Move over Doctor...

I realised this week that I have unwittingly stumbled across the secret of time travel.

Travelling forwards in time has always been straightforward, as long as you maintain a steady speed of one second per second. And many is the Friday night that I've gone to bed, only to wake up on Saturday at a time several hours further into the future than I had expected.

With regard to travel in the opposite direction, our file server crashed at work this week. Twice. Losing several days worth of valuable work in the process. Ultimately resulting in my suddenly finding myself doing exactly the same things that I was in the previous week.

Unfortunately I was a little to distracted to make the observation at the time...

Playing Silly Bees...

I heard this song on Chris Evans' show last week and for some reason, I was immediately struck with the idea of adding another one of my silly animations to it. Now admittedly, I usually save these events to mark the passing of a significant number of blog visits, but to be honest, I'm not sure exactly where it stands.

The Bravenet (musical) counter appears to have been stuck on 24,677 for quite some time now and I've only just discovered why this evening (yes, I have been getting visitors). According to Sitemeter, it's only 24,562 and to add to the confusion, eXTReMe Tracking make it 24,786.

Not that it really matters anyway so firstly my continued thanks to those responsible for [nearly] 25,000 visits and for no other reason than a bit of midweek silliness, I give you my latest offering...

Busy doing nothing...

There's a very good reason why I've not posted anything for a couple of weeks - basically there's been nothing much to tell.

Work has been up to its usual standard, the Friday teatime tradition of a bite to eat and a few beers in the Tap has been kept, no progress on the diet but I haven't gained any either so I'll take some consolation from that.

The Wii hasn't seen much activity but I have been doing some serious catching up with TV. Over the last two weekends I've managed to watch both series of Life on Mars and the first series of The Big Bang Theory. Well it's free entertainment on Virgin Catch Up TV so you might as well take advantage. I couldn't stop watching Life on Mars as I was desperate to find out how it ended and couldn't stop watching Big Bang Theory as aside from being quite funny, it stars the gorgeous Kaley Cuoco.

Beside that, I have one other project simmering away in the background that I hope to be able to share on here soon, so there's the obligatory suspense ending to try and entice you all to keep looking in...

I would have written sooner...

You would have thought that with a week off work, I would have found a bit of time to pop on here and keep you updated with what's happening but I seem to have been a bit preoccupied.

Where were we last? Right, Tuesday and I'd just finished treating the fence. Well after a quick trip out first thing Wednesday morning, I picked the folks up for a tour of a few garden local centres. No I can't believe I spent any of my holiday doing that either, but all is well with the world - I still don't enjoy the places much. Still, it did provide an excuse to take them out for a spot of lunch which was dutifully washed down with a few well chosen ales.

Friday's events started with a phone call from the most experienced member of my team saying that he'd put his notice in. Sure it was disappointing but there was little I could do about it before returning on Monday so I set forth for the real ale trail in Grimsby and Cleethorpes I'd been planning with Rich and Delcatto. Needless to say, a good time, delicious fish & chips and a plethora of tasty ales were had by all.

Yesterday was my chance to get the usual weekly household chores and shopping done before settling down for the evening to discover the fate of Doctor Who and his companions (and then of course flipping over to BBC3 to catch all of the happenings behind the scenes in Doctor Who Confidential).

I thought I would probably get around to posting something this evening, but then I flicked the TV over just to see how the men's Wimbledon final was shaping up. Even though I only joined it towards the end of the fourth set, I have never seen the like of it in my life - it was an awesome match; both players on excellent form and worthy champions in their own right.

And I guess it's too late to start writing now, so I guess I'll have to leave the blog for another day...

Please don't take a fence...

A couple of weekends ago, I decided to treat myself to four 5lt bottles of fence treatment and a pump sprayer (some treat eh?!) but today is the first chance I've had to get out in the sunshine and play.

I can't honestly say that "it does exactly what it says on the tin", because for starters I bought it in bottles and secondly it was the cheapo own label stuff. Four minutes per panel it said, but it seemed a bit sketchy about the fact that you still need to run a brush over the stuff to even it out after the spray is so patchy.

Still, a couple of hours later, eleven panels treated and my utter amazement it's dried out evenly, they look as good as new and all a matching shade of golden chestnut.

As a bonus they also match a lot of the border, several patches on the patio, my hands, feet and jogging bottoms, not to mention next door's conservatory...