Continuing our summer visits to heritage sites, having despatched Jax off to work, Monday saw us off to that great British institution IKEA. Our mission, to pick up some bits and pieces Lily needs for uni. IKEA was, well, pretty much the IKEA we all know and um, love. Stocked full of the customary mediocre, […]
Up, up and away
I want one of these. I think it would make a great toy. Fantastic project: A group of students from the University of Cambridge who plan on launching a rocket into space for less than £1,000 have taken the first steps towards achieving their ambitious goal. Nova Balloon
And now for something different…
Blogging with Opera Mini, a mobile phone and T-Mobile web and walk. A :rant: about o2 call centre coming soon…
Sutton Scarsdale and Bolsover Castle
Two EH sites in one day! Sutton Scarsdale Hall which is just to the south of us seemed like a good plan. Lovely setting, but not really much for the small people there. From my point of view too, it was just another pile of stately rubble, surrounded by grass. Sutton Scarsdale Bolsover Castle One […]
Water water everywhere part 3
So, now I have a new phone – Big is currently using it for chess. Jax says she wants one. …One small Big vs Small riot later… Big is no longer using my phone. Better get a few more….
Water, water everywhere (part two)
As recommended by the inestimable Chris, I now have a new phone, or I will have shortly, when DHL get round to me. I have moved from Virgin to o2, This is because, having bought a phone they advertised as having an email client, I found out that email is not part of their service […]
Water, water everywhere
Big watered my mobile phone last night and the errors it it now giving suggest that it is effectively deceased – over a year old and I think it would have to go back to Nokia for repair. I still have about 4 months left on my contract with Virgin (who are rubbish, by the […]
Ode To Autumn
SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With […]
Can you tell what it is yet?
Can you?
Badabingbadaboom
The house price boom reaches new heights… The boom is gaining pace across West Yorkshire…