The time has come to write about what we got up to on holiday. The slight problem with that is, (1) I can’t actually remember everything; (2) we went on a lot of walks which – while they were nice – aren’t necessarily good to write about. So, um, here we go. We set off…

I’m back from holiday! I would say, “We’re back” but Phil has a hen night to attend in London tonight, so unfortunately she can’t return until tomorrow. The holiday was great – very relaxing! I won’t go into details here, but I shall post a full report with reviews and photos at a later date…

Last night, Philippa and I went to La Tasca on North Hill to celebrate my birthday 🙂 La Tasca is a Spanish Tapas bar / restaurant. I’d never been to a Tapas restaurant before, but I really enjoyed it! I’d definitely recommend it to anyone if they want a place to eat out in Colchester…

… you shouldn’t be. Let me elaborate. Some of you may know, I am not a huge fan of our good friend across the pond (pond = Atlantic Ocean, if you’re not up to speed with British slang…) I disagree on a pretty fundamental level with some of the things he has said and done,…

It’s fairly unusual that I make a “The Weekend” post on a Tuesday – normally it’s Mondays! But still. The weekend is now far enough away that I can’t actually remember what I did in much detail. On Saturday, Rich came round for dinner in the evening, and then stayed the night and came to…

There has been a slightly disturbing trend recently. Firstly, I hear Ronin Keating’s version of “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls. Then, just now, on the radio I heard a very familiar song come on: “Don’t Stop Me Now”, by Queen. Except it wasn’t performed by Queen, it was McFly. Nothing particularly wrong with that…

Well, it’s been almost a year since I migrated to Linux. I’d experimented with Linux in the past, but I’d always gone back to Windows fairly soon after! So, how has the year gone? What are the good and the bad points? Well, I don’t really have time to do more than a quick review.…

Well, it’s that time of the week again! Yep, another “The Weekend” post 🙂 On Friday night, we didn’t do very much at all. On Saturday, we did quite a lot … our furniture from Homebase arrived (yay!). So I spent a couple of hours putting it up. Both items (a bookshelf and a cupboard)…

There’s one thing about Linux I don’t like. In Linux, you’ve got two big graphical desktop environments — one is called Gnome, and the other is called KDE (there are others, but those are probably the biggest at the moment). This is all good, because it gives people a greater choice. If you prefer the…

I’ve categorised this post as a “the weekend” post, although actually I think you already know most of it 🙂 On Saturday, we had a new hi-fi arrive 🙂 I’d ordered it the previous week in town. It’s comprised of a Marantz amplifier and CD player, and a set of speakers from Monitor Audio. Although…