Life's about experiences. These are mine.
For some reason we forgot that we were on holiday and booked up a 18 mile bike ride for today around the island of Crete. OK not around all of it obviously but it felt it at the time. So we met up with our over enthusiastic Austrian tour guide Alex at 8am where we …
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While we had spent the large part of yesterday aboard the boat it was actually moored all day at Corfu. The appeal of this particular cruise is that it stops at a different location every day with the exception of today which is spent all at sea. This meant that we had all day to …
Seems to have been a long time coming but we are finally away on what is our first ever two week holiday without the boys. One is now safely back at university and the other is left at home working. This year we had decided to take a cruise around the Greek islands staring in …
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Reading has the Reading festival. Leeds has the Leeds Festival (although to be fair that is just the Reading Festival on tour). Guildford has Guilfest and so it would be logical to assume that Weyfest is held in Weybridge. It’s not, it’s held in Tilford just outside of Farnham in Surrey and I have no …
Reading has been my home since 1988 when I moved here for my first job. In the intervening years there have been many changes and almost all have had a positive impact on the town (no, it’s still not a city). One of the great things about Reading is the river Thames and Kennet and …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHjssdNNzP0 So the above advert for Marmite is currently causing much angst in the UK at present as protesters have been complaining to the ASA that the advert trivialises the work of animal rights campaigners. The job of an advertising campaign is to get coverage and with a product that is already marketed as something …
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25 years ago I graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic with a degree in Computer Science. That’s me on the left on the steps of the Guildhall looking suitably excited about collecting my degree along with my friends Dirk and Andy. Wind forward 25 years to last Tuesday and I was back on the same steps but …
At the beginning of the year Amazon introduced in the US a new feature called “AutoRip” which does pretty much what it says on the tin in that it automatically creates an MP3 version of any CDs or vinyl that you bought though Amazon. These tracks are then available for you to play through either Amazon’s cloud player …
It’s been a long time coming but we finally got to see Elvis Costello last night. We had initially been scheduled to see him play May 2012 but the gig was cancelled due to Costello losing his voice. When it was finally rescheduled it was for 13 months later! Given that the last time I …
Everyone that sees male members of our family remarks how alike we all are and we are, I guess. So I decided to put together a picture of five generations of the Thompson line to see if you could discern the similarities. The result is above (you can click on the image for a larger …