Bomb scare over

We've just been told to evacuate the Lloyd's building only to be told 30 seconds later not to. Damn! I could have gone home.

2014 beerathon

After going to the last 6 or 7 Great British Beer Festivals we decided to give this year's a miss. It's good fun but after about 4pm it just gets far too busy and it's all the way over in Olympia which is a real hassle to get too.

This year we decided to just do some beer tasting of our own and just did a pub crawl around Soho. I was home by 8 but we had good fun.

Where to next year?

Laser cats

From Hasbo, available in all good pet stores.

Stupid animal

She's not done this for a while. But still makes me laugh.

Busy day

The cats woke us up at around 5 this morning but it was okay as we got loads done.

We ripped out all the carpet from the stairs and landings then took it to the tip. There's a shed load of spiky carpet grip that also needed pulling up so got the majority of that up.

Then we picked up some logs for the fire.

We also went to a second hand charity store to find furniture for some of our rooms. Didn't find anything though.

We picked up a new lock / catch for our bedroom door (to keep the cats out and to stop them waking us up).

We popped into Majestic to stock up on beer and wine.

After that we popped over to a recently done up garden centre for lunch and to pick up some plants for our hanging baskets.

Tonight we're off to a friend's for a bbq before heading over to our old local.

Loads on tomorrow too. Urgh. I'm going to need another weekend at this rate.

Jeez, that's a bloody big dragonfly

Or at least I hope it is. If you listen closely you can hear Biscuit meowing.

Feel the power

It gets pretty hot at work in the summer so splashed out on a new usb desk fan.

Excellent. Until I turned out on. They're not much friction between the desk surface and the fan so it's started to move on its own.

Not to worry. I've celotaped it to the desk.

Happy birthday to you

My weather spreadsheet is 10 years old today!

Ha, ha, ha. What a loser.

Memories

I had a look down a corridor at work yesterday and found some of the paintings that used to be in and around my first office at Lloyd's 12 years ago. All part of the Lloyd's collection.

Back to the grindstone

I've just finished 2 days of SQL training but back to the day job now. It wasn't the most fun as half of the course was typing out code from a book onto the screen and clicking go but it was nice to have a break from real work.

I'm sure there'll be lots to do once I get back in the office.