Two weeks ago it started snowing – it hasn’t stopped (for long) since. The snow is piled up everywhere and as you can see, it started snowing again when we went out for a walk this afternoon. The snow on our roof has found it’s way inside since it started piling up and . . . → Read More: Still snowing…
|
|||||
|
Ruth got a phone call from T-Com (the local PTT) on Friday – our regular 6-monthly applications for a DSL line have born fruit and we can now have a -1 Mbit/s- 384 kbits/s connection. Other locations can get 3 Mbit/s, but even -one Mbit/s- 384 kbit/s is much faster than ISDN and the . . . → Read More: Schmitten moves into the 20th Century If things look a little different at the moment, it is because I’m upgrading to WordPress 1.5 – normal service will be resumed as soon as I’ve mastered the new style sheets. Until then, you may have major problems navigating using Microsoft Explorer. You can help yourself in the interim by using a . . . → Read More: Upgrading We had thunder and lightning last night, after a couple of days of torrential rain, so we were a bit surprised to discover a good 10 cm of snow on the ground this morning. Above are a couple of views of nearby houses in the woods behind our house, taken with a camera-phone . . . → Read More: We’ve got snow We have deleted our commented links page. A lot of them were out of date and maintaining them required quite a high effort, due to the way they were originally formatted. All our links, even the obscure ones like these are now on del.icio.us. The only exceptions: we have moved the lists of . . . → Read More: Commented links now on del.icio.us Over Christmas, it rained and was soggy under foot. Yesterday it went colder and snowed. Today we decided to go for a walk in the woods on the other side of the main road, a few hundred metres away. . . . → Read More: Walk in the woods … No, I’m not talking about the latest and greatest sub-notebook PC, I’m talking about a top of the range sewing machine. (And, yes, we are back online. We took a two week break to visit some friends in Javea and then spent the rest of the time in Extremadura and Andalusia – . . . → Read More: Windows, colour touch screen, CD-drive, USB, integrated internet access… Elderly men, who walked less than 1/4 mile per day were found to be nearly twice as likely to develop dementia as those who managed two miles a day, an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports today. As a reasonable amount of exercise (say 1/2 hr per day) . . . → Read More: Walking helps prevent dementia After the Hudson visit here last week, we got home last Tuesday to find that the pond had been finished off – plant bags around the sunny side to provide shade for the plastic liner and the edging stones all replaced. So last weekend we went off the the local garden center and bought plants for the edge. Continue reading Pond finished, fish happy again Ruth’s sister, Anne, and family (almost all the family – Katie, the oldest daughter – is still in the USA for another week) were here for a long weekend. The weather was foul, but I see that the UK weather this summer has also been awful. In between showers, we did manage to . . . → Read More: Visit from Brighton |
|
||||
|
Copyright © 2000 - 2012 John & Ruth Keys, all rights reserved |
|||||
