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Weather forecast: Central, Tayside & Fife
From the Met Office website:Weather forecast: Central, Tayside & FifeSaturday:Early morning frost soon melting away to leave a fine dry day with some bright or sunny spells. Although it will be a...
View ArticleStag Do Number 2, April 22nd
Some of you will have read about my plans for stag do number 1, an afternoon of beer in Sheffield.Plans are now in place for stag do number 2, a day of culture in London.Meet at 10:30 on April 22nd in...
View ArticleStag Do Number 1, Saturday 14th -- instructions
The time is rolling around for stag do number 1, an afternoon of beer in Sheffield, so here are your instructions.We'll meet at The Sheffield Tap, the pub that's built into Sheffield Station, at around...
View ArticleStag day two, tomorrow
Probable timetable tomorrow:10:30 - Meet in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern12:30 - leave and walk to Borough Market for lunch13:30 - go to The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret14:30 - go...
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That wedding
So yesterday, julia_winolj and I got married.Julia and I would like to thank a whole bunch of people, people who have grasped what kind of people we are and what we were trying to achieve.The staff at...
View ArticleMy LJ is ten years old.
Today, my LJ is ten years old. It was created on 2002/05/09 at 12:49:42 BST. I am user number 554349.I have made 3396 Journal Entries (so this is the 3397th), received 19640 comments and posted 16,079...
View ArticleWedding Photographs now available
Official wedding photographs are now online and available for ordering at http://www.sheffieldweddingphotographer.com/ -- ask me for password.
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Surfeit of Steves
Today we had a visit from Steve (Guttering Guy), who repaired/replaced some of our guttering.This means that in the last few weeks we've dealt with Steve (Electrician), Steve (Plasterer) and Steve...
View ArticleBoiled Beef and Carrots
Yesterday I made boiled beef and carrots, and today we ate it.After she'd finished eating I said to Julia "I suppose you're familiar with the song."It turns out she's never heard of the song. Imagine...
View ArticleI filled in a Feedback Form on a shop's website
I filled in a Feedback Form on a shop's website as follows:My dear coffee vendors, what a pleasure it is to find a feedback form on your website.As you're aware, you supply coffee in a take-away cup, a...
View ArticleTumblr
Years after the cool kids did it, I've created a Tumblr account -- if you think I should be following you over there, please let me know what usernames I should be following.
View ArticleReady for Christmas
It's a little while since I updated on LJ but seeing as it's you lot I'll make the effort.Julia's father arrived here yesterday evening and has generally providing assistance as we move the furniture...
View ArticleMy brother Richard.
Some of you will have met my brother Richard. He was the skinny sweary one on Top Table at the wedding; he was the one still dancing after the music had stopped at TCASU, a convention in Ireland in...
View ArticleHow Richard is
New readers start here -- On Tuesday, it rather looked like my brother was more-than-usually unwell, and Mother was sure that he wouldn't be lasting much longer.Things have changed somewhat in the last...
View ArticleDon't facilitate spammers
In case I haven't made it obvious before -- If you have my email address, don't pass it on to financial services companies in order that they can email me telling me that you recommend them. It won't...
View ArticleText Editors
This is a question about what you use when you want to edit a file that contains text.View Poll: Text Editors[ Context ]
View ArticlePopery
I suppose it's time to roll out this icon once more.Who would you like as the next pope? non-serious answers only, please. And I was voted in last time (hence the icon), so someone other than me.
View ArticleHSBC generating useless unwanted bits of paper.
A few years ago, those clever chaps at HSBC gave me the option of no longer receiving paper statements in the post for the business account, instead relying on just the PDFs from the website, so that...
View ArticleFree stuff!
Julia and I have a new food processor, which means we are retiring the one we inherited from Julia's mother.The old food processor (Moulinex Masterchef type 663) comprises a big solid electric...
View ArticleCelebrity Come-Dine-With-Me
I watched an antique traveller, from a band,Who seemed too stoned and legless, vast of trunk, Try his dessert. It wasn't as he'd planned(A shattered soufflé, dried and burnt, half sunk);With wrinkled...
View ArticleSupport request to Network Solutions, submitted via their help-and-support...
This is a complaint: It should be fielded and handled as such.I have several domains in the .UK space.The UK Registrar, Nominet UK, has a period of six months before a .UK domain expires, during which...
View ArticleTwenty-four tweets to Network Solutions
I've just posted the following tweets to @sguod:Apologies in advance to users who aren't interested in the next twenty-four tweets -- feel free to fast-forward as required.(01/24) I think it's fair not...
View ArticleWomen Bishops in the Church of England
Warmest congratulations to the Church of England, which has recognised the validity of the ministry of women in the role of bishop.It seems to me that, having recognised the validity of the ministry of...
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