It is amazing how much one relies on lifes luxuries and how little one notices until they are not there. This weekend, I have had no internet so no facebook, twitter, blog, website, poker, scrabble, chess etc etc... We have had no sky TV and no DVD player. 'Granny' has her tele with her 4.5 channels and that is all she needs. In a moment of pure genius, I did bring my computer on the pretense of showing Granny some photos of the boy and this has had the (purely unintentional) side-effect of me having several films to watch should I get desperate. Tonight (Friday) I am watching 'In Bruges' (not bad).
Suffering isn't really fair. It is just that while away from home I cannot get on with the garden, housework or DIY and without the above mentioned luxuries I can't do much else either. The tele is watchable for only so long. The talk is good though and later we will no doubt get the cards out for a game of Australian rummy. Not being a baby and not being a pensioner does have this one big drawback though. My daily routine is all the way up the kyber right now but I am not a baby so I cannot cry about it and I am not a pensioner so I cannot moan either, except I just did. God bless the blog! :)
FINGERS CROSSED FOR THE JOURNEY BACK SUNDAY AFTERNOON!!! (Which went really well. By the way)
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Routine.
This weekend has been a lesson in routine. We were over visiting Legs Granny 'Granny' in Norfolk and the drive over takes 3.5 hours. This means that no matter how we cut it, Alfie was going to be awake for a fair amount of the journey. Luckily, Alfie is a blessed child and slept for 2 hours. We stopped for a coffee and let him stretch his legs. The final hour, however, was a challenge only overcome by some serious singing on our part and even then, the last 10 minutes were just too much for the little fella so it was with great relief that we all landed safe and sound without that much delay.
Now. 'Granny' has a routine of her own. Dinner in her house is served around 5:30 and done and dusted well before 7 when the soaps start. You can imagine that this would clash beautifully with Alfies bedtime routine. As it turned out, it was all fine and we all ate together which was actually nice. Kind of bizarre for legs and me though as we are used to eating at about 8! Of course, with such an early dinner, an early breakfast follows so that was done, through and complete about 7:30 and the day was upon us.
I suppose the biggest sufferers of the routine shifts were me and legs. It is amazing how much one relies on lifes luxuries and how little one notices until they are not there. This weekend, I have had no internet so no facebook, twitter, blog, website, poker, scrabble, chess etc etc... We have had no sky TV and no DVD player. 'Granny' has her tele with her 4.5 channels and that is all she needs. In a moment of pure genius, I did bring my computer on the pretense of showing Granny some photos of the boy and this has had the (purely unintentional) side-effect of me having several films to watch should I get desperate. Tonight (Friday) I am watching 'In Bruges' (not bad).
Suffering isn't really fair. It is just that while away from home I cannot get on with the garden, housework or DIY and without the above mentioned luxuries I can't do much else either. The tele is watchable for only so long. The talk is good though and later we will no doubt get the cards out for a game of Australian rummy. Not being a baby and not being a pensioner does have this one big drawback though. My daily routine is all the way up the kyber right now but I am not a baby so I cannot cry about it and I am not a pensioner so I cannot moan either, except I just did. God bless the blog! :)
FINGERS CROSSED FOR THE JOURNEY BACK SUNDAY AFTERNOON!!! (Which went really well. By the way)
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Thursday 18 June 2009
Flickr Images
I have decided to bypass my image loading page for now as it is slowing down the load time something cronic on the blog. As a result I have replaced the images with the original flickr images. This means they may well not be visible from some workplaces but thems the breaks I suppose. I would rather have a fast load time and then people can see the pictures when they are back home....
I may look into speeding up the streaming image thing as it does work nicely.... just very slowly....
To be continued...
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I may look into speeding up the streaming image thing as it does work nicely.... just very slowly....
To be continued...
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Wednesday 17 June 2009
BBC Links
A couple of BBC articles caught my eye today...
"Antony Walker, chief executive of the Broadband Stakeholders' Group, believes the tax will mean that 90% of the UK will be able to benefit from broadband of up to 50Mbps by 2017."
BBC Article
"Ever wondered why you have had to travel the length of the country on a wet Tuesday night to watch your team in action?
Or you haven't played at home on Boxing Day for the last three years?
Like me, you've probably just blamed the fixture computer, that mythical piece of technology that determines where you will be and when throughout the football season."
BBC Blog
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"Antony Walker, chief executive of the Broadband Stakeholders' Group, believes the tax will mean that 90% of the UK will be able to benefit from broadband of up to 50Mbps by 2017."
BBC Article
"Ever wondered why you have had to travel the length of the country on a wet Tuesday night to watch your team in action?
Or you haven't played at home on Boxing Day for the last three years?
Like me, you've probably just blamed the fixture computer, that mythical piece of technology that determines where you will be and when throughout the football season."
BBC Blog
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Tuesday 16 June 2009
Chess - Running Deep
I am running pretty well in a chess tourney on gameknot. Started with over 500 players and we are now down to the last 4 groups totalling 17 players. Look me up on gameknot if you fancy a game... Wish me luck!!
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Saturday 13 June 2009
Two photos.
Here is a nice one of Alfie from this morning..
And here is a nice one of the rose in our garden. It has grown up around our apple tree down by the compost heaps and it seems to be loving life. Thought I had best prove that it was lovely in case it is over by the party next weekend....
As always, big versions on my flickr page...
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And here is a nice one of the rose in our garden. It has grown up around our apple tree down by the compost heaps and it seems to be loving life. Thought I had best prove that it was lovely in case it is over by the party next weekend....
As always, big versions on my flickr page...
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Friday 12 June 2009
Cathedral Feast
Went on another Cathedral feast with El and G last night. Always a nice way to spend a couple of hours. It was light last night too so I managed to get some nice photos taken. See my flickr page for the full ones but here is a small version of one I took at the top about 9:30pm. Quality.
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Tuesday 9 June 2009
Tree bench update.
A quick update on the tree bench. I have made all the legs and all the wood has at least 3 coats of various protection on it. The legs are a different colour to the seat as the seat has been oiled up where the legs have been cuprinoled to within an inch of their lives! Here are a couple of small images but the big photos can be seen at my flickr page. My photos
Tonight there will be a lot of measuring and marking and labelling in prep for the drilling, countersinking and screwing over the next couple of evenings. Looking good so far though. :)
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Tonight there will be a lot of measuring and marking and labelling in prep for the drilling, countersinking and screwing over the next couple of evenings. Looking good so far though. :)
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Friday 5 June 2009
Thursday 4 June 2009
Quantum Entanglement - awesome!
So they have now entangled 4 atoms in a mechanical system, this stuff is so cool. I seriously hope to be involved one day.
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