Category: Ramblings

    Another great weekend

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    Saturday was spent laying concrete at my mum’s (that would be Bob and me) in the hot sun – at least we had a mixer this time (good job too, we used 1 tonne of ballast!). Got most of it done now, just a little bit more to do next weekend. Mum fed us too – woop, woop! Sunday I went to London with Lisa and the girls (Carys and Kira). Was a lovely day wandering about, visiting The Clink and SeaLife. Kira winds her mum up by saying “I’m hers” – here’s the pictorial proof: Heh… EDIT: I changed […]

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    Why you should NEVER ask me what I’m thinking…

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    So, there I was one morning, just woken up, layinh there grinning to myself. “What are you thinking?” asked Lisa, no doubt thinking I’d come out with some fluffy comment. “Well,” I began, “I was just thinking about painting monkeys – not in a watercolour, but using a roller..do you think purple or yellow monkeys would look best?” Personally, I prefer the idea of purple monkeys, but that’s just me… On another occasion, I decided an army of blue ducks would be a cool thing to have – Lisa thought they’d look better with tin hats 😐

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    Nag, nag, nag…

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    Even Bu’er is nagging me to update (does this mean she’s blogged recently?) Been a great week – Monday in the office, Tuesday & Wednesday testing down in (not so) sunny Bournemouth – this was the first time in all the years I’ve been going down there to test at FR Aviation that it’s not been beautiful weather. Shame really, I’ve just had some modifications done to the test rig and wanted some nice pictures for the new website (which will be going live in the next week or so to replace our static html site). I’m still getting the […]

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    Nokia N900

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    I’ve had this phone for nearly 8 months now and I love it – the only thing that could improve it is if the keyboard hinged upwards when opened (like the N97). Other than that, it’s great! a full Linux operating system in a pocket sized package 🙂 A couple of weeks back, I installed Android onto the SD card and finally got around to booting into that last night while Lisa was cooking dinner (and what a dinner it was: roast lamb, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots, peas, gravy and yorkshire puddings – I can honestly say I […]

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    Life, the universe and Lisa…

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    Even Lisa is telling me to blog more… So, been a great week – seen lots of Lisa, as well as seeing her frequently! 😉 work has been good – we’re getting into our really busy period so the days fly by 🙂 Got a load of onsite work coming up now, and my test rig has been modified so it’s a lot easier to use and adjust for the various heights of the jacks – Bournemouth next week, plus Stansted, then Prestwick (probably) the week after. Still waiting to hear if we’ve got the job testing over in Slovenia […]

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    It’s (bacon roll-less) Friday!

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    Payday, halfday – start of the weekend 🙂 I like Fridays 🙂 Unfortunately, as Lisa isn’t working (although she was in for 20 minutes or so), it means I don’t get a bacon roll from her 🙁 *sigh* I’ll have to pop to the B&Q burger van soon – I’m wasting away with hunger… A LOL for Friday (courtesy of B3ta): A couple of years ago, I was at a mate’s funeral. It wasn’t a happy occasion; he’d hit a tree, and because he was divorced and his firm kept no records of his ex or kids, they hadn’t got […]

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