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Today’s Car MOT failure

My car was booked in for it’s MOT at 9 o’clock this morning, so required a bit of an early start for me.

I was there on time and decided to sit and wait while it was done. After about an hour I was told that it had failed. more…

Fixing / replacing the broken Dell XPS

I have now gone a total of just three days without having my laptop in a functioning and usable state.

When it took a turn for the worst on Tuesday morning I thought that it wouldn’t be missed a great deal for a short period of time. I was wrong. more…

My Dell XPS laptop has died

Now that is really annoying, I went to turn my laptop on the other morning and it wouldn’t start up.

I assumed maybe the battery was dead after using it unplugged the night before, but soon realised there was a bigger issue when it failed to turn on even with the power adapter. more…

My first viewing of Avatar

I’ve just finished watching Avatar for the first time and have to say the two and a half hours seemed to fly past.

After hearing some initial feedback when the film was released, it did put me off watching it at the time. more…

Our last surfing location – Crooklets, Cornwall

A few hours ago we arrived home from our short trip away down in Cornwall, where the plan was to do as much surfing as possible.

Unfortunately the first day didn’t provide great conditions for surfing, the sun was shining nicely but the waves were few and far between – so we didn’t bother. more…