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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I happened to be searching Google Maps for churches near Colchester today (I’m not looking for a new church, just wanted to check how the Fordham site was doing 🙂 and came across something rather bizarre. As you can see, Google seems to think “Places of Worship” fall under the same category as… “Bus Station”.…

When I got back home this evening, I found a couple of pieces of junk mail on the mat. One was from Virgin Media, sending through their usual two-weekly advert for broadband. Seriously, does anyone know how one can get removed from their spammy junk mail? Virgin Media, if you’re reading: IF I DIDN’T WANT…

… that’s actually a line from “Spaceballs” (The Movie), I thought I should probably point that out just in case you missed it. (It is a rather short quote, after all). This weekend has been mainly very hot. So hot in fact, that we didn’t really do much over the weekend! on Friday evening we…