Shrove Tuesday… already!
Feb 20th 2007PeterLife on hold!
And no obvious comments please about all being perfect tossers! However I have just enjoyed my pancakes!
I’m afraid no photos this time, although Olivia has been over a couple of times, but in fractious mode. (Poor thing!) However she is putting on weight rapidly and now weighs 10lbs!
Most of my weekend was spent building a newer, faster computer for Felicity – it isn’t the hardware building that takes the time, it is loading the software, and the updating it all. No ‘bleeding edge’ stuff here – I’m still using Windows 2000 – but my disk is an original, so there were several hundred megabytes of service packs to get, then the set up and migration of the data from the old computer. Funny to think that downloading all those upgrades can be done relatively quickly now, thanks to broadband connections. It was only 6 years ago that I was downloading a 24 megabyte file over a dial up connection which then went via a satellite link and it took nearly 8 hours! The satellite link itself had less bandwidth than my broadband connection today! I think I had a connection speed of about 26Kb/s, 100 times slower than my broadband connection!
Still, Felicity’s computer is now complete. I then repeated process (which took another day) on the old one and gave it to Vicki to replace her very old and slow one. It is so slow that there is visible lag between moving the mouse and the the movement of the mouse pointer!
This week is a visitor week. Yesterday I received some financial advice about my pension arrangements and general finances. He is totally independant, so no hard sell, and he left me reassured that my financial arrangements are fairly sound.
This morning I had a visit from an old childhood friend, Gill whom, along with David (who has been mentioned in the past) I have known since I was five years old! Tomorrow my sister, niece and nephew are visiting, and on Thursday Elspeth from Leukaemia Care is visiting for a couple of days. She is arriving in the evening as I have the appointment at Guy’s on Thursday morning.
I was reading John’s Blog earlier – he remarked that he hadn’t mentioned his health for a while (although he has made several other interesting observations about health issues in general) and I am in a similar situation – nothing to report. However I did have my first shave for about six or seven weeks at the weekend!
So on that note…. a rousing chorus please of “Onwards and Upwards”!
(Hmm – I feel the need for another pancake…)
9 Responses to “Shrove Tuesday… already!”
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Richard on 20 Feb 2007 at 8:43 pm #
Shave? Head, chin or with Summer coming……………
Are you a Maple syrup, jam, Golden Syrup or savory man?
Tomorrow Lent starts I was considering giving up being silly but that would be too hard and the church said today that Lent should be fun.
So booze it is, not very original but interesting to see what the outcome is on my bank balance and recycling duties.
Will still keep crossing though.
Xichard
Using up some bottles and cans tonight to remove temptation
Jo Casali on 21 Feb 2007 at 7:36 am #
Peter
Mum told me yesterday about your Blog – fascinating, I can’t stop reading. Only problem is I can’t get to the beginning very easily and keep getting in a muddle! Maybe Mark can help me?
You are truly inspirational and incredibly gutsy. I will now read your Blog regularly to follow your progress. Wishing you all the best and feeling very envious of your bacon sandwiches! We can get bacon here, but it’s never the same as at home!
I feel terrible, my poor boys didn’t get pancakes yesterday – I will make some this weekend!
Wishing you all the best from sunny Bahrain.
Jo Casali (nee Lord) and family
Peter on 21 Feb 2007 at 9:00 am #
Richard – I’m a lemon juice and sugar man myself! (Although I’m told that Cointreau makes a good filling!)
Jo – thank you for your comments! The easiest way to get back to the start is to scroll to the top of whatever you are looking at and click on ‘Home’ (at the very top). Internet Explorer doesn’t display this them very well, and better browsers include Opera (www.opera.com) and Firefox (www.firefox.com).
Peter
Gillian on 21 Feb 2007 at 9:16 am #
Definitely lemon juice and sugar – spot of icecream goes well with maple syrup though!!
Still thinking about what to give up for lent, working through all the bottles and cans as per Richard defeated me (hic!)
OxxOO O&H x1000
Gillian
Neil G on 21 Feb 2007 at 10:14 am #
Peter
Oh well, today is Ash Wednesday and I didn’t get any pancakes yesterday – agree with you and Gillian lemon juice and sugar is best, although my daughters would go for chocolate.
Good to hear about the shaving and nothing much to report on the health. See you briefly on Friday.
O&U
Neil
Liz on 21 Feb 2007 at 9:13 pm #
Just a quick post. Just back from M & D’s – they send their love. Glad you enjoyed your pancakes! Hope that tomorrow’s trip goes well.
Lots of love,
Liz
Richard on 21 Feb 2007 at 10:17 pm #
Crossed up for tomorrow
Sorry I forgot the lemon but before Wednesday all were committed to V and G anyway if does depend on what time of day or meal you are having them.
Denise Lord on 22 Feb 2007 at 12:17 am #
hi Peter
Did you get my message yesterday. Not quite au fait with all this PC technology.
Love and kisses
Denise Lord
Peter on 22 Feb 2007 at 10:18 am #
Denise – yes! The first comment is always held for review, but it has appeared abou 3 posts back.