What can I say… it rained this afternoon and I don’t think I have ever got so wet before. When I got back from the school run, we had just finished getting changed, when the power went out. The rain … Continue reading
Britsh Telecom have teamed up with Ancestry.co.uk to host historical phone books. Initially they are mainly from London and the surrounding area. Still, I have been able to find some of my ancesters in the 1960’s and 1970’s. This confirms … Continue reading
I have been having increasing problems with spam emails recently and so decided to do something about it. I have installed Spam Assassin and integrated it with my mailserver (Hmailserver). It does a resonable job of identifying most of the … Continue reading
We had the afternoon free of the school run today and so we went up to Hobgoblin to have a look at guitars for Jo. Jo has a classical guitar that she has played for many years and was considering … Continue reading
I had a collection to make today that was about 2 minutes away from CadburyWorld in Bournville. So, to make the best of the day we all went to CadburyWorld; it was about a 2 hour drive, so we couldn’t … Continue reading
About a month ago, Mum’s computer crashed just before we went on holiday. I managed to coax it back into life, but the disc was failing. Last Monday, I replaced the hard disc, but after copying that data over the … Continue reading
I bought tickets today for the signing of Raymond E. Feist‘s new book, Into a Dark Realm. On the evening of 25th September, Raymond E. Feist will be at Ottakar’s Milton Keynes store to talk about and sign his new … Continue reading
I spent some time about a week ago entering the information that my mum had found out for the Cakebread line of my family. Today, I have got around to updating my online databases with the new information.
A few month’s ago I wrote to the funeral directors for my great great grandparents [link]. I had hoped that they would be able to help me with burial records and cleaning and repairing the memorial. They did write back … Continue reading
I have added weather icons to some of the earlier blogs and will try to remember to add one each time I post from now on. This morning when we got up, it was raining quite heavily, but now it … Continue reading
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