I think this is the fastest that I’ve had photos uploaded after a holiday.
You can see them in my Flickr account. The big-ass boat right at the end is the new Queen Victoria (quite apt having visited Osbourne House that very day), the latest Cunard boat. The reason it’s so blurry is because we were quite far away so I had to use the digital zoom as well as the optical one on my camera.
All the more reason to look into a DSLR.
It’s finally week 15 of semester 2 at UniS. Which means it’s end of year show (EOYS). It’s looking like an awesome lineup and generally it’s going to be a fantastic couple of days. Wednesday it’s Hed Kandi, Thursday it’s Zane Lowe (the day I’m working so VERY excited about that) and Friday day it’s Thorpe Park during the day and then Vernon Kay in the evening. Then sleep all day on Saturday (although if I’m up to it I might head up to London to pick up a certain person’s birthday present - chances are I’ll do it the weekend after though).
Then, on Sunday Emma and I are motoring down to Portsmouth, catching the ferry across to the Isle of Wight for two days. As of now we don’t have any plans, but Em is (supposed to be) doing some Googling for stuff to do. I want to go to Osbourne House as I haven’t been there for at least ten years. Who knows where else we’ll go? Maybe the needles, maybe Black Gang Chine (or at least what’s left of it).
Needless to say I plan to take lots of photos. But that’s nothing new now, is it?
Last summer was a shocker. “What summer?” I hear you cry. Exactly. Now, one side of me loved last year, as it meant that I had no hayfever whatsoever.
However, I can already feel the pollen taking effect. My eyes are itchy. I’m sneezing more than I usually do. So a bad sign for the hayfever, but it’s a good sign for the nice hot summer that we missed out on last year. The summer before was awesome: lots of opportunities for barbeques, drinking in the evenings etc. etc.
I really hope that it stays like this.
Dislaimer: I take no responsibility for jinxing the weather.
I love bank holidays. Not because I don’t have to go to work (I’m really enjoying my job at the moment) but because Emma and I always do something. Since she works at weekends, we don’t often get to spend a lot of time doing stuff together so we make sure that we defintely do something on Bank holidays.
Today was no different. Up early (kind of) we went to The Vyne, a 16th century house near Basingstoke, then drive back to The Good Intent, a really nice pub in Puttenham, then off to Puttenham common for a walk.
Was a really hot day, and we’re both tired. But it was a really really nice day. Roll on the summer holiday!
Update: Just added the photos to Flickr
I was looking up Thorpe Park on t’internet (I’m going there in a few weeks time) and was looking at how to get there on Google Maps.
The last time I went there was in October and it seemed quite big, area wise. But having looked on Google Maps, it looks really small.
It’s been just over a week now, but last Tuesday I finally passed my driving test!! It’s only taken me about 9 years to do so. I’m going down to Portsmouth tomorrow to test drive a car (a Peugeot 307 to be precise). It all depends on a couple of financial things, but with any luck I’ll be driving it back up to Guildford on Sunday night.
I’ve just upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress (2.5 for those interested). No problems with it so far. New dashboard looks nice. Might take a little while to find my way around it as a few things have changed, but not so bad so far.
Ok, this is more of an ego stroking post than anything else. I just wanted to say that I’m very impressed with myself for going to the gym 3 times in the past 7 days. I think that 3 times a week is enough at the moment and with the other things that I do should keep me busy. I’m tempted to go at a weekend too, but not sure when, as I go on both Friday and Monday and I don’t really want to hurt myself. Maybe Saturday afternoon would be a good time, as I’m generally quite bored whilst Emma’s at work. I’ll try going this Saturday and see how I feel.
I’ve also got a two week “check” with one of the guys from the gym, so I get to find out how much weight I’ve lost (I don’t trust the scales at home!)
I think I say this every so often, but this week I’m definately going to make a concerted effort to start on this project that I’ve been wanting to do for ages. It’s going to be quite a major undertaking as it’s going to involve a few web services. I was thinking about doing it in RoR but I think I’m going to stick with what I know best (i.e. PHP).
I’ve had a database schema in my head now for a while, so I need to get that into a database (or at least the first implementation of it) and then actually start working on the site. There’s going to be a fair bit going on in the background as well, since there’s quite a lot of stuff like video encoding (which is where the web services will come in as I plan to use AWS to do a lot of the hardcore stuff). But that will come later.
The thing that bothers me is that the site is very heavily based on User Generated Content (seems to be a bit of a buzzword at the moment), but it’s content that I can’t put together myself. Don’t want to give too much away at this point, but it involves music and unsigned bands. Now, I’m not a band, so I can’t put stuff up. If anyone has any thoughts about how best to do this, then please please let me know.
Yup, today is my second session at the gym. Last week I had a check up which said I was overweight (but not obese woot!) which was not unexpected (I am a little on the podgy front). I have to admit I’m quite looking forward to starting to work out again. Lets hope that I can keep this going this time. I’m doing some Bupa scheme which says that I’m supposed to go at least twice a week. Since I have to walk past the gym on my way to and from work, I’m constantly reminded that I should be going and Godalming’s not exactly far from Guildford so weekends aren’t out of the question.
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