Ok. If you havent worked it out yet from the photos, I’m here is Fremont, CA. for work.
I’ll be going in like Red Adare to fight some Fires.
But less about work…
Driving on the other side of the road is very difficult for my pea, jet lagged head.
Yesterday, I picked up a Hertz hire car and [...]

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Went to see Mark Thomas and Rob Newman doing their comedy skit last night. I was a little nervous about seeing Mark Thomas as I had the preconception that he would be a very shouty, angry performer who would use agression to get his comed across. Where, in actual fact, he was a [...]

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Last night, we gave into TV. Not that we havent been watching TV, but we moved lt back down stairs into the living room.
OK there is a chair infront of the screen, but the temptatllon of Malcolm in the Middle and Top Gear is too great when you don’t have to sil in a [...]

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Well as I have been getting organic veg from the farm down the road, I have started to do more cooking. So far I have played it safe and gone with stuff I know such as soup soup a lovely soup and stews. However, I wanted to do something different and since I [...]

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It’s done. I have booked to see the Boosh. Front row tickets no less. The show isn’t until March, but at least it will give me something to look forward to after my holibobs.
It’s quite cold here now. I was a little freezing bunny this morning and I really did not [...]

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I’ve taken a couple of days off work to help my mum to build a foundation for a shed and put a shed up, in my Brothers garden.
I got to my brothers house around 1030 ish as I had some chores to sort out before I left. (yes the fire ash has been emptied, the [...]

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Well the fire is going a gooden. It has never been so hot down here at Broom Cottage. Personally I think it is all down to the quality of wood supplied by the wood pixies (many thanks Spadgers). It has even got sooo hot that the grating has melted away and the [...]

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What a weekend it has been. Got up early and jumped on a train for the big smoke. Made our way to Forbidden Planet on Shaftsbury Ave where we queued for 3 hours just so I could get a signed copy of “Shaun of the Dead” the comic book version. And I [...]

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I have a new goal: To become an Engineering Hero.
It maybe my love of comics and the fact that I’m an engineer, but after listening to In Business on BBC Radio 4, it looks as if there is a requirement for engineers in Britain and to make kids want to be one.
Long have I thought [...]

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Just to take the edge off the chilly weather, I stoked up the first fire of the year.
Maybe I had lost the knack (that I never had) of lihting the fire, I managed to chop some good Nicholson Hardwood into suitable kindling and get the fire going within 30 minutes.
Toastie

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