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I have just updated to WordPress 2.0, which should only affect things going on in the background, and not the appearance of the blog. One improvement in the user-interface: the comments screen now remembers who you are again (I found the source of that problem in the process of upgrading). Vowe – that . . . → Read More: Updated to WordPress 2.0 …and the current temperature. Our pond this morning We went out last night to visit friends in Wiesbaden. Not a bit of snow in sight. When we set off back home at about 23:00 hrs it was snowing. Being Christmas, there weren’t many crews out clearing the roads – we decided to come back on the . . . → Read More: Lots of snow here today Winter has come here too – it has been snowing on and off since Thursday evening, and no sign that it is going to stop soon. We greatly enjoyed our two-week break in Salamanca – despite getting taught at least three forms of past tense (including a good number of irregular verbs in each tense), two forms of the imperative and piles of new words in that time. Which says a lot for the staff and the other students, . . . → Read More: Back from Salamanca Just to say that posting will be slow or non-existent over the next two weeks – we are off to Salamanca again for a second dose of Spanish. The corner of Ruth’s latest work in progress Ruth has taken up patchwork and quilting this year, having played with one or two ideas over the last 25 years or more. Click on the thumbnail above to take you to a page with more information. If you are interested in learning more . . . → Read More: Ruth’s quilting We have three cupboards containing around 530 CDs in our lounge and several further shelves of DVDs. The cupboards are almost full, and for some time I have been toying with the idea of using a Mac Mini as a music- and video-server and banishing the CD and DVD collections to the cellar. . . . → Read More: Honey – I’ve shrunk the CDs Philips CDD 461 Today we scrapped our trusty Philips CDD 461 CD drive. We bought it on 6th August 1992 for 898 DM – an external single speed CD drive (a CD reader only, there weren’t CD writers on the consumer market at that time). Since we stopped using it attached to . . . → Read More: Bye bye CDD 461 Sevens Shopping Mall on the Düsseldorfer Kö We visited Düsseldorf yesterday. To see some of the bands performing in the 13th Düsseldorfer Jazz Rally. We always to try to go to the Idstein Jazz Festival (22 – 24 July, this year), and comparing the two, I’d say the Düsseldorfer Jazz Rally is the . . . → Read More: Düsseldorfer Jazz Rally |
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