I need a vacation
Fri, 30 April 2010
Our first visitors from the UK have just departed our house for a trip up north in California.
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Fri, 30 April 2010
Our first visitors from the UK have just departed our house for a trip up north in California.
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Fri, 30 April 2010
In the world of website hosting, you need some kind of server solution. I’ll be honest that my sites don’t receive the number of hits that, say, Amazon does. I know, it’s shocking news. My needs therefore mean I can comfortably host my sites on a nice all inclusive hosting package. My sites sit on a machine somewhere in a data center, along with countless others. That suits me fine.
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Tue, 20 April 2010
You gotta love the commercials for personal loans. They are often accompanied by footage or stock photos of smiling nuclear families, happy now that all their woes have been wiped out. Now that their loan has made them wealthy, they can return to their feckless ways of spending beyond their means – two or more cars, a house full of consumer electronics, cable TV, a new kitchen and vacations in the Caribbean.
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Mon, 19 April 2010
It’s amazing how fragile our control over the earth is. It just takes once teensy-weensy (massive) volcano to ground half of Europe and strand millions of people away from their homes. Sleeping in an airport lounge for best part of a week is not my idea of fun.
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Wed, 14 April 2010

Brian the beagle, our boy
I’ve not really mentioned Brian much. Shame on me. So, on the eve of his six month “birthday” it’s only right I should write a little something about our chap – or “the boy” as we affectionately refer to him.
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Wed, 14 April 2010
Wahey! The 2010 MLB season is upon us, and the O.C. Englishman is in hog-heaven again.
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Wed, 14 April 2010
I love the great outdoors but when I moved to the O.C. I didn’t think there would be as much opportunity to get out and about as there was back in the UK.
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Wed, 14 April 2010
Myrtle Beach, SC, is a premier location for us to take a golfing vacation. There’s a plethora of Myrtle Beach accommodations to choose from, so where to start looking?
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Wed, 14 April 2010
The USA is such a geographically diverse nation you don’t need to leave its shores to find places drastically different to where you live.
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Tue, 13 April 2010
For the past few months I have been partaking in hikes with the O.C. hiking club. Their website is part of meetup.com – a site where anyone with an interest can set a group or club which then allows others to find and join them.
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