Sarah Jane Honeywell

Who says Cbeebies is just for children...

Ahhhhh lovely: http://www.sarah-jane.biz/gallery.htm

Holiday Inn, Carrow Road

Anyone thats been around carrow road will not have missed the Holiday Inn Hotel being built over the past year. Building work began in April 2006 and completed in May 2007.

Over the year I have tried to capture the build. Partly because I live near by and partly because it is taking up such a dominant space at the football ground.

This link shows the images that I have captured over the year, and attempts to show the hotel being built. There is primarily three locations I took pictures, from the road looking into the Football ground, from the front, and from the side.

http://dwmphotography.co.uk/carrow/carrow.html

Lessons Learned

This may well be a "oh Dave thats so obvious" but I have learned a wee trick with train fares. It involves buying single journeys instead of returns.

For example:

14th July - Norwich to Peterborough
Out 09.57
Return 18.42
Cheap Day Return - £14.40
Two singles (2 x £5) - £10.00 (saving £4.40)

12th July - Norwich to Newcastle (via Peterborough)
Out 09.57
Return 15th July (12.00)
Cheapest standard return available - £95.30
Single standard £32.50, return £24 = £56.50 (Saving £41.80)
However, you could treat yourself to:
Single First Class £42.50 x 2 = £85 (Saving just under £10 from the return).

Finally, I have been sitting in the dining car coming back from London on the 18.20.
You get a very quiet carriage, a nice choice of food, and a bottle of wine for under a tenner.
All you need is a standard single as well.

You can check fares at Nationalrail.co.uk or www.onerailway.co.uk

Torrid load of Sh**

Apologies for the language, but driving home tonight I ended up listening to Graham Torrington's Late Night Love. What winds me up is the attitude at times and borders on self righteous, but more so, is its got nowt to do with Love.

This programme is as much about love as Jerry Springer is to being a vicar.

Really iritating.

So whats been up....

Well not much exciting, I wish I could say I have been travelling in Austrailia but thats simply not true.

Basically, there have been two things. Firstly I have never had my own PC / Laptop. I used to be able to blog, upload photos and do all sorts using my work computer. The problem with this is that my work PC got updated and stopped people accessing blogs and posting to them through an enhanced firewall. This wasn't too bad, I could still look at blogs and I do some basic stuff.

Then, a fault developed on my work PC which meant that the hard drive had to be completly rebuilt with a new build, this then had a new firewall installed that prevented me doing any uploading or downloading of any sort - effectively it prevented me accessing the internet. That was that and I knew I was buying a new personal laptop in June and here we are.

So - what did I buy. I took a good few weeks to decide on this. Fortunatley for me I was given £200 from a BT Customer as a thankyou for helping (corporate customer) so this helped.
At first I knew I wanted a dual core processor but didn't realise that there were two types. Apparently there are two types - dual core and core 2 duo (the latter being the 2nd type and more up to date of core processors). I also really wanted to have 2GB of RAM to make sure Vista ran really well. However I was struggling to get 2GB of RAM machines at a decent prices (I only had a small budget).

Well last week I found the following machine from John Lewis:
Samsung R20 at £599
This spec to summarise is:

T5300 Core 2 Duo
2GB Ram
120Gb Hard Drive
Ethernet Port
Wireless
4 USB, 1 Firewire

The cost was £599 but I used my £200 to claim vouchers for John Lewis reducing it £399.
I also found a site called hotukdeals.com where I found an online code for £20 off if you spend £100 or more, taking it to £379.

So all in all a good deal. SO I should be back blogging and getting my websites up to date and working soon.

CHAMPION

Start Again

Well Im back

Its taken a while but I have a new laptop.

I will explain my long term absence soon and what I have done about it but if anybody is reading this, thanks for your comments and emails.

Cheers

Dave