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  • A Christmas party and a concert…

    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day: we broke up the old radiator cover and took it to the tip, we also got rid of my old computer desk (it’s been replaced by…

  • Salespeople

    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…

  • Entertaining and being entertained

    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…

  • Elgar, Bruch and Bruckner…

    … 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,…

  • Locked locks

    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…

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

  • Staying Safe on the Internet

    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…

  • 70th birthday parties

    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…

  • Cockney Classical Music

    I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a routine by Bill Bailey where he looks at the influence of cockney music on the output of classical composers. If not, you can watch it on YouTube — it’s definitely worth seeing, particularly if you like classical music! (Plus, the rest of what I am about to…

  • Fairly quiet…

    Sorry that I haven’t updated much over the past few days… it’s all been fairly quiet really! Nothing much has happened here… On Saturday we did a bit of shopping during the day, in the evening we went round to a work colleague of Philippa’s for dinner. On Sunday we went to church in the…