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Crocus overload – University of Leicester botanic garden

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Oh what a beautiful morning oh what a glorious day…And Google Spellcheck

With apologise to Rogers and Hammerstein it is a lovely morning. I have finally shaken my bug off and feel in full fettle and raring to go – but go where? well I was going to visit the Simon Roberts exhibition at Bradford with my friend David, but… Continue reading →

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Benylin has just become my guilty little treat – well whilst my throat is so inflamed.

Day 6 of the stomach bug/virus/generally yuck feeling. I have now got a sore throat and so have resorted to taking Benylin cough medicine. I have to say I really didn’t realise that these things were so appealing. In truth I feel fine in myself bu… Continue reading →

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Stock Doves – some of the prettiest birds in the garden at the moment

So all yesterday wasn’t spent watching zombie movies – no I actually managed to do a little photography. I caught these two stock doves in the garden. Of the Columbidae that visit our garden these are the prettiest. Now I now this is a hopeless an… Continue reading →

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Does it get any better Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead – the way to recover

Well I am going to patent this as the therapy that works. The way to get over a stomach bug Watch Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead. Simply the best.It doesn’t matter that in virtually every point that matters they are the same movie – they are jus… Continue reading →

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A day for printing and scouting locations

A damp a drizzly day outside so what to do with myself? Well catch up on work that I have put on the back burner for the past few days since my virus/stomach/cold episode. So I have started to print out this years submission for the RPS Internatio… Continue reading →

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Root Canal work is a real pain – especially with a stomach bug

Well I had root canal work done yesterday on a touch and it appears to have gone very well. The only problem was that I was still suffering from my stomach upset which has made me feel quite weak. However, I seem to be on the mend from both. Simon… Continue reading →

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Drivers the babel fish of computing and why windows vista needs watching

To people of a certain age the babel fish is one of the many wonderful inventions of Douglas Adams to a younger generation it probably is the service that you use to translate different languages. In computing the device driver is a the babel fish… Continue reading →

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Struck down with a tummy bug

Yesterday was a wash out. I picked up some sort of bug and spent most of the day feel pretty sorry for myself. Fortunately I have the best nursing staff on hand to bring me back to full health. I feel a bit better today – however have got an appoi… Continue reading →

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Feet starting to hurt!!!

Well we have just about finished at this years Focus on Imaging – and my feet hurt. What have I learnt? The truth is that it is too early to draw any firm conclusions other than this year is going to be all about printing. This means paper, calibr… Continue reading →

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