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Phew! iPhone managed to sync after I rebooted iMac – obviously a gremlin in the iMac stopped it syncing earlier. # @loiclemeur thanks for getting socialthing invite with code seesmic # First update from SocialThing – now off on 20 miler around Cambridge… # @euan Oh yea of little faith 🙂 # great walking day […]
Todays walk in splendid conditions, the first hot weather of the year 🙂 was a good stretch. Totalling about 21 miles with one pint of shandy (Queens Head, Newton) and tea and cakes at The Orchard in Grantchester. Followed by a very quick dip in the river at NRC, I did our first mash using […]
now in sallys favourite tea shop. She is turning into a shopalholic 🙂 # Sallys latest purchase… – photo at http://twitxr.com/geoff/updates/21622 # @SunkIsland I only had it the other day in an Algerian restaurant in. Cambridge…. # Unprotected my updates so I can get a rating at twitterholic, Vain as I am # @stephtara Sorry […]
Firstly a disclaimer – Mia is my eldest sons wife 🙂 so this post might be biased a little 🙂 Mia does the most amazing bookbinding ever (this is NOT bookbinding as the normal person would imagine), in fact, it is more to do with sculpture as in 3D works of art. She produces the […]
Challenge anyone not to laugh at this http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/audio/2008/mar/28/charlotte.green # Welcome to Boni the latest Twitterer # @martinvars better than carrying bales of straw and hay through the house 🙂 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Oh dear whilst trying to increase the display speed of this site by eliminating all the external RSS calls to Friend Feed and Profilactic and then running a speed test The test came up with:- TOTAL_HTML – Congratulations, the total number of HTML files on this page (including the main HTML file) is 2 which […]
Never realised that Gordon Brown and his cronies at 10, Downing Street cared so much about me that they want to follow my tweets. 🙂 and by implication my blog posts too.. Update:- I’m not alone! Currently they have 208 followers and they are following 140 but with only 12 tweets so far. Some way […]
Yesterday, after 3 years of construction, the second phase of the Grand Arcade project in Cambridge opened. The first phase, John Lewis opened in November 2007, the final phase, Cambridge’s new central library is scheduled for October this year. Emily and I were there, taking lots of pictures especially of the Ribbon Acrobat team. The […]
Mayor at opening of grand arcade 3 years after demolition of Robert – photo at http://twitxr.com/geoff/updates/20444 # Grand opening of new apple store in Cambridge. Definitley biggest – photo at http://twitxr.com/geoff/updates/20450 # Crikey genius in apple store was all set to replace my iPhone on the spot! Told him to hold on till I synced […]
Whilst walking in Mill Road Cemetery today with Tony we spied this bat flying around in broad daylight. Hope this doesn’t mean that UK bats have got the dreaded lurgy that is killing all the bats in the USA one of the symptoms being reported was “Within a month, people in the area were calling […]