Famous Name Changes

Reading time: < 1 min OK, most Brits know who Reg Dwight is, but what about Demetria Guynes? Or Marie MacDonald McLaughlin Lawrie? Or Cherilyn Sarkisian La Piere, or Arnold George Dorsey… ohh I could go on, but I won’t as you can find them all at Famous Name Changes. So, what would you change your name to?

Beep beep beep…

Reading time: < 1 min Nine years ago tonight, after a night out with some friends, I suggested to Louise we get married. As the records show, she said yes and made me a very very happy man indeed. Tonight we have a celebration planned. We will tidy up the house a bit, and probably collapse into bed as we…

The In-Laws

Reading time: < 1 min My in-laws are moving to Spain next week. So today we had a going away ‘do’ (a buffet lunch and a ‘few’ drinks). We had organised a family portrait of the ‘kids’ (Louise and I, her brother and her sister and her four kids), made up a couple of t-shirts for my father-in-law featuring a…

Too much to do

Reading time: < 1 min So I can’t really be sitting here waffling away for you lot… Some pics from last night will surface later, although I won’t mention the tea slurping incident…

Nigella changes tack

Reading time: < 1 min Nigella Lawson is abandoning her cooking career because she is fed up with being known as “a domestic goddess”.I’m all for Ms.Lawson wanting to change the direction of her career. She is a successful woman and is entitled to do what she likes. I just have one teensy-weensy little condition. Can she please make a…

Gadget envy

Reading time: < 1 min My contract is up so it is new mobile phone time methinks… But which one? Tariff has to be cross network, phone must have gadgets. Currently I’m heading towards the Orange SPV (my mate has one and it is very smart aside from the fact it is running on an MS OS… blue screen of…