Can you smell smoke?

So last night i was sitting watching telly when i got a sniff of smoke... so i went round the house smelling each room to find the source of the smoke. at first i thought it was the oven or maybe even Jo's hair straighteners. the smell got more intense but there was nothing in the house so i opened the front door and was greeted by this scene!















the restaurant next door to us is being renovated and has had several large skips out the back of it over the last few months - last night their skip went up in flames!
my first reaction was to call the restaurant (its on speed dial) in hindsight it probably would've been better to call the fire brigade first....
my next call was 999.















after a few minutes they had it all sorted and the drama was over.....















So that was a little bit of excitement for our otherwise standard Saturday evening!

New TV

we got a new TV yesterday.... 36" widescreen




i was joking with my boss that it would look great in my front room, if only i could get it up the stairs!
he said, "its yours for £50"
needless to say, we (lloyd and I) struggled with it up to the flat....

Its flippin huge!!!! i had to get Jo to pose next to it so you can get an idea of the scale!

Grow Your Own

We worked on this film, it was edited on our 'quipment

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Well here goes.....

nearest book to me is.... MAC OS X Support essentials V10.4

"Anyone who logs in to your computer via SSH can run applications remotely, and secure FTP is automatically enabled when you enable remote login."

awesome stuff....

i tag:
Mercy on my soul


oh, this has been my 100th post!

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raising money

Please help us raise loads of money for EIKON....

You may know that i'm not the most active person there is so a 15Km walk will be quite a challenge for me! its not the 15 peaks but hey its a start. please be really generous!!!

it's been a while

Today Jo and i went shopping - now normally i don't like shopping with Jo, She doesn't let me spend money and she doesn't like looking at all the gadgets and games! I equally hate clothes shopping, so often our shopping trips have a couple of arguments as we each walk round the shops we dislike.
But today was different, we were shopping for presents! we love getting presents for people, it brings us both an enormous sense of well being (isn't that a line in a song...) The present we were buying today was perhaps the best type to get - 3 years and up! It's Elijah Kinsleys Birthday on Monday and we always like getting him things.

We visited toys R us, it was fantastic - i felt like a little kid again, trying out everything i could see. At one point i got lost, Jo went off somewhere and i couldn't find her - so that made me feel all the more like a small child!

we found just the right thing! i won't spoil the surprise... its well cool though, Jo has tried it out in the house already!

other than that things are going swimmingly around here, we had great weekend at roots, it was great to see lots of friends and genreally feel like we were making a difference!


Enjoy the rest of your weekend, i'll do my best to write some more on here....

i'll try to do my best

I will try and write a blog entry this weekend