Got myself a new laptop few days ago. HP Pavillion DV6920 with blu-ray drive. Am so far very pleased with it, apart from Windows Vista which is still a let down despite having little expectation after reading rave of poor reviews about the OS. I’m still in the process of getting used to the keyboard, [...]

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Unbelievable. W is watching the BBC version of “Pride and Prejudice”, again! Lately the telly has been showing this rather odd “Lost in Austen” series, which then got her to start watching the “Pride and Prejudice” DVD she bought just months ago again. Think I better go to bed quite soon.

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Uploaded some photos of our trip up to Scotland last week. Drove all the way from Reading to Isle of Skye, covered 1,800 miles in total during our 10-day trip. Beautiful highlands, yet Scotland in our opinion is so under-rated. The scenery around Glen Coe was particularly captivating. And we get to see some [...]

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This has got to be my greatest acquisition for my fish tank. For months my fish tank has been plagued by hairy brown algae. So unsightly was the algae after a long enough time that we had to take the gravel out to scrape away the algae. But even then the result was not too [...]

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The freewheel on my bike was worn out and needed replacing. It was worn out by the bicycle chain, which I’ve not replaced after using it for more than 2 and a half years. Initially I thought only the bicycle chain needed replacing, as I could see the chain floating on the front chainring, likely [...]

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