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August 2003

powwownow


here for my remembrance as much as anyone else’s is a link to a voice-conferencing service called powwownow.
You call a national rate number 0870 22 333 44 and enter any old PIN number. there is no set up fee, registration or extra usage charges.
So to make a voice conference you just need to make up a 6 to 9 digit long PIN number (eg the last load of digits from your phone number), tell the other in your voiceconference the PIN and what time to phone the 0870 22 333 44 number.
It’s all very good.
Advert over …

transport misery

and so the transport misery continues. i think it’s a given that my journeys to and from work will take at least 2 hours each way for the next two weeks 🙁

plant pot on a post

i saw this plant pot on a post yesterday. it was here again this morning so i took a photo. i’ll keep an eye on it for you
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in the can

here is one of those cans they put proper movie film in. perhaps it had a section of a latest pre-release blockbuster. i should have gone in to the road, opened it up and sold the contents to a newspaper. but i’m not that kind of chap. so, its contents remain a mystery
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peek-a-boo lady

here is a photo of a lady peeping out of a bin. peek-a-boo lady
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misery

bad morning for transport. looks like being a very bad fortnight. my train line has been reduced to hardly any trains and the ones that are running are stopping at every station. yeah. packed hot slow trains. great.
it’s all explained in a nice press releasefrom thames trains.
it’s a pain for commuters and anyone trying to get to the Reading festival this bank holiday weekend.
Someone else who was having a bad monday morning – a car randomly crashed in to a parked car. two police men but no driver at the scene.
i suspect it was driven by a badger. badgers are notorious bad drivers, partly as they can’t see out the window and press the pedals at the same time. this is why they usually drive automatics.
this was a manual car. they were asking for trouble.
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icecreams

esther and kezia enjoying an icecream at Pooch and Party’s (Jane’s parents). They have luxury icecream. We only have necessity icecream in our house so it was a real treat.
Just to be authentic we had to queue up and we were handed our icecreams through the kitchen window. there were no flakes and i kicked up a stink.
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fridge

i had to stop the car and take this photo out of the window. wife and kids very impressed by my dedication to finding items in the street. this was in the countryside miles from anywhere. why would anyone bother to drive for miles in to the countryside to dump a fridge ? the council can come and collect them from your house i think. nought so queer as folk
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emergency fork

in the middle of silchester we saw this fork taped to a post. very strange. if it were an emergency fork then it wouldn’t have to be a very time sensitive emergency if you wanted to extract the fork.
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“we didn’t know which way to go as there was a fork in the road”

silchester / calleva

we had a family trip to Calleva today. It’s an old Roman town and once was as important as London. now it’s just a some falling down walls in the middle of some lovely countryside.
however, today there was an archaelogical dig in the middle of it arranged by Reading University. They have a website about it
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esther even got to have a little dig in a pit of mud:
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here is kezia and her grandma at the ampitheatre entrance:
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railway children

we have borrowed a load of wooden train set from esther’s preschool for the summer. i spent a happy hour on saturday night constructing a most excellent track. i was delighted to see that jane hadn’t packed it away over night. so was kezia !
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windsor park

we went for a walk in windsor park today. very good it was too.
here is king george VI on a bike horse:
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here is esther with windsor castle in the background:
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