Grumpy old man

I had problems yesterday. I appear to have had a senior moment when sending some paperwork to the planning officer as I sent the email but not the data. I tried every which way to ask Virgin Media about when I was due to be upgraded and struck out. In the end, I sent a complaint with a list of all my travails and hope I get some sort of reply.

We went out last evening to the Union Rooms, a sort of up market pub. To be honest, it's not my sort of place, too noisy even when there is no noise (if you see what I mean). Food was cheap and edible but not great. I don't want to go there again.

Denise was over the moon with her new laptop, at least I got that correct.

What a diference..........

.......... a day makes.

I spent most of yesterday under the impression that it was Tuesday. I have no idea what happened to Tuesday, I appear to have done a days work and some work on Denise's laptop and even done some posting here with my Nokia N800 but it's just a blur. I am still sleeping very deeply and finding it difficult to wake most mornings. Fred came around yesterday and we spent a pleasant evening watching a bit of TV. Davina McCall on 'Who do you think you are' being the main item watched. Interesting but fairly bland I thought. She must have been overjoyed to find such important and worthy ancestors but there was very little hard work involved and, as a hardened researcher, those are the bits I like the best.

Small, but beautifuly marked.

This is somewhat of a test to check the capabilities of my Nokia N800.

The camera isn't terribly hi res but it works fine and the WiFi link is not fully in place yet so it's a bit slow.

The original posting was sent from the Nokia but I have since tarted it up on my PC.

Pussy time

Came down this morning to find our sisters both cuddled up on the same chair. This is very rare so I committed it to electronics for posterity.

Huzza! I think I have learnt enough about Mediawiki to close the loophole and open it up to genuine users again. It's not that straightforward as the whole thing is essentially run from a batch file that is run on each access to the site. I mean each and every access, every page you visit. This makes it very responsive but means you have to know the syntax and commands to do anything. Because it is a GNU general public licence, the help files are very technical and can be a bit scarce as well. Anyway, I have taken a chance and freed it up again with access restricted to members only as far as all write capabilities are concerned.

Mauve Monday

Not bad enough to be blue.

Hazel still not fit and stayed home today. I had a busy day but felt workish when I got home so.............. I went out and spent a couple of hours working on janis and have managed to run in the mains cable for the fridge. The DC will follow asap.

"Suits you sir!"

Hazel not well enough to travel down into deepest Cornwall so we made our hat trick and spent the morning with Samuel at home and see below.

Arm twisted and taken to Tesco today to buy a new black suit for the wedding. I saw several not black suits I quite fancied but no, it had to be a black one. I managed to successfully push for a wesket as well so that was a small victory. Biggest complaint was the pink tie I have had foisted upon me, I hate pink!

Samuel was on top form today, had a lot of fun in the shop and was able to be cheeky without being offensive, a good portent for the future one hopes.

I spent the late afternoon and early evening working on janis and I managed to install the fridge mountings and the new number plates. I also got somewhat wet, but that's another story.

oooh that smarts!

Being hit on the head by an inflatable plastic hammer, that is. Samuel has been given one and is currently having a lot of fun hitting his favorite adults. I managed to unroll and lay the new carpet today with a little help from Keane, Lulus six year old nephew. He was closer to the floor than me and he placed the underlay pads much easier than I could. Hazel is still not well, she couldn't see Trish yesterday and we didn't go to Exeter this evening either. We only need to miss St Meryn tomorrow for the hat trick.