Sunday 30 August 2009
Back Home
Back home after an overnight stay at H's parents house. Had a nice time there - the girls tested the local playgrounds, and Kathy (H's mum) spoiled us with delicious food. Tomorrow I want to try to fix my media centre PC - I bought an Acer Idea 510 a couple of years ago and it's generally been pretty good - I have a lot of music, photos and video loaded onto it, and it means we can watch IPlayer and other streaming video on the TV rather than on a laptop. However, it apparently has a fairly predictable problem involving the power supply and the external display on the front. I've seen various hackery suggested on the boards but I think the simplest answer looks to be to fit a new power supply. I haven't tried this particular bit of PC surgery before, but it doesn't look too bad - I'm going to take a photo of the cabling before I start, just in case I get in a muddle.
Tuesday 4 August 2009
Up to date
We decided we ought to try a new restaurant (as a family I mean) since Pizza Express no longer uses a mozzarella that H can eat, so we decided to give La Tasca a try since we really liked the Tapas place we went to in Weymouth. I'd have to say it wasn't quite up to that standard, but the food was good - particularly the children's meals - and the service was excellent. So we'll have to give that another go.
After that we went to have a look at Kettles Yard's exhibition from the house collection. Not really impressed - out of their setting, a lot of the works looked pretty lifeless, or even amateurish. They have a big chalkboard though, so the girls were happy + they are giving out these museum Top Trumps type cards to children, which they also thought was good. I think H is taking them to the museum of Zoology at some point (or the Skeleton Museum as E describes it).
I've been reading Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, and finding the characters (especially Gary) and situations altogether too close for comfort. But it's a fantastic book - seems like ages since I read a new novel that I enjoyed.
We also watched Man on Wire the other night - fantastic film, just incredible. Apart from being an interesting story, it's also a kind of poignant memorial to the Twin Towers, before they became known for their terrible end. It's always strange now to see them on screen, particularly having been there almost a year to the day before the attacks.
After that we went to have a look at Kettles Yard's exhibition from the house collection. Not really impressed - out of their setting, a lot of the works looked pretty lifeless, or even amateurish. They have a big chalkboard though, so the girls were happy + they are giving out these museum Top Trumps type cards to children, which they also thought was good. I think H is taking them to the museum of Zoology at some point (or the Skeleton Museum as E describes it).
I've been reading Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, and finding the characters (especially Gary) and situations altogether too close for comfort. But it's a fantastic book - seems like ages since I read a new novel that I enjoyed.
We also watched Man on Wire the other night - fantastic film, just incredible. Apart from being an interesting story, it's also a kind of poignant memorial to the Twin Towers, before they became known for their terrible end. It's always strange now to see them on screen, particularly having been there almost a year to the day before the attacks.
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