I might have mentioned recently that we were having our garden treated by GreenThumb. They came on the Friday before we went on holiday (15th August) and sprayed the garden with a weedkiller, and then a fertiliser (well, the fertiliser was in sort of capsules and not in liquid form, but still). It should be

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Zeth once said that GNU was “a good joke in 1984 but a crap name.” I agree, it’s not the most inspired of names – but nevertheless it seems to have stuck. Still, this time I think whoever picks names for projects has outdone themselves. I found out (from Stephen Fry’s Blog) about “gNewSense“. I

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Last week was fairly uneventful! As I mentioned in my last post, we basically spent the week doing decorating our bedroom. We’d painted the walls last year, but the skirting boards were in dire need of painting (I don’t think they’d been painted in years), and we needed to tidy up a few things, i.e.

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We were away pretty much all of last week. On Saturday we travelled by train all the way up to Settle to stay with Philippa’s parents for a few days. We were staying in a B&B called the King William the Fourth Guest House. The Guest House itself was very nice – our room was

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Just a quick note to let you know that we will be going on holiday for a week. I might have occasional access to the internet, but probably won’t be updating here for a while, just so you know! I hope the weather is as good as it has been today – it was a

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Apologies for a slightly geeky post, for those of a non-geeky disposition. I’ve just started up a new project on Google Code called PHP Web Proxy. It’s basically an alternate version of the PHProxy script. I set up the hosting because I wanted a centralised version of the script (i.e., I wanted version control), and

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Well, sort of. On Friday night we went round to our next-door-neighbour’s for dinner. We had a lovely evening – we sat outside chatting before dinner, drinking some French liquer (we didn’t realise it beforehand but apparently it was about 45% proof! – I felt a bit woozy after that…) And we had a nice

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Last night I went to see “The Dark Knight” at the cinema with Anne-Marie, Matthew and Ellie. (Hence the ‘Stormy’ – I got a good soaking on the way back home!). I saw the first ‘nu-Batman’ film “Batman Begins” at the cinema a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it – I was expecting

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I’ve been meaning to write something on this topic for a while now, and I think I’ve probably missed the boat, but that’s never stopped me before so why stop now? Petrol prices have been rising steadily since I can remember. However, in the past few months they’ve risen steeply – it now costs well

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It was a rather nice weekend, actually! On Friday night, after work, I headed down to stay with Phil’s parents for the weekend (Phil had already gone down on Thursday, I didn’t leave her at home for the weekend!) After dinner we went out to have a cup of tea with a few friends we

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