Curses

The ol' laptop needs a new hard disk, it would seem. A couple of
uber-Geeks at work and PC World's resident geeky techie person
couldn't get it working quickly, so the whole thing is in the shop for
a few days.

Phooey.

Which means limited email, no board and no blog. Well, I can post to
my blog via email and can read comments but can't read anyone elses.

Double phooey.

Message from Indy

I'm having a minor computer crisis with the laptop at the moment,
hence my absence from the board and important things like that.

See you all soon, my friends.

*wanders back to laptop holding hammer and wearing a calculating
expression on his face*

Indy's new place...

...or perhaps not. 

Stourhead Lake

View across the lake and bridge toward the Pantheon.

Despite Bristol being fogbound, and thick fog for most of the 30 minute journey, Stourhead was bright sunshine.

Stourhead Garden

 

Fowled-up landing

That's a frozen lake (okay, thin ice admittedly) at Stourhead.

And that's a duck.

He now knows that although you can land on sheet ice, you don't slow down all that quickly and you end up looking a right ducks arse to any one wandering past.

And I didn't even have any bread for him.

Wasted Beauty

Wasted Beauty must be one of the most creative website I have ever seen. The artwork and animations are beautiful and the background music is very subtle.

Take a look, you'll see what I mean.

Frustration

I hate having an idea for a picture in my mind, yet be unable to put pencil to paper and make it real.

There is a fear of it not turning out as I imagine, that I will just be disappointed with it.

Grah.

Boy's toys...

I have a confession to make. My parents (technophobes both) have just bought a Digi-box before I did. Normally, any new technology takes at least five years to filter into their lounge, but apparently this time they beat me to it.

Not to be outdone, and because I found out that 4-More is on FreeView, I bought one too...

I just hope there is something worth watching, because there was damn-all on the five terrestrial channels...

Rain, rain, go away

I think we have just been hit by the remnants of on eof the hurricanes that caused so much havoc on the other side of the Atlantic.

The airport run this morning encountered three floods on the roads. And Velux windows are a great thing until you have to sleep under one when it is raining...

Since there is now no chance of getting back to sleep, I have plenty of time now to catch up with the board and blogs...

Surprises...

My aunt and cousin came over from the US last weekend. Although I wasn't doing the airport run, I couldn't resist heading down to the airport to join my parents in meeting them.

It kinda backfired, though, as I was talked into going home with them for a couple of days. :)

It did give me an hour in the car catching up with my little cuz (not so little now at 24, however...)