Squirrel plants super walnut tree

A lovely gardening story, not that much squirrel content actually. Now onto the weekend review!

We went to Rye, and it is nice. We mooched around some very very old buildings and shops and things, and had a look inside Henry James' house, and did all the pubs we could find. Had a slightly iffy pint of 1066 in the first two pubs we went to (will be back later with the names I'm sure), and then good pints of Otter in the next two, then on to dinner at a Thai restaurant called Lemongrass. Rye is a pretty sleepy place at the time we started thinking about dinner, everything was shut by 5pm (on the Saturday), we really thought we'd be in the restaurant on our own. We turned up for our table at 7.30 and the place was heaving already. Food was quite good, starters of "waffle baskets" were nice and light and a bit different, then my main of some tofu and beans thing was very good, but the meat in Clare's chicken and cashew was a bit ropey. When it came time to get the bill we were in a hurry, so had to ask our waitress, rather than waiting for them to ask. She said OK, but then just ignored us, when we chased it up again she'd done NOTHING! This meant we missed our train (by seconds), which meant waiting an hour for the next train, and the later train didn't connect with a train at Ashford, there would have been another hour to wait there, so we had to get a cab. I didn't tip in the restaurant, and if I return I won't tip next time. To try and make up for the inconvenience and expense, when I have children they won't tip there either, neither will my children's children.

One more really dull thing, even duller than everything else I post up here. This weekend we EMPTIED THE WASHING BASKET! I'm sure we moved into this place with a full washing basket, and I moved into Clare's place in Stokey with a full washing basket, I thought I'd die without ever getting to the bottom of it. But this weekend we did it! Now we have nowhere to put all these clothes, maybe it's time to ship a load out to the charity shop...

I got an email today:

Assuming that you are not connected with Divine Leisure, are you aware that their phone is cut off and they ignore emails. They appear to have been taking money and not supplying the orders, as has happened in my case. As I can get no response and promises of delivery have not been kept I am about to take legal action against them and against the owners personally. Such activities incur personal and criminal and not just civil corporate liability.

2006 :: Comment / reply

Lots of new things!

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Entertainment&id=1327

Starting with a https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Entertainment&id=1327 grocery list manager for Firefox... it's a weird one, but it might just work, all week I'm in front of the computer thinking about food, this might remind Clare and I of what we need to buy. It might however prompt me to click on things like lemongrass and mangos that are never ever going to get eaten. We have pretty much the same seven meals every week, and I love them, though I know Clare gets bored with soya mince...

Hmm, thought some more, be so much nicer if this ws a collaborative effort, like all these Web2.0 things are these days. Not that I'd want masses of anonymous webmongs updating my shopping list, but I'd really like for Clare and I to both be able to update this form work, and then print it out from home. If we had a printer at home, yeah, getting round to it... maybe this week's job will be finding the driver for the existing printer so we can print? Would really like a scanner again though, I have a stack of old photos that I'd like to put up on Flickr. Not keen on owning a printer though really, it feels like such a scam - they're dead cheap but consumables (ink) are too pricey...

Also, google chat embedded into mail.google.com? What's that all about? Don't think google chat is fully integrated with gmail yet, but right now you can opt to have your chat history archived within gmail, so you can refer to it later. I assume it'll work even though I use the Trillian client instead of google chat itself. UPDATE: yes it does, my fascinating chat with Stu about Vincent Gallo ebaying himself is now saved for posterity...

Also, AAAAHHH, a frozen squirrel fell out of a tree and crashed a car.

2006 :: Comment / reply

Weekend review

Went to International Student House on Friday for a gig, and to a good pub called The Albany, then to Winchester on Saturday to see MJ Hibbet, had a FOUR HOUR journey back from there because of the rail replacement bus service being caught up behind a huge accident on the M3, looked fatal to me... The Railway where Hibbett's gig was is a good venue though, I think it's been recently fixed up, as well as a pool table and a good music room, it has real ales and a nice galleried lounge bar area...



I started my xmas shopping yesterday, I bought everyone bugs and things from edible.com at Selfridges... Then we played a bit of pool in The Defoe and then had a smashing (very hot) meal in Lemongrass.

2003 :: Comment / reply