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Category: Diary. Posted: 2009-03-25 23:55:43 GMT.
Yet again, I've been slack keeping my blog up to date. I should stop having a blog if I can't be bothered to keep it up to date.
Wednesday 11th March: I can't remember getting up to much today, but I did order two soap dispensers from Homebits. The ones that I'd bought from Homebits for the shower are really good, and the ones that I'd bought from Tesco are pants, so I'll be taking them back for a refund.
Thursday 12th March: After work, I met Julian at Langley station. He'd brought his bike with him, so, after a quick cuppa, we cycled into Datchet for a curry and a few beers.
Friday 13th March: I can't remember much about what I did this evening, but I did put up the two soap holders that I'd bought during the week. Looking at my rawlplugs, I'd bought 100 a few years ago, and there are about a quarter left. Surely I hadn't drilled 75 holes in the walls of my house!
Saturday 14th March: I woke up at about 07:00. I wanted to wash the sheets that I'd collected from Tesco on Wednesday because it looked like good drying weather, but thought I'd better wait until 08:00 before using the washing machine. When I'd collected them on Wednesday, the woman had said that I'd ordered 6 sheets, but I thought she'd just got confused with me buying 3 double-sheets. It turned out that it was me getting confused - I'd bought 3 twin-packs of double-sheets. Ooops!
I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to visit my parents next Sunday, so I took them out for an early Mother's Day meal at Laicram Thai Restaurant in Blackheath. Back at their house, I was sleeping in the living room because their spare room was being worked on. Unfortunately, this meant I had to wait until my father had watched Match of the Day before I could go to sleep. I was surprised to find it quite interesting!
Sunday 15th March: My mother and I went out to the Farmers' Market (I bought some chocolate brownies to take to Sarah's), a kitchen shop (I bought a milk jug and a tea strainer), the station (my mother bought the newspapers, and I bought my train ticket from a very rude man), and a health food shop (my mother bought some humous for Sarah). I had a little something to eat before catching my train, but didn't want to eat too much, because Sarah was cooking me dinner.
I arrived at London Bridge too early, so walked around the station for a bit. There's not much to see, so I decided to start walking towards Sarah's house. I walked past a Pret a Manger, and remembered that Pret a Manger has just signed a deal with Cloud, so, although the shop was closed on a Sunday, I tried to connect to its wireless hotspot, and was able to. Using Google Maps, I found out that it wasn't that far to Sarah's house, so I started walking. Soon afterwards, I realised that it was the City of London's wi-fi hot-spot, not Pret a Manger's!
I arrived a little before Sarah, so went to sit in the park for a bit. With the chocolate brownies and humous, Sarah didn't have to prepare too much for lunch, but a did get a few cups of tea. I wanted to try climbing The Monument, so we walked back towards London Bridge. We stopped off at the library on the way to get some CDs, which meant we arrived at the Monument five minutes after it closed. Oh well, we'll have to go up it when Sarah gets back from Ireland.
We then went to Liverpool Street station to buy Sarah's tickets to Ireland, had a bite to eat at the Wetherspoon pub, and then went to watch The Reader. By the end of the day, my phone had no battery left, and my iPod had very little battery left, so I felt a bit lost during the journey. Fortunately, my father had saved some newspaper cuttings for me, so I read them during the journey.
Monday 16th: I popped into Tesco on the way back home to get a refund for the extra sheets and pillow cases that I'd ordered, and also for the useless soap dispensers. The sheets wasn't a problem, but because I'd bought the soap dispensers over a month ago, Tesco would only exchange them for other goods. I didn't really want to go shopping, but quickly found a few things to exchange for the soap dispensers. Back at home......[Censored].
Wednesday 18th: Knowing we might be in a rush on Saturday, I bought two day returns to Twickenham on the way home today. Believe it or not, I'm going to watch the Calcutta Cup. Having been told on Monday that most of my wine would be off, I decided it was time to get rid of my wine rack, but I still had one bottle left. I knew Elly had bought be a wine holder years ago, so I went through my kitchen cupboards looking for it. I found lots more stuff to give away on Freecycle, and eventually found my wine holder.
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Category: Diary. Posted: 2009-03-25 23:54:32 GMT.
I had got a bit confused with my evenings this week. I'm not sure why, but I thought I was seeing Bird on Friday, so had arranged to see Julian on Thursday. Bird had other plans on Friday, and had thought we were seeing each other on Thursday as we normally do. Fortunately, her plans for tonight had changed, so we met up tonight.
At about five o'clock, I got a text message from First Great Western saying that several trains from Slough to Paddington were cancelled. Before leaving work, I popped over to Gimmer's work to tell him about the cancellations, just in case he was planning on going into London. He wasn't. but he did tell me that we'd discussed going out for beer on Saturday or Sunday. I really am an old fool - I thought we'd arranged to go out for beer on Friday, so had arranged to see my parents on Saturday night and Sarah on Sunday!
Anyway, I cycled home, and gimmered around at home, waiting for Bird to call to let me know she was leaving work. I fancied going somewhere within walking distance, so we went to the Toby. Normally when I meet Bird at a pub, I start a tab at the bar, and then have a beer while waiting for her to arrive. She always gives me jip for this, so, today, I paid cash for my beer, and sat down at a table in the restaurant area. This confused her when she arrived! Unfortunately, Bird wasn't feeling very well, so we didn't stay very long, but still had some nice food and a nice chat. I was feeling pretty tired, so watched Mistresses and the BBC News, and then went to bed at about 11 o'clock.
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Category: Diary. Posted: 2009-03-11 23:35:57 GMT.
I didn't get up to much today, but I did find time to order my sheets from Tesco, watch The Gadget Show while unpacking and ironing all the shirts that I'd bought yesterday, and continue getting my multi-media centre sorted out. For some reason, my main computer read the installation disks OK, but my multi-media centre had problems. I managed to install the display drivers, so the PC would now display on my wide-screen TV, but couldn't install any of the other drivers.
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Category: Diary. Posted: 2009-03-11 23:33:58 GMT.
We woke up fairly early, and I continued tidying and dusting while Sarah went for a run. I also chatted on MSN a bit, and this nice bird from up north sent me some fairly revealing pictures. Sarah had arranged for us to go round to Lucy's place for lunch, which gave us some time to go shopping in Slough once she'd got back from her run. I wanted to buy lots of new shirts so that I can get rid of some of my old shirts and some new sheets so that I can get rid of my old sheets. We locked our bikes up in Slough (Sarah had bought all her locks this time!) and went to BHS. Sarah was in charge of finding shirts, and I was in charge of finding sheets. I couldn't find any sheets that I liked, and Sarah had only found one shirt.
I didn't bother buying the single shirt, so we went to Debenhams instead. Yet again, I couldn't find any sheets that I liked, but Sarah had found a promising selection of shirts. Unfortunately, none was exactly what I wanted, but the shop assistant was very helpful. She told me that I could call up an 0800 number and order them. As an act of desperation, we went into M&S. I still couldn't find any sheets that I liked, but Sarah found 3 multi-packs of exactly the type of shirts that I wanted. Top lass!
Back at home, we had enough time to pour some milk into an empty milk container, before going to see Lucy. We stopped off at Budgens on the way, and started arguing about whether cheese was healthy or not. I assumed that Sarah was just saying it was unhealthy because it's got a lot of calories, but it turned out later that she was right ("yes dear"). The queue was quite long, so I joined the queue, while Sarah went to find some breadsticks. She found something similar, gave them to me, and then walked away, leaving me to pay! I soon whinged about this when I joined her outside the shop!
We got a bit lost getting to Lucy's house, but got there eventually. I was very impressed that she could show us her pictures on her Wii. I obviously haven't read the manual enough, because she said that all I have to do is insert an SD card into the Wii. Job done! Anyway, it turned out that Sarah had misread Lucy's text message and she had "plenty of milk for tea", not "no milk for tea".
Back at home, I turned on my Wii to see whether I could view my pictures, but both my cameras have xD cards, not SD cards, so I couldn't view my pictures. Anyway, we played on the Wii for a bit (I was quite a bit younger than I was on Wednesday night!), and had a pizza delivered, before Sarah cycled up to the station. I tried to find some new sheets on Amazon, but there were far too many to choose from. I tried Argos, but it hardly had any in stock, so I eventually gave up and found some suitable sheets on Tesco.com.
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Category: Diary. Posted: 2009-03-11 23:32:21 GMT.
I spent the first part of the day updating my blog, and then spent the rest of the day vacuuming and cleaning the house. During the day, I also popped out to get a few things from Budgens, post some things to Mel, and get an application form for a Post Office credit card. I'm sure I could have applied on-line, but I thought I'd give my local post office some commission. I don't know why, but, on the way back home, I went to have a look at a notice on the door of my local café, which I'd never been to before. Its lease wasn't being renewed, but it's going to move to new premises. These premises are those currently occupied by Langley Hardware. I've been there quite a few times recently, and spent lots of money there when I first moved to Langley. It's a brilliant little shop - it's a shame that it's closing down. I would have thought that DIY shops would do well in a recession, but obviously not.
Anyway, Sarah arrived at about 7PM, gave me the organic soya mince that I'd asked her to buy, and we cycled into Slough. We had a few problems locking our bikes up, because Sarah left one of her locks at my place, but we managed it eventually. We were going to go to The Punjabi Touch, but there was a private party in there, so we walked towards the Dragon Chef. I wasn't feeling adventurous enough to try something new, but Sarah really fancied trying So Asia, so I relented, and we went in. It's a pretty good restaurant, and offers Indian and Chinese all-you-can-eat in one restaurant. It seemed very strange having sweet-and-sour Chicken on pillau rice. I'm glad we tried it out - I certainly will be going back.
After eating, we went to the cinema to watch Slum Dog Millionaire. Ignoring the occasional "continuity error", it was a brilliant film. If only the presenter of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" could pronounce "millionaire" properly! It finished at about 23:15, so we cycled back to my place and had a quick cuppa, instead of going for a sneaky pint.
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Category: Useful Information. Posted: 2009-03-11 23:31:21 GMT.
According to today's edition of Money Box, Nationwide is going to start charging 0.8% commission on its Visa credit and debit cards when they're used outside the EU. This still compares well with the majority of banks and building societies that charge about 2.8%, but it's a lot more than the 0% that attracted me to Nationwide in the first place. The only card that now charges 0% worldwide is the Post Office Mastercard.
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Category: Useful Information. Posted: 2009-03-07 10:58:25 GMT.
According to Complete UK Hit Singles 1952 - 2006, this single was released in 1985. It was in the UK Top 40 for 5 weeks, and got as high as 14 in the chart.
The book says "UK football club formed in Liverpool in 1878 with records released to coincide with appearances in FA Cup finals". Amusingly, it has only ever released two records. The second record was "All Together Now" in 1995.
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