And after the snow, the freezing temperatures ( Read more... )

Attention Weather Gods, Snow Deities, Mischievous Pixies of Winter and assorted Meteorological Hobgoblins.

You can stop now, alright?


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So Maude has been disembowelled of her faulty 4GB of Crucial Ballistix RAM which I stuck in her at the beginning of this year, and I have RMA-ed the RAM in the sure and certain hope of a replacement. Unfortunately the replacement will be the same type, which is known for failing quite frequently, so the problem may recur. But I have plugged FiFi ( Read more... )

A-Who-Irons had the following amusing anecdote to relate as we sat and drank our Asda-Value-Teabags tea in Container World yesterday ( Read more... )

Dan Brown remains virgin and untouched, Paris nothwithstanding

Or, "Airports I have Known"

( Part One - Getting There )

Off to Ankh-Morpork Budapest in the morning with The Husband, A, S, G, B and J. We had a meeting a few months ago to decide if we were going to go to France, Spain or Portugal, and we ended up deciding to go to Budapest. Yes, there was alcohol involved.

Another trip for the Dan Brown book!

You know what I hate? The ineluctable inequality of a society based on a rigid class structure and inherited privilege, but that's not relevant right now.

You know what I hate?

( Insert Tinny 'Grande Valse' Tune )

Back from hols. Heatwave. Mosquitos. Earthquake*. Electrical failure. Rain. Delayed flight. Heathrow Airport.

Jolly good fun, all round. As I told The Daughter - never let it be said that we don't take her on adventure holidays!

* yes. really.

Here we are in Italy


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