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York is great, a lot like Canterbury, but seemingly with more pubs. Our hotel was the birth place of Guy Fawkes, and had sloping floors and four poster beds, proper historic. It practically butts up to the cathedral, not sure you can tell from my photos just how damn close we were, but I could have leaned out of the window and touched it. All the pubs push their historical angle at you, but they're nearly all great. Shopping was good here too, though surprisingly everything closes a bit early in the day; by 5pm you're meant to have stopped shopping and starting thinking about dinner.
Apart from the great pubs and restaurants of York, we went in the best shop ever]] Rafi's Spice Box. It sells uh, SPICES, but you can also buy a complete meal kit, where they dish out just the right proportions of the essential flavour giving bits and seal it up in a bag. Here's how they say it:
Choose from 27 regional varieties and the spices, garlic, chillies and onions will be carefully prepared to your taste. So there is no fuss – no chopping onions, ginger or garlic and definitely no oil is needed. All that is required is to simmer it with some water for 5 minutes and then add raw meat, fish or vegetables and cook out. Each pack will recommend adding 1 kilogram of ingredients so it will serve between 4 and 6 people.
We got a couple of these, one Jalfrezi and one Pathia, got them home and just made them up today. You just add some water, some tomatoes, and a kilo of meat to each one (in our case a kilo of mixed veg) and follow the instructions. They were great, we had a portion of each for tea and have saved up enough for another four meals each in the freezer. You can order online, which is great! Authenticish curry but without needing to buy hundreds of different spices that you will hardly get around to using before they start to go stale.
We really appreciated being so close to the cathedral on Sunday morning when all the bells went off. I tried to catch this on the camera, but my battery ran out, check out a bit though:
We will definitely go back to York, it's quite easy to get to from London for a weekend. Now I just have to think about how I get to London in that bit before the weekend and we're sorted.
The drive back from York was not really fun. We managed to shift the car right round to the front of the hotel this time (blocking traffic for a bit, but HEY, they were only tourists too so they didn't dare get cross), and I found my way out of the city eventually. It's a long way from York back to Folkestone, the M1 is mostly roadworks still so our google maps directed us via the A1. Mostly we listened to Radio 2 on the way home, I quite enjoyed a feature on Jeremy Vine's show about how everyone who buys bottled water is scum, but it was a bit wishy washy and didn't go far enough and gave too much airtime to people who disagree with my point of view. On this subject, this from this week's popbitch:
Justin Timberlake had 7000 bottles of Fiji
Water delivered to O2 for his gigs.
Thanks also for the link to www.cheatneutral.com/about - carbon offsetting is nonsense, I did it once and I feel like a sucker. Just don't unneccessarily do journeys and burn down forests etc, and please don't buy bottle water if you could drink tap water.
We detoured a bit to find some lunch in St Ives, luckily the one outside Cambridge so not really that much of a detour. Weather was up and down all the way home, quite grim at times. The best sunshine we saw for the whole period was when we got home to Folkestone, lovely.
No disasters at home really; I always imagine there will be a fire or flood or burglary while I'm away. The flat upstairs did bust a pipe, but somehow it didn't affect us. Builders are in today / tomorrow to finally do the earthquake repairs.
Back at work now, I just about remembered the way here, but I've completely forgotten what it is that I do.
21 Nov :: 2007 :: Comment / reply
Feb9
This is where it's going though, I'll be keeping an eye all day...
http://www.clarkeology.com/blog/upload/Capture7.jpg security camera view of our lounge
Set it up in a bit of a hurry, just threw the camera into the corner, and it needs a lot of focussing etc to get a better picture from it, ah well... Got the motion detecting and emailing working on the camera now, though not fully adjusted, it's a bit sensitive. Found out (thanks again Itchypaws that you can't use gmail as the SMTP server for sending from this camera, as the camera doesn't support secure sending and gmail insists on it. Found another though, dug out my password and that and using my ISP. So, as soon as there's movement in our front room, I should get a 1meg 5 second video attachment of a windows media file in my inbox. It's very exciting.
Oh yeah people that I've tried to describe where the telly's going to go, hopefully now you can see. That's the old telly on the floor, and that's an old kitchen cupboard next to it which is making do as a TV cabinet for now. For the last 18 months, and also still for now, yeah I know.
Still sick with cold, but too excited about the telly to be bothered by it. I am at work today btw, hence monitoring the TV delivery action by remote camera.
Having problems with Sky again, so we've got no Freesat yet, we're getting all the kit from a third party supplier (Simpsons of Hythe), but the card has to come from Sky. They say they've sent it, but it's not arrive - this is the same problem we had when we tried to get Sky+ last year...
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Mar1
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Using Microsoft's andti-spyware has been rolled out at work now, and while it doesn't think Firefox is Spyware (that's probably a fake screenshot) it is coming up with a lot of warnings, including some about MSIE itself every day, including warning me against trying to set my own homepage, and it's setting MSIE as the default browser. Annoying! UPDATE: Perhaps that's what's stopped GMail from working here too.
My new image processing thing is coming along, think I've got enough bandwidth allowance to just put it all live, but I'm not keen to have the pages spidered yet. Had a few probs with ImageMagick, I made it delete all my original images, that's not good... to resize an image to a size if it's bigger than that size already, here's the command:
convert -resize 480x320> original.jpg new.jpg
DER who forgot to escape that > symbol then? Should have been
convert -resize '480x320>' 'original.jpg' 'new.jpg'
that sorts out my image and folder names with blanks in too...
BASTARD OF THE DAY: The post office, Clare paid 6.95 to send a set of keys to her folks guaranteeing they'd be there by 9 this morning, as they're going round to do some painting for us on their day off. A card was put through their door at 9.30 saying "we tried to deliver" etc, though they didn't ring the doorbell. So now we have to do more of the painting ourselves, and as my lovely girl pointed out yesterday we really need the next few weekends for packing up and cleaning in London, ready for the big move...
No excitement on the way into work today.
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