We managed to survive yesterdays flooding, although Sonia’s journey back from Hull that normally takes 40 min took 5hrs 30 mins yesterday after numerous road closures and traffic chaos.

Pictures above courtesy of www.msh.co.uk

I was privileged to be invited to the first test flights of Matthew’s helicopter. I couldn’t resist taking the camera along…and be sure to read the full story for exclusive video footage of the crash!

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Following on from our efforts to be green, I am currently involved in two fights.

1 – To replace my overflowing home made wooden composter I ordered two large compost bins on 14th March that are yet to turn up.

2 – I also changed our electricity/gas tariff with Scottish Power to their ‘Green Energy H20′ power option. This means they will buy the same amount of energy I use from Hydro sources. However, switching to this has revoked my ‘online account’ and they now want to send me paper bills again. So my fight is to get them to change their billing procedures so that I can have green power and ‘paperless’ bills. Apparently I am the first person to spot their stupidity and they are looking into it and will keep me updated.

On a more positive note, all lights in the house with the exception of 2 that we rarely use are now energy saving bulbs using 1/5th of the power of the others

Royal Mint are estimating that £65 million worth of one penny coins have gone missing since 1971. That’s 6.5 billion coins that are no longer in circulation! I’m guessing that the one I can see on my desk right now is in circulation, but what about the 87 sat in a money jar?

Do you need a photographer in driffield 

By request I have put a few more pictures of Woody on the photo’s page – enjoy.

Very quick post – Sonia and I have been together 12 years today and Life’s Good

What a night – we could quite possibly be the only people ever to smuggle 4 pork pies into a theatre when we went to watch the excellent ‘The Producers’ at the Palace Theatre, Manchester last night. Great night though including some extra stuff from Peter Kay when there was a power cut [Read more →]

Part of my being green(er) mission – this week it is Electricity and Gas [Read more →]

Today sees the start of my ‘being green(er)’mission. To make it clear, I am not a cardigan wearing hippy who pees on his compost heap and only eats what I can grow on my own land. Over the last couple of years we have made an effort to be greener and now might be the time to step it up and write about it so others might do that same. [Read more →]

It’s one thing getting a call to a 9 year old server refusing to start, but quite another when you discover it has 9 years of dust on it. From the pictures below is there any wonder it didn’t work.

The answer is you virtualise it

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