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Archive for December, 2007

Service interuption

WellLos clientes AOL pueden utilizar el software juegos poker en línea con AOL versión 3,0 o posterior. guys, I may be offline again for a while…. On Christmas eve my recent technology woes reached a new peak. My laptop has died. It seems converting some DVD content to ipod format was too much for it and something went [...]

27 December 2007 at 18:37 - Comments

Covent Garden’s Flying Helium Balloon Acrobat

– Click to enlarge. As usual, my Christmas shopping has been left to the last weekend possible – but I am kinda pleased at my lack of planning or I would not have discovered the Christmas food market in Covent Garden and its tasty bratwurst. Nor would I have witnessed the slightly crazy lady [...]

24 December 2007 at 02:15 - Comments

12 days off work – yay!

I finished work yesterday for the Christmas break, and I do not go back until 3rd January. 12 days off. Result! OK – so the first half of today was a write off due to the fact that we went out last night and consumed copious amounts of beer, and I was then unable to get out of [...]

23 December 2007 at 00:54 - Comments

Kiki & Herb’s second coming.

Well ‘The Second Coming’ was one tag line…. Another was ‘Kiki & Herb stick the yule log in the Shepherd’s Bush’, which I think is much more of a fun title, but hey ho…. Kiki & Herb feel like a part of Christmas now as I have seen a few of their festive shows. Actually, I think I [...]

21 December 2007 at 01:35 - Comments

Brussels city hall in lights

Brussels City Hall…. above by night, and below by day….

Spent last weekend in Brussels from Saturday afternoon until Monday evening. My first visit there, and I enjoyed it very much. The Christmas Fair was lovely. The Belgian Beer did flow. I can recommend the local Beef Carbonnade. Mussels and frites were also tasty. The chocolate goes without [...]

21 December 2007 at 01:04 - Comments

My Christmas Tree

– Click to enlarge. I would have posted this a week or so ago when I actually put the tree up – but between my ISP sucking majorly and my being as busy as fuck, I only just did it. So here it is. Nice huh?

21 December 2007 at 00:33 - Comments
Hey there, loving the blog. Merry Christmas. bryn x
25 December 07 at 09:26
Thanks Bryn. All the best for the rest of the holidays to you too.
27 December 07 at 18:30

Snowed in, almost.

– Click to enlarge. We spent yesterday afternoon in Hexham and we decided to head back at approaching 3pm due to the worsening conditions. We almost didn’t make it. The main road through my parents village is normally kept clear as it is a military road, however, yesterdays sudden snowfall seems to have caught everybody on the [...]

9 December 2007 at 11:48 - Comments

Fire crew aid in penis operation

– Click to enlarge. Only in a small northern town would a man cut a ring of metal from the end of a pipe and put it on his penis. The fact is that the small northern town in this case is Wigan, and it just happens to be the town where I did most of [...]

8 December 2007 at 11:40 - Comments

I am not a shrimp! I am a King Prawn!

My favourite Muppet character – Pépe. Rizzo comes a close second though.

7 December 2007 at 12:34 - Comments

Zen and the joy of free wi-fi.

I was just sitting here, zipping through the English countryside at what must be around 100 miles per hour, in the quiet comfort of a first class train car, sipping complimentary coffee, eating complimentary snacks, happily surfing the net with free wi-fi and thinking how thoroughly civilised it is. Sometimes we just get things right.

7 December 2007 at 12:02 - Comments
I take it all back! Shortly after writing that post it went rather tits up. It came to light that there was ...
7 December 07 at 14:50