My Nike Air trainers have finally reached the end of their life after oh, I dunno, ABOUT 8 YEARS!!! They were bought in a footlocker in New York in 1999 during a trip to see the first of the final trilogy of Star Wars movies – The Phantom Menace -which…
Theme Switch (temporary!)
Out at mum’s just now on her old Windows ’98 machine using Internet Explorer 6 and just noticed my usual fancy theme wasn’t working so switched to this much simpler one for a wee while – until I can get the other one sorted. Quite nice and simple this one though…
Office outing V2.0
This time it was just me – went the same route as with the guys a Wednesday or so back and stopped off to see mum – she was in this time 🙂 Glass o’ water and a chocolate square – it’s what all the best athletes take – and…
Office outing
Four of us from the office managed to get our collective butts in gear and get out for a bike ride this evening straight after work. The route we followed was basically this one with a bit of a detour in Balerno to steal some home baking from mum’s (she…
Weekend of eating out
A belated mother’s day treat on Saturday found us and mum at The Tower for lunch. Delicious food all round as expected! After that there was no need for any evening meal other than some maltesers in the cinema as we watched Premonition followed by some Toast when we got…
Wow – its all gone quiet
Hey wow – since we’ve ended our self-imposed TV embargo I’ve not been posting so much – is it because we’re watching endless hours of TV – no – well mostly… As with our Heroes catch up the previous weekend we managed to get through 4 episodes of Lost and…
Eric Ate Dynamite, Good Bye Eric
What cryptic headline have we got today Bruce? Well its the mnemonic used for remembering the strings on a guitar (non-bass) from lowest to hightest (pitch) Why are you telling us this? Well I have just had a mostly guitar themed birthday including an acoustic guitar, digital tuning gadget thingummy,…
Back to the grind
After two weeks off over Christmas and New Year, it’s back to work for me and Lorraine. Probably not as hard for us as for Sandie and Paul going back to work after honeymooning is Oz for the last 4 weeks – getting back to Edinburgh at about 10pm on…
Sandie and Paul's wedding gallery online
Some pics from us on the gallery here. Hopefully add some more as I get the pictures emailed to me. If you guys get a chance to read this on hols then hope you have a great time and look forward to catching up in the new year! blm
Why I'm off work tomorrow!
Why? It’s Sandie and Paul’s big day – ie they are getting married – followed by a quick dinner and then a swift taxi to the airport to whisk them off to Oz for 4 weeks! Just to wish them all the best for their big day. Lorraine and I…