View from the Potting Shed

The kitchen at Kadesh, now finally empty.
This has been a good weekend for support and help from friends, and thanks to them Kadesh is now empty and ready for a new boiler (next week) and handover (the following week).
Last week as I began to dismantle the furniture at Kadesh Jane packed up the crockery and […]

On Sunday 25 February 1988 my parents appeared on the popular Sunday evening television programme Highway, hosted by former Goon Sir Harry Secombe.
A couple of weeks ago I was sorting out our videos in preparation for moving and came across the video tape with the recorded show on it. I popped it into the video […]

I’m all for not discriminating people on account of their age, but surely InterVideo are taking it a little too far.
I clicked on the InterVideo WinDVD version 5 link on my work PC this afternoon and this being the first time I’d done this was invited to register the product. I agreed and the […]

I need to cancel one of our TV Licences — the one for Kadesh to be exact. At the moment both Jane and I have one each. We’ll be left with Jane’s one, which is only fair as she watches more TV than I do.
Here’s my favourite bit of “small print” on the back […]

I spotted this on Yellow’s blog: a quiz called Which colour represents you?
Needless to say Yellow turned out to be yellow. My results are as follows:
You scored as Purple.
Purple is powerful, just like you. You are a very devoted person that likes to get things finished and you do this by balancing out fun […]

Today we’ve been dismantling furniture in Kadesh. I thought that you might like to see the three (reverse) stages of bunk beds.

Stage one: Bunk beds.

Stage two: Bunk beds being dismantled.

Stage three: A pile of wood.

I got up early this morning so that I could get a couple of hours of web development in before Jane rose and we had to get involved in Operation Clear Kadesh.
Which was a nice plan … but it has just taken me 90 minutes to work out why I couldn’t login to my new […]