Update (long overdue)
Quite a lot has been happening since my last post.
On 18th March I attended my first BristolFurs meet in many years, It was good, I met a bunch of very nice people and had a brilliant day.
Photos: BristolFurs meet
I have also been to a few LondonFur meets too, they are always good, especially when I get to see Lee there too :)
Made my way to a few of the HantsFur meets too. Many of them ending up at the all you can eat Chinese restaurant in Shirley, Southampton, The Little Buddha. This is a great place, and highly recommended by me and most other HantsFurs. Notable HantsFurs meets recently were, Bungles birthday, Kev's party, and Wardy's rocket firing in the New Forrest.
Photos here: Bungles Birthday Kev's party Wardy's rocket
Registered and almost now got a plan for EF. I'll be going with Andysqirrel most likely by plane and then hiring a car. I'm looking forward to it, it is going to be one of the better EFs methinks.
The ferrets Fred and Barney are doing fine, they now have a massive new cage in the kitchen and the old cage has been moved into the lounge so they can watch the tele with me in the evening. Ferretcam www.ferretcam.co.uk is currently offline due to the webcam software going tits up... It will be back on soon as I get some replacement software, if anyone can recommend a good webcam program it will be very much appreciated.
In other stuff, I’ve been looking at getting a replacement camera. I recently went to the West Midlands safari park with Matt Lion and Lilsi and was lent a camera to try out by a colleague at work, thanks to Ton for that. As my Sony camera has now been pronounced dead, it got dropped and broke, I'm looking for a replacement. The one I borrowed was a Fuji finepix 5600 the photos I took can be found here West Midlands safari park.
I think they're pretty good, I am now thinking of getting the 6500 which is about double the price though, undecided at the moment.
As you have probably noticed by the links I have now got a picassa account to put all my pictures on, this was also recommended to me by the same guy who lent me the Fuji camera. So most of today I spent putting the pictures up there. This account is tempory however as it will soon be transferred to my own dedicated Linux server running Galley2, just as soon as I learn how to use it.
Lastly, how as all this updating been possible? Well, for the past two days I have been off work. I had a small accident at home on Wednesday morning
Recently the place where I work had a drive on providing everyone who requires them a pair of new safety shoes, for walking round in those “hazardous” areas of the site. I quite liked the look of them so I put my name down for a pair and got them a few weeks later and have been using them ever since. Now these things although they look nice are not easy to ware, as they are pretty big and heavy due to the big lump of steel covering the toe area.
Wednesday morning I was getting ready for work as usual, came down stairs and put on my safety shoes. I then remembered I had left a box of bits upstairs that I should have taken with me. No worries, I was running a little late so I flew upstairs grabbed the box and came back down again.
At the best of times it is not easy to run up and down my staircase as it is a spiral staircase and made of steel. Halfway down I found out it was even more difficult in oversized heavy safety shoes. I lost my footing and fell down the stairs with the box landing on top of me and also clunking my head on the steel railing on the way down. After phoning work and getting checked over by a paramedic - In that order!!! I have bruising all down my right side, bruised ribs and a nasty cut on my head, but otherwise ok….. So no work for a couple of days and nothing else either really…. It is ironic though when the new safety shoes that you got from work can be responsible for you having an accident and being off work for two days!
so I am now staying in resting. Back to work on Friday.
Well, that’s all for now, update again very soon…
On 18th March I attended my first BristolFurs meet in many years, It was good, I met a bunch of very nice people and had a brilliant day.
Photos: BristolFurs meet
I have also been to a few LondonFur meets too, they are always good, especially when I get to see Lee there too :)
Made my way to a few of the HantsFur meets too. Many of them ending up at the all you can eat Chinese restaurant in Shirley, Southampton, The Little Buddha. This is a great place, and highly recommended by me and most other HantsFurs. Notable HantsFurs meets recently were, Bungles birthday, Kev's party, and Wardy's rocket firing in the New Forrest.
Photos here: Bungles Birthday Kev's party Wardy's rocket
Registered and almost now got a plan for EF. I'll be going with Andysqirrel most likely by plane and then hiring a car. I'm looking forward to it, it is going to be one of the better EFs methinks.
The ferrets Fred and Barney are doing fine, they now have a massive new cage in the kitchen and the old cage has been moved into the lounge so they can watch the tele with me in the evening. Ferretcam www.ferretcam.co.uk is currently offline due to the webcam software going tits up... It will be back on soon as I get some replacement software, if anyone can recommend a good webcam program it will be very much appreciated.
In other stuff, I’ve been looking at getting a replacement camera. I recently went to the West Midlands safari park with Matt Lion and Lilsi and was lent a camera to try out by a colleague at work, thanks to Ton for that. As my Sony camera has now been pronounced dead, it got dropped and broke, I'm looking for a replacement. The one I borrowed was a Fuji finepix 5600 the photos I took can be found here West Midlands safari park.
I think they're pretty good, I am now thinking of getting the 6500 which is about double the price though, undecided at the moment.
As you have probably noticed by the links I have now got a picassa account to put all my pictures on, this was also recommended to me by the same guy who lent me the Fuji camera. So most of today I spent putting the pictures up there. This account is tempory however as it will soon be transferred to my own dedicated Linux server running Galley2, just as soon as I learn how to use it.
Lastly, how as all this updating been possible? Well, for the past two days I have been off work. I had a small accident at home on Wednesday morning
Recently the place where I work had a drive on providing everyone who requires them a pair of new safety shoes, for walking round in those “hazardous” areas of the site. I quite liked the look of them so I put my name down for a pair and got them a few weeks later and have been using them ever since. Now these things although they look nice are not easy to ware, as they are pretty big and heavy due to the big lump of steel covering the toe area.
Wednesday morning I was getting ready for work as usual, came down stairs and put on my safety shoes. I then remembered I had left a box of bits upstairs that I should have taken with me. No worries, I was running a little late so I flew upstairs grabbed the box and came back down again.
At the best of times it is not easy to run up and down my staircase as it is a spiral staircase and made of steel. Halfway down I found out it was even more difficult in oversized heavy safety shoes. I lost my footing and fell down the stairs with the box landing on top of me and also clunking my head on the steel railing on the way down. After phoning work and getting checked over by a paramedic - In that order!!! I have bruising all down my right side, bruised ribs and a nasty cut on my head, but otherwise ok….. So no work for a couple of days and nothing else either really…. It is ironic though when the new safety shoes that you got from work can be responsible for you having an accident and being off work for two days!
so I am now staying in resting. Back to work on Friday.
Well, that’s all for now, update again very soon…