This weekend was a very enjoyable one! On Saturday, Phil’s parents came up for the day to help us with the garden. They brought with them a variety of shrubs and plants – as well as a couple of trees! – for us to plant in the garden. Although it’s still winter and they’re all…

Ok, I admit it: I enjoyed this week’s episode of Torchwood. I think it was an interesting idea, and it certainly had more of the ‘human element’ than Torchwood of last year (namely, I actually empathised with some of the characters!). There were a few problems with it: Although Torchwood is outside the government /…

“Bought it at the five-and-dime Played ’til my fingers bled It was summer of ’69” So begins the start of “Summer of ’69” by Bryan Adams. Anyway, the reason I mentioned it is because Phil bought me a six-string for Christmas, which you can see in the image on the left. I’ve been learning it…

This weekend has been a fairly quiet one again, but there are a few things worth mentioning: On Saturday afternoon, we went to Orchard Baptist Church to record the very first Focus on Faith podcast! We had a good discussion about the Beatitudes, and I hope and pray that it will be useful for people…

As some of you may know, I have a little bit of a history with Torchwood… suffice it to say, I thought the last series was a bit rubbish. If I was grading it as a school piece, I would probably put: “Could try harder” (Of course, that’s not really a grade, but still…) —…

This weekend was pretty quiet. Phil wasn’t feeling well last week, and she still wasn’t 100%, so she didn’t feel like doing too much. She is feeling much better now though, so I guess taking it easy must have had a positive effect! (On a slightly related note, one other bit of good news is…

I’ve been having a few car problems recently: In early December last year, one of the fuel injectors went. This wasn’t a hugely expensive operation to fix, but it still cost money which could have been used elsewhere! Yesterday, I got into the car and tried to start it. It stalled straight away, so I…

For Christmas I bought Phil a Logitech Harmony 525 Universal Remote Control (now there’s a mouthful!). I first used it last Tuesday, but it’s taken me until today to actually get it to work, via various support calls and so on! I don’t really want to bore you with the details, but just get to…

Just a quick update on what’s been happening over the past few days. On Saturday we did some decorating, which was fun! We’d already taken down the wallpaper last Thursday evening, so on Saturday I spent most of the day painting. The little room now looks much better! – the wallpaper previously, although it only…

… I know I shouldn’t, but I found this absolutely hilarious!