It's a bank holiday weekend here in the UK, which means house and garden gets put on the to do list ( Read more... )

The diamond jubilee celebrations continue. Yesterday, I did a run through of the boards, posted where appropriate, and then settled down to watch the flotilla of boats making their way down the Thames. I figure this is something that's not going to be attempted often in a lifetime; one thousand boats of assorted shapes and sizes all sailing away ( Read more... )

We've got a long weekend here in the UK; it's the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. Alas, the weather is not as nice as it was earlier in the week, but there are still plenty of street parties planned. You wander around and lots of people have bunting up and/or have parties planned. Tomorrow, there's a massive flotilla going down the Thames - shades of the ( Read more... )

I pretty much slept through yesterday. I got up as normal, puttered around online, wrote up something for Dad etc, and yawned constantly. By lunch-time I decided this was daft and went to have a nap. I didn't wake up again until 5.30pm. Got up, went downstairs, continued to yawn and was back in bed by 6.45pm. Fortunately, it was a bank holiday so ( Read more... )

Today is the May Bank Holiday so we're all off work. This is probably reflected in the bizarre conversations being held... or perhaps not. Maybe we're just nuts *lol ( Read more... )

Yesterday was not a good computer day. For some reason not immediately apparent to me, since it had been working perfectly well that morning, when I switched it on after lunch it informed me that because of a corrupted file it wasn't going to work. I mean nothing worked. It wasn't even loading. I ended up having to do a system recovery to get the ( Read more... )