Category Archives: General

Lunn Poly

In around 4 hours, Hannah and I are jumping in the car and setting off for a getaway in Somerset. We’re staying at http://www.helpfulholidays.com/property.asp?ref=E187&year=2006 It looks lovely and I can’t wait to get away to somewhere where people don’t kick your car door in:

Counties I’ve visited

I haven’t blogged in ages, so I went to createablogentry.com I’ve visited the counties in yellow.Which counties have you visited? made by marnanelmap reproduced from Ordnance Survey map databy permission of the Ordnance Survey.© Crown copyright 2001.

Firefox Live Bookmarks

A colleague was stumped by how to add a Live Bookmark for Guido’s blog in Firefox. It turns out that to do that, the page offering the feed must have an alternate link in its header. The software that artima.com uses for its weblogs doesn’t do that, so I’ve hacked together an ugly little script… Read More »

Wedding Photographers

Well, I have to say I almost jumped for joy when I read this article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/4633562.stm That’s 400 customers who now have a better chance of a decent wedding photograph service. Elegante SUCK so badly it’s untrue. Still, we’re now getting 6 substandard storybooks out of them for nothing instead of paying for 3. We… Read More »

All things nano

Well, what a week. We finally had somebody in on Friday to replace our boiler. Much daydreaming of a warm house and hot baths was done, only for our hopes to be dashed when there was a fault with the boiler. The NEW boiler, mark you. Grumph. Other aspects of our life have been rather… Read More »

When a child is born

At 12:44pm on Tuesday 13th December Carl and Susie became the first of my friends to become parents. Bethan Ruth Ebrey was 6lb 9oz at birth and after a lot of heart-ache on her parents’ part and somersaults on her part she came out naturally and is a beatiful, healthy baby girl. I think Carl… Read More »

What the Phluid?

Phluid, where is Robbie G? This girl wants to know so bad she wrote it on her chest. Phluid

Vegetarian/Vegan Restaurant in Birmingham

Finally, we’ve discovered a decent vegan restaurant in relatively nearby. Sibila’s Restaraunt is an organic vegetarian restaurant and is attached to a health spa, Body and Being. The restaurant is a short walk from Brindley Place in Birmingham, and overlooks one of the canals. It’s quite small, with a modern, but quite intimate, feel to… Read More »

Ebuyer Suck

The saga of ebuyer is a long and bitter one. I placed an order for a Seagate Barracuda 80Gb 7200rpm UDMA100 Hard Drive from ebuyer on Sunday 14th August for deliver BY Thursday 18th August. It did not arrive on the 18th and when I tried to phone customer services at 16.35 I was put… Read More »