Author: jane

We spent Saturday afternoon

We spent Saturday afternoon helping Richard’s Godson James celebrate his 4th birthday in the play area at the Ock ‘n’ Dough pub in Wellingborough. We stayed with him and his family overnight, and after the boys had gone to bed, ordered a takeaway from Deans Caribbean Cuisine which was really tasty, and a complete change for me as I think the only Caribbean food I’ve had before has been at the Notting Hill Carnival many years ago. Now I’m going to have to investigate the Caribbean food options in Brighton…

We caught up on

We caught up on a bit of Tivo‘d tv last night, and watched A place in the Sun which was about a lady contemplating the move to Auckland, New Zealand. This was the move that we considered in 2001 and rejected on the grounds that we would be cutting ourselves off from friends and family as a lot of people seemed to be having children at this time and that was really going to prevent most people from visiting us. Also all of our holiday allowance would end up being spent travelling back to the UK to see family and friends and this would stop us making the most of our opportunities in a new country. Interestingly, the lady on the programme also ended up staying in the UK for family reasons.

It got me thinking about our choice, instead of moving to Auckland we moved to Brighton (lots more outdoor living opportunities than Ealing had. although admittedly not the climate that Auckland has) and this has worked out really well for us. I’d still like to go on a long visit to New Zealand to experience it properly though.

Whilst we were in

Whilst we were in Canada last week we picked up a copy of Frequency snowboard magazine, which is along the same lines as The snowboard Journal which we have a subscription for. It’s another beautiful coffee-table type magazine and the issue we have (4.2) includes an interesting “UnResort” guide – heli and cat access etc.

A bad day on the hill is better than a good day at work

We’re just back from 2 weeks in Canada snowboarding in 4 British Columbia resorts (Fernie, Kimberley, Panorama and a bonus day trip to Kicking Horse). Unfortunately, whilst the UK has been having lots of snow (including just about enough to snowboard on in Ashdown Forest) most of the resorts we were at were desperately in need of the white stuff. Fortunately the bases were pretty good, and the grooming guys were working hard to make the best of it. We had a great time, and I can only imagine how good Fernie and Panorama must be when there is powder about.

ve just been reading

I’ve just been reading a thread on Gone Boarding about a study about helmet wearing for boarders and skiers. I don’t have a helmet at the moment for snowboarding, but yet I do wear one when I’m on my mountain bike, both on and off road. Somehow that doesn’t seem to make much sense, I’ve banged my head more often snowboarding than I have on the bike. Maybe that’s another thing I should add to my shopping list next time I’m at a resort.

haven done listing of

I haven’t done a listing of Palm Os apps for a long time… so, it’s time to get them

noted down… On my Sony Clie TH55 I have

  • For email : SnapperMail – I test a load of email applications, and although this is pricey, it works well with IMAP over wireless and even handles attachments pretty well
  • For a week plan of my appointments/todos : WP+ – I’ve used this application for many years and am still very happy with it
  • For secure data : Secret – another application I’ve used for years
  • For storing data : DB – there’s also an editor for use on the desktop
  • For business : Timesheet
  • For backing up : FlyZip – backs up automatically every day and saves it to my memory card
  • For amusement : RocketMania – excellent game, blow up fireworks by linking up the fuse, Falling – a really simple game, thats quite addictive, iSilo – an application to display documents