This weekend was a long one for us – we took Friday off work to do some Christmas shopping! It was actually quite a successful day – we managed to get most of our Christmas shopping done, although we do still have a few bits and pieces being delivered (hopefully before Christmas!). On Friday evening…

In a bored moment, I decided to start writing a Battleships game. The bored moment turned into a slightly longer bored moment… and so here it is. It’s fairly easy to play – click on a ship, select whether it should be horizontal / vertical, and then click on your board to add it in.…

This weekend was fairly busy! On Saturday morning Philippa’s parents came up to help us out with various things we had to do. We had quite a productive day: we broke up the old radiator cover and took it to the tip, we also got rid of my old computer desk (it’s been replaced by…

Last week, someone from Solar Home rang up and asked if we were interested in Solar Powered heating. Anyway, as we are interested in Solar heating, we had someone come round to visit yesterday. It wasn’t the best of evenings… He arrived at 7:00PM– early enough to prevent us having dinner, meaning we’d have to…

It’s been a busy old couple of days, this weekend! On Saturday we had Sarah and Jon round for lunch, which was nice as we hadn’t seen them in ages! In the afternoon we went into town to do a bit of shopping, and then in the evening we went to the Ipswich Corn Exchange…

… try saying that three times fast! We went to a concert this evening at Ipswich Corn Exchange. The Ipswich Orchestral Society were playing: Elgar’s Overture “In the South” (Alassio), Max Bruch’s 1st Violin Concerto, and Anton Bruckner’s 4th Symphony “Romantic”. We really enjoyed it! The violin concerto was absolutely beautiful. The soloist, Matthew Trusler,…

Yesterday evening was a little strange. I got back home to find Philippa standing outside the house saying “I can’t get in – the door won’t open!” Apparently she couldn’t open the door using her key. I tried with mine, and couldn’t open it either! We tried for about five minutes to get in, but…

We must do something about global warming. The consequences are far too dire for us to keep ignoring it!

I’ve been thinking about writing a quick post about internet security recently, and this article by Stephen Fry finally made me write it. We are living in dangerous times, so to speak – keeping your computer free of viruses or any such malware is becoming more difficult. We also have an army of scammers and…

On Saturday we went down to a family friend’s 70th birthday party. My parents came round at about 10:30, and shortly afterwards some friends of theirs arrived to drive us the relatively straightforward journey down to (near) Heathrow. Unfortunately, the north circular was rather busy so it took us a bit longer than it should…