We went ice skating at Kew Gardens on Sunday with Jeremy and Kirsty. Good fun, great hot chocolate.
The Times Phonetography Challenge
The Times Phonetography Challenge started yesterday. Send in your camera phone pictures of “What does Christmas mean to you?” to 07834 446 922 for fame and fortune (well, chance to win stuff). Disclaimer: I had a hand in parts of this.
Luke had link to
Luke had a link to Make-a-flake which is really quite cute. Send us a link to your favourite creation… my best effort to date is this one.
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had my first experience
I had my first experience of opera on Sunday evening. Richard took me to see Aida at the Brighton Centre performed by the Chisinau National Opera. I enjoyed it, although I hadn’t prepared myself for it being quite so long… I’m not sure if opera is really my thing, but the sound of an orchestra takes some beating and so I suspect we’ll head off to a classical concert at some point.
This card was dropped
This card was dropped through our letterbox a few months ago and I’ve been meaning to scan it ever since… a lovely take off of the Preparing for Emergencies booklet.
More positive consumer news
More positive consumer news… a while ago we switched from our Audi A3 petrol automatic to a manual Honda Civic diesel. (Why? 33mpg to 55mpg, amongst other reason). The Yeomans Honda in Bognor Regis were great, did us a fine deal. Recommended.
At the time we were told the servicing was every 12,000 miles. Turns out from the log book, it’s every 9,000 miles. Ouch. Called Yeomans, even though it was a word of mouth difference, the sales guy, Drew, said yes he remembers saying that, and appologized: it’s 12,000 on petrol, which is where the confusion came it. We figure over the life time of the car we’d end up doing one extra service, so Yeomans put everything right by giving us a free service to make up the difference. So… Yeomans are recommended further for fixing the problem, and they’re top of our list next time we go looking to change vehicle.
Just been out to
Just been out to do a bit more Christmas shopping and stumbled into SheActive, a women only sports shop that recently opened in Brighton. This strikes me as a great idea as normally when looking for cycling gear I struggle to find many women’s options in local stores, and end up ordering from Ground Effect in New Zealand (great kit, just a long way away). I managed to come away only having bought a bag this time, but I’ll be back next time I need some new kit.
The shirt folding video
The
t-shirt folding video is life changing. You can read the instructions that go with it, if you want.
It the run up
It’s the run up to Christmas, and so on Saturday we headed off to the Cite Europe shopping centre in Calais to stock up on cheaper booze (with hundreds of other brits judging by how busy the place was).
We used the Eurotunnel again, and again were impressed with it. The fact that it is less than 5 minutes from the terminal to Cite Europe is pretty handy too and even the return trip only took us about 20 minutes (although you do wonder where they’re taking you as you can see the terminal from the East Car Park).
We bought most of our alcohol from Tesco – using the Superplonk data to work out what the best deals were. We managed to track down enough to keep us going for a while anyways. One thing we noticed was that Tesco’s do an ordering service – we might give that a try next time.
We stopped for lunch in Le Moulin a Biere (getting 10% off because we’d been to Tescos) and then had a good wander around the rest of the shops, and finished off in Carrefour buying some cheese, and a few more bottles of wine.