Life's about experiences. These are mine.
2012 has been an interesting year for the Thompson family, principally because it has brought us into contact with many areas of the public sector but, mainly and I have to say regrettably, the NHS and the police. This involved my trip to the nurse early in the year, one major operation, a colonoscopy, an assault and a mugging – …
Last concert of 2012 last night when we went to see Duke Special at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Throwing caution to the wind we elected to drive up and park at the Westfield shopping centre which is just five minutes walk from the venue. Of course, this being just five days from Christmas that was a …
I was very sad to learn today that astronomer Patrick Moore has passed away. Most people, I suspect, will remember him for introducing several generations to star gazing through his very popular The Sky at Night programme which he presented for more than fifty years. I, however, will remember him for a series of children’s books …
One of the great things about the Internet is that it allows new ideas to be quickly built and got into the hands of the public without having to spend huge amounts of cash. This has allowed countless number of people to become entrepreneurs even if only in a very small way. And now it …
As some will already know we have been having our kitchen re-done. We have lived in this house for over 15 years now and haven’t touched the kitchen in all that time so it was probably long overdue. Initially we had intended on only doing the kitchen until our very own version of Kirsty Allsop …
I didn’t read the full terms and conditions. I felt the summary was all I needed to know!
We’re looking at hiring a “man with a van” type service to help clear out some stuff before having some work done in our kitchen and I was taken by the service level options offered by one: Luxury (You drink tea, WE work) Typical (We work together and drink tea together) Budget (We drink tea, …
So I am currently away on a short break in Copenhagen. Over the last couple of weeks I have been avidly been checking the weather situation on my iPhone app. Until a few days ago it was predicting sunshine for the two days but the closer we got to the time of departure the worse …