More Progress!!!

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Nic Hamilton

Somehow, our youngest turned 18 today….how on earth we got to that I don’t know.

For the cake she’d set her heart on one that had her picture on it, the result of too many TV programmes featuring spoilt American princesses I think and something I was deeply sceptical of. But, after looking around the internet a bit and a few short chats with the folks at Caketoppers I was prepared to give it a go and not-so-young-any-more Kay selected a few choice photos for the top of the cake. The cake even arrived in one piece thanks to some pretty simple but very efficient packaging. The photo quality was, I have to say really good…..obviously they’re a bit fainter than “real” photos but the level of detail is really pretty outstanding. Apparently, they actually pass a thin layer of icing through their printer which runs on edible inks! What would Caxton have said, eh?

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Forty!

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Nic Hamilton

Well fancy that!

I never knew that my favourite cartoon strip is almost exactly ten years younger than me. Then again it doesn’t sound quite so exciting now it’s written down.

I don’t know exactly when I started reading it, presumably it was sometime in the seventies, certainly before I went of to University in ’79 and I’ve been a pretty consistent reader ever since, much easier now that I can read it daily on-line. Bizarrely, on the days that I also have a paper copy of the Grauniad I’ll read that version too (just in case it’s different). The politics is sometimes a bit too American to fully understand but the endearing characters keep me coming back.

Happy 40th Doonesbury, long may you continue.

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Fifty

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Nic Hamilton

There were going to be photos like over at LDNP but I’m too busy playing my new Telecaster so you’ll have to settle for Tom Robinson’s Fifty.

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None of the below, actually

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Nic Hamilton

This holiday company, which we’ve happily used several times for villas in Corfu have now thoughtfully asked us which games console we’d like to have in their villas in future.  Apparently there were PS2s there in the past but I can’t I say I remember.  Am I the only one who doesn’t want a games machine in my holiday villa?

I’ve always liked getting away from the TV when on holiday and, whilst on our recent break to France, as usual, I also even enjoyed having (almost) no internet, and I’m a bit of a saddo on internet stuff.  Some of our party (and not just the younger ones) found this almost unbelievable (the lack of t’inter, not my enjoyment of its absence).   Aren’t holidays about getting away from it all?

Seriously, can booking a holiday villa in a quiet corner of Corfu really only me made attractive with a games machine?

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