Building the van, rebuilding the laptop

One of my favourite Christmas presents this year was a "build your own" VW campervan.  I've jokingly said that I'd like one some day to tour around Europe.  Well, now I have one sitting in my lounge which I can look at every evening! Opposing my success with the van, is the regression with my...

Laptop Struggling

My laptop is over 4 years old now, purchased from Novatech after my Compaq died and I did rather well on the insurance.  It has served me very nicely, running most of my development software and the long list of essential utilities I have now amassed.  During my time at Xerox, it went through a...

Turnover a new leaf?

Continuing in the cookery theme I used up the rest of the puff pastry last night to make some delightful Apple Turnovers. The rest of the leadership team and student team enjoyed them over coffee as we caught up on the year just gone and the year now ahead of us. Nice cooking does not...

Pies and Pastry

Finally, we got around to making a pie.  And what a joy it was!  Add steak and kidney, onions, flour, beef stock and puff pastry together, whack in the oven for 2 hours and out comes a delicious pie.

Car Fun

My new year project has begun - get my car up to scratch. The first challenge I took on was to sort out the windscreen washers which exhibited a serious leak after filling up the reservoir. I've come to learn that any jobs on cars take a lot longer then they should, and that comments...