Month: June 2002

Wow, I’m impressed. I’ve used the pixology service quite a few times now to get digital photos produced on photographic paper and the service has always been pretty good. I send a set through on Tuesday (passport photos as well as some other snaps) and the photos arrived through the post this morning. Such a fast turnaround is so impressive. Unfortunately, my passport photos are too dark so I’m going to have to lighten them up before I send them off again.

Having gathered together all the information I need to fill in my tax return for 2001/02 online – mostly I’ve been waiting for the Inland Revenue to send me a username for the site – I was somewhat concerned to read that this facility has been withdrawn “whilst we are carrying out system assurance checks” (apparently users could view other users tax returns – doh!). Guess I’ll have to wait until they fix the problem.

I gained a desk toy! Susie left me her Peekin’ Zeke. My new adopted friend is the 4th one down, the rainbow one. Apparently Peekin’ Zeke’s nose and hands can even hold onto your notes and memos. I’ll have to give that a try later, once he’s settled in.

It’s been a lovely, sunny day today and it was really great to get a text message from Jeremy to say that he and Kirsty were going to head down to the beach for a barbeque and did we want to join them. We’d already got some food sorted out as we’d planned to have one over the weekend anyways, and so we went and joined them and we spent a very pleasant afternoon feasting ourselves on chicken wings, sausages, lamb kebabs etc whilst drinking a couple of beers. Just what Sunday afternoons are made for.

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On Friday evening we went on a bit of a pub crawl as Susie’s leaving do. But this was no ordinary pub crawl – we played pub golf. We had a 9 pub golf course and we had a set drink and amount to do in every pub. To make par we had to drink what was on the card. To get a birdie we had to drink double the quantity, an eagle was double the quantity and a single spirit, an albatross was double the quantity and a double spirit and a hole in one was an albatross downed in one!

Our course and drinks were:

• The Grand Hotel – Long Island Ice Tea or other cocktail – Par 3
• The Walkabout Lodge – Pint – Par 5
• The Fiddlers Elbow – Half – Par 4
• The Cricketers – Half – Par 4
• The Bath Arms – Pint – Par 5
• The Font and Firkin – Half – Par 3
• The Victory – Half – Par 4
• The Western Front – Half – Par 3
• Weatherspoons – Pint – Par 5

We only got as far as the Western Front by closing time, so both Weatherspoons and the club House (The Grand Hotel again) were missed out on. Not a great shame really as we’d all had quite enough to drink by then. Don’t forget to take a look at the photos.