Author: jane

I have a bit of a reputation in our office as being the Google Queen. Whenever anyone wants to know the answer to some unusual question, I crank up google and mostly find the answer. Because of this, I was asked to find the submission urls for various search engines so we could publicise our new website. I found the submission forms on the big sites, and a few Free submission sites who submit your site to lots of search engines for you for free (we’re not interested in paying for submission at the moment, although we may go down that route later). One such site is Submit Corner who seem to have a lot of search engines listed. I’ve given them a try and we’ll see how we get on.

Further to an earlier blog about the fire at Center Parcs, a BBC news report is saying that the Suffolk Fire Service have released a report which says that contractors working on a roof caused the fire to start, and that it spread too quickly for Center Parcs own Firefighters to deal with it.

Still haven’t heard anything about our weekend in June yet, but seeing as how the BBC report says “Rebuilding work at the centre is likely to take several months to complete” I’m not hopeful about it.

Yesterday I got the strangest text message I’ve ever received. Susie was off playing tourist in London before she goes back to NZ and sent me a message saying “A squirrel just ran up my leg and a pelican just ate a pigeon!”

What a pleasant evening. The weather was fine, with a bit of a breeze and so we decided to go and attend our first Brighton Kite Flyers Fly-in at Stanmer Park. Our first mission was to untangle the lines for the Janus which we did with a little help from Simon, one of the BKF members. Then we got the kite up for it’s first flight this year, and fun it was too. Most of the other kites flying were big single line affairs, and Simon mentioned that we might grow into these kites as they are far more sociable than these complicated multi-line jobs.

When the light failed, we decided to head off in search of a pub serving food, and ended up doing quite a few miles to get to the Shepherd and Dog in Fulking. I’d been here with the guys from work a month or so ago and so knew that it was pretty good. It seems to have had some poor reviews in the past, but we have no complaints. It’s not cheap as pub food goes, but the portions were generous, and the food was tasty.

As we were driving home in the dark along the country lanes Rich realised that it was a clear night and there were lots of stars to be seen, so we did a quick detour via Devil’s Dyke and had a look at them – it was too cold to study them in too much detail.

I got an email today through BNM (a Brighton based new media mailing list) telling me how to fight telemarketers. I thought it was quite clever and amusing, so here’s the link.

The NSPCC are running a Donate-4-Free service on their website. All you have to do is Click on the big green button that says “Click Here” and 4p will be donated to the NSPCC on your behalf. There is a Terms and Conditions notice which says that it will only work if you’re within the EU.

And in other news, the Center Parcs complex that we are meant to be going to for a long weekend in June has been on fire today. It sounds quite serious. From the BBC report

Graham Smith, assistant chief fire officer for Suffolk, said: “It’s a particularly difficult fire to tackle due to the early collapse of some of the structure which has created dangerous conditions for the firefighters.”

Not sure I like the “early collapse of some of the structure” bit at all…

We watched “Sliding Doors” last night – Tivo had recorded it for us at Christmas, and we hadn’t got around to watching it (we’d seen it at the cinema years ago). As the ending credits ran I was really surprised to hear a Dido track on it, and I’d wondered if this had been added to the film later, but a quick scan on imdb soundtracks seems to say it was original. It’s strange how Dido didn’t seem to become well known here until 2 or so years later.