A nice sunny day today, so we're sunning ourselves by the pool again. Yesterday was a day of recovery from the previous day's wedding and reception party.

It was a great wedding that Nicole and Graham had in a little church in Marbella's Old Town. A very picturesque part of Marbella. Here's a photo of the church and the square...


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So, yesterday was the first full day of our holiday in Spain. Spain isn't the easiest of places to understand... all the signs are in Spanish, so that's not very convenient. I've learned that salidas means exit bit other than that, I'm usually pretty lost. Luckily there are only two parallel roads here going up and down the coast, the A-7 and the ( Read more... )

Yesterday ...

Linda and I are on an airplane somewhere over France at the moment... on our way to a weeklong holiday in Spain. We're going to stay in Estepona, which is in the southeast part of Spain. It's the first holiday we've had anywhere nice in a long time... about a year and a half.

We flew out of Newcastle and everything's going pretty ( Read more... )

Still at the fish factory doing a work placement project on energy efficiency. Supposed to finish at the end of the month but the project won't be done by then (variable speed drive to be installed for a refrigeration compressor) so I'm being allowed to stay on a bit. I'm hoping things will progress to the point of being able to collect post- ( Read more... )

This Chronicle of my Life thing is a little record-keeping project you may have noticed I've been doing...  I've almost done it for five years now, and when I hit the five year point....  I'll have recorded  synopses of what i've been doing in my life for the past 25 years, based on my written journal as well as overlapping onto my on-line journal ( Read more... )

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Wind Power.... So what happens when the wind doesn't blow ?

I recently read Alex Bramwell on www.Helium.com say what they've done for that problem in the Canary Islands. He wrote this as a rebuttal of the article I re-posted earlier (from Helium.com) which I titled Nuclear vs. Wind:

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More info on The Ballad of John and Yoko... Excerpts from Wikipedia ( Read more... )

Here's what was going on 5 years ago...

September 2004
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- Jenny and Andy go on holiday to Barcelona.

- Jenny starts her third year at the University of Edinburgh, and is in a new flat.

- Someone smashes my car window overnight in Glasgow. Just out of badness.

October 2004
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- I make up my mind to vote for Ralph Nader ( Read more... )