Hah. In “my room” (a/k/a the study) in our house I have a piano, two guitars, and an effects pedal. The piano has the ability to record things, and it also has the ability to pretend to be a bass. The effects pedal has a little drum machine on it. Can you see where this…

Well, I think the time has finally come to replace our aging TV. I’m not entirely sure how old it is, it was my Nan’s old TV before she died, but I’m guessing it’s around 10-15 years old. Anyway, now seems like the right time to be buying a TV: High-Definition (HD) is becoming common,…

Quick weekend update: it was pretty standard, except for Friday night. 21 was cancelled because of the snow (apparently all the schools were closed around so it made sense). Luckily for us that meant we were able to go to the Ashiana – for the second time in a week! – with Dan, Tom and…

Not new mattress troubles (although, for what it’s worth, the new mattress is very comfortable now). The problem is with the old mattress. We don’t have a big enough car to take it to the rubbish tip – we’ve just had it in the spare room for the past few months. Anyway, we eventually got…

The problem with ‘snow’ is that it’s too easy to pun with! So, once again, apologies for the terrible pun. The snow has rather caused problems here, as you might imagine. I’ve been working from home today: I did try to get to Chelmsford, but the conditions were too poor. I think the roads had…

Well, it’s now official 2010 (and has been for a few days now), so I’d like to take this opportunity to wish all my loyal blog readers a happy new year! (All my unloyal blog readers can take a running jump :p) It’s been a good new year for us. We came back home on…

The Christmas break has been pretty good so far! I am currently writing this from Phil’s parents’ house. We came down here after the carol service at Fordham on Christmas Eve. We had a pretty safe journey – it was well above freezing (well, above freezing anyway) so there was no ice to worry about.…

I’ve closed off my Facebook Photo Uploader project for the foreseeable future. The main reason is that I just don’t have the time to develop it to make it actually work! The problems started a few months ago, Facebook introduced an album ID format which used Strings rather than Longs (essentially they could contain non-numeric…

On Thursday night last week it snowed pretty heavily. This meant that I wasn’t able to get into work on Friday, but I was able to do some work from home. And we had another party on Friday night! Fortunately it didn’t involve driving so we were able to walk across town. We went round…

It’s that time of year again! On Friday night we had the 21 Christmas party. It went down pretty well, think all the kids had a good time. Then on Saturday we did a bit of Christmas shopping (nearly all done now… so close to the end!) In the evening we went round to James…