Folkestone mushroom magic

A very satisfying and self sufficient weekend, off to a secret woodland location to hunt for wild mushrooms. I was expecting a nice walk, an empty basket, and a pub lunch, but no! In about four hours of tramping we managed to bag a brace of chanterelles, several boletes, half a basket of "wood hedgehogs", and a lone Cep (AKA porcini). This was the prize of our expedition leader Dom, and it was quite a mighty specemin. We'd optimistically packed the Trangia, oil, garlic and herbs, so we cooked them up there and then, a fantastic vege feast, very Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall. We're off again in a couple, but I can't tell you where in case you harvest them first. Hmm, were we harvesting or were we scrumping?

Saturday night we thought we'd try Shanel's Brasserie again, out of a sense of supporting a new restaurant in the area, but they were fully booked. A good sign, our work here is done, for now. There's a new wine bar opening up a couple of doors along from Timothy's Wine Bar, and possibly another new venture in town as Mustang's is up for sale, 70k for a ten year lease. Maybe following Lanterns recent coup of getting Biffy Clyro in, the could expand into it, make some kind of super venue?

Went to Gate 28 in the end, pleassant enough but yet again their only draught beer was off. Today was sleepy for me but energetic for Clare, she went horseriding with Dean, his birthday treat.

Our sea view is now much improved, possibly by Michael Howard. He was outside our house last Friday, opening a new care home just across the street, and at about the same time a slightly crabby tree that was obscuring our view of the sea was cut down. Nice one Mike!

Saw the tackiest boy racer accoutrement ever last week - revolving hubcaps, so the car looks like it's wheels are spinning away while at a standstill. If these are yours, be ashamed, be very ashamed.

Turtuous journey home, diverted to Victoria, so 73ed it. Very slow.

pauly :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

Our mushrooms

mushrooms!

That's wood hedgehogs on the left, then some chanterelles, then a lone porcini at the back, then some boletes on the right.

pauly :: 20 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

they arent even real hedgehogs---how disappointing

anyway, just wondering about your iPAQ...which model did you get? i recall u saying u got the more expensive one...why did u do that?

also, does it come with PDA version of MS Office? i.e. say you ran Outlook at work, could you get the iPAQ to synchronise with that?

mOOMINTRUDE :: 20 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

Yes, you can

I have done, though I don't really use Outlook at work even, so I don't synchronise often... the more expensive one has quite a lot more memory, and some security features (which I'm not really using)...

This picture's the one I got.

pauly :: 21 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

do u think

it's worth spending the extra on the more expensive one?

things i will be using it for:
1. listening to music
2. using calendar
3. maybe use for emails etc
4. anything else that's good.
5. it will need to be very secure as potentially will have confidential work stuff on.

mOOMINTRUDE :: 21 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

If it needs to be secure, it has to be that one

This one is the professional one, the others don't have the security measures on... Not sure of the full extent of them, but it does have a finger print reader and password / pin number combo... pretty cool, though I've not actually used it.

Not used mine for listening to music yet either, as I have the IPOD. I would say just get one, and forget about the money.

pauly :: 21 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

one last question i wanted to check

the ipaqs all work on the 802.11b standard...if i have a wireless router at home which runs the 802.11g standard, will it work on that?

...i suppose this is more of a question on routers really...the router is backwards compatible, but im wondering if i have my router up and running, connecting to another computer via 802.11g, will the router also be able to deal with the ipaq at the same time?

mOOMINTRUDE :: 21 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

Apparently yes

That was one of the things I asked, and it seems to be all OK. Maybe check again somewhere else though, as it's only the IPAQ that I'm using wirelessly here.

Do you have that 4Mb ADSL service then?

pauly :: 22 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

also

i'm at work and this website doesnt load the pages properly. basically there's just plain text and hardly any colour on the page....it seems to have really basic html. wot do u think the problem could be?

mOOMINTRUDE :: 22 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

There's not a lot of colour on the page

The style sheet (CSS) is loaded from the popex server, so if your work has blocked popex, that's why... The page is still readable and that isn't it? Even if it doesn't look as nice...

pauly :: 22 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

oh bollocks

that would be it then...they have blocked popex. whilst im on that subject, what's the alternative URL i can use? (as in the IP stylee address that i used to use?)

mOOMINTRUDE :: 22 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

Never mind, at least you were the 2000th message left on this weblog

195.69.152.41 is the popex server, that might work... beast.popex.com nl.popex.com de.popex.com fr.popex.com es.popex.com se.popex.com are other alternatives...

pauly :: 22 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply

nah, not yet

as our local exchange hasnt got the bulldog kit in it yet. do have their 1mbps service though although im starting to wonder wot the point is as it's difficult finding anywhere which ever uploads at that speed...all the p2p stuff never really kicks past 30-40 mbps

cheers for advice on router...i will be relying on it!

mOOMINTRUDE :: 22 Sep :: 2004 :: Comment / reply