http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog Ranting at the world since 1961 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:57:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en #73 - Stick McDonald's straws into a turd! http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog/?p=1425 "This internet thing is all very good but I can't see a business use for it" - One of my bosses 1995 http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog/?p=1421 There has been a photo on my phone I've been meaning to blog about since our holiday but not got around too. Yesterday I took another picture and thought I could combine the two. Here's the picture I took yesterday: I call it "Teenager makes a sandwich" The other picture is this ... http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog/?p=1415 Fork in the Road http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog/?p=1413 We went away camping last weekend - no where too far away just to see how Ben would get on with camping as he hadn't been since he was about a year old so had been more containable! As usual we left our friend to feed the cats while we ... http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog/?p=1411 My Dad was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour which turned out to be a secondary malignant cancer. Tests showed that the primary source of the cancer was his lungs. Yesterday he went to see the oncologist who told him he had incurable lung cancer. Relaying this information to me he added ... http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog/?p=1410 This is the view from our holiday cottage in Sunniside near Tow Law in County Durham http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog/?p=1403 After the arrival of the ginger fluffball that is Tango we decided (or rather Sarah told me) that that was enough cats - we hadn't intended to have 4 it just sort of happened - most of them have come from Freecycle which is where this story starts. It's the ... http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog/?p=1396 When Woolworths was closing down I bought one of their Worth it webcams in the sale. I loaded the software onto my laptop and put the camera and all the bits into my laptop bag. When I looked a while later the CD with the drivers on was broken. Shortly after that ... http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog/?p=1392 On Friday I was working at a stud farm in Newmarket and it was a very hot day. So hot that it was difficult to be outside for too long and I had to keep retreating into a tent which, although out of the burning sun, was still very hot. At the ... http://www.shewan.co.uk/blog/?p=1387