2008.

New year's eve 3x round the village circuit in the muddy slime 23 mins 05.
We went into town for lunch.
More tidying up.
Finished the england level of tomb raider.

New year's day 4x circuit in the misty mud 30 mins 16.
More tidying up.
We went for a walk up the other hill.
Saw the finding neverland film.

Wednesday after about 20x I got fed up with falling off ledges in the ice caves and downloaded a slightly later save game.

Thursday carol took the xmas tree down.

Friday found that there was only a tricky run over collapsing pillars and a difficult fight left in tomb raider legend.

Sunday frosty.

Monday having trouble starting the car, having to jump it with the battery I removed - probably wasn't the battery or starter motor then. The orange light comes on occasionally, so it is probably not charging well, especially with the headlights on all the time. Decided not to go to the mynd.

Tuesday isolated the battery and charged it about 2 hours. Starts ok now.

Wednesday got the rear of the car exhaust replaced. Charged the battery some more.

Thursday put new regular slinky strings on my 2x old guitars.

Friday andy brought his new vintage les paul in and we had a bit of a play with it at lunchtime.

Sunday charged the battery again.
Adrian and jonathan came over for some guitar tuturing. Leant him my old satellite guitar and crate amp.

Back to red background. Swapped to rain logo, as there seems to be very little snow about.

Sunday afternoon 1x round the village circuit 8 mins 29.

Lots of rain this week, and some more rain.

Friday saw the avpr film. Lots of complete unknowns playing fairly standard cut and paste characters, but it also includes some of the best elements of the 2 franchises, and it is suitably dark.

Saturday we attempted to fit a new drive belt to the tumble dryer, only to find the reason it had snapped was the broken rear bearing. Bought a bosch 74103 instead.

Sunday charged the battery again.

Tuesday frosty morning.
Ordered the synology ds207+ nas from amazon and a seagate st3500320as 500G drive to go in in from ebuyer.

Friday the hard drive arrived.

Saturday bright and dry.
Afternoon 1x round the village circuit 8 mins 43 - drive chain squeaking a bit, so put some spray grease on it.
Had an email to say the nas was shipped on friday.

Sunday 1x circuit 8 mins 26 in the cold sunshine.

February.

Monday off to stansted and napoli - flight delayed 1hr. Cool and sunny in italia.

Tuesday the nas arrived.

Thursday flew back to stansted more or less on time, getting home about midnight. Rather windy.

Friday set up the nas - fairly straight forward for a file share. A couple of hours to copy about 40G of music and 30G of photos.
Very cold and sunny, with a bit of snow.

Saturday 1x round the village circuit 8 mins 30.
Relocated the nas and set up the the other pc and firewalls to see it.

Sunday 1x circuit 8 mins 21 in the cold wind.
Charged the car battery again. It seems to be lasting more than a week on a full charge.

Swapped to the snow logo now winter has arrived at last.

Monday decided to postpone the long mynd trip to wednesday for the better forecast.

Tuesday lots of rain on the way home.

Wednesday off to the mynd. 4 in 2 cars, including carol and me in carol's van. Also 2 locals. Bright and cold with a moderate W wind straight onto pole cott. Eventually flew the skorpion for the 2nd time ever - zooming up and down the slope with a jet like noise very nicely. A couple of loops and a rather slow roll. Tried a few landing approaches, switching in the crow braking, which although quite effective in slowing it down, caused a rapid zooming height gain - probably needs some down mixing in, and maybe using it progressively on the throttle stick. Decided to try to get it down without brakes. Eventually got it down safely. Also flew the filip, stiletto, old zagi and nano floh. Later on it warmed up a bit, with the sun low in the sky causing a bit of a problem. Anyway, a great day and we stayed a bit later than usual, hitting the traffic on the way home.

Friday got home in the daylight. 1x round the village circuit 8 mins 09. Put the car on charge.

Saturday 1x circuit in the frosty low sunshine 8 mins 29.
Put some new plugs in carol's kawasaki to try and get it running.

Sunday morning frosty and sunny.
1x circuit in the warm afternoon sunshine 8 mins 12.
Eventually got the kawasaki going after putting some fresh fuel in and using jump leads. It gradually got better, and seemed quite happy once it was running. Carol took it for a ride.
I took the ducati for a ride, meeting up with adrian and dave at dad's for a short ride out. Very cold by the time I got home.

Forgot to mention that I bought the band of horses cd cease to begin on saturday.

Tuesday got home in late afternoon sunshine. 1x round the village circuit 8 mins 20.

Wednesday home in the cooler sunshine. 1x circuit 8 mins 27.

Friday saw the jumper film - some nice sf ideas, but rather full of plot holes.

Saturday we went to oxford. Lunch at the big bang, then up walton strreet for coffee and cake at the rather wonderful freud and over to port meadow, then back down the canal in the jericho area.

Sunday morning frosty sunshine.
1x circuit in the cool low afternoon sunshine 8 mins 21.

Embedded the ironman trailer in the coming soon section.

Monday extremely cold.
I turned 49.
1x round the village circuit in the cold sunset 8 mins 20.

Tuesday home in the grey daylight. 1x circuit in the bitter cold 8 mins 27.

Wednesday went shopping at tesco and walked past the laptop a few times, before weakening and buying it - a fujitsu-siemens amilo pi 2515 £399.

Got the camera out, and on a tripod and experimented with the manual settings to take a few photos of the moon. Only occasional breaks in the clouds scudding past.
Got up at 02:30 to have a look at the lunar eclipse, but 100% cloud cover.

Thursday and friday got to play with the pi2525 laptop a bit more. The display is 1 of those modern, highly reflective glossy things, and windows vista loses a bit of clarity with all its on screen decorations. I think a 15.4" widescreen is a good compromise beteen portability and visibility. The keyboard is a bit squelchy, but works well. It would have been nice to have bluetooth built in, as well the wifi (untried as yet), but it is easy enough to plug in a usb unit. The headphone level seems a bit low, even turned up to max. It works well generally, and looks gorgeous.

Saturday damp and grey. We cut a path through the jungle to the shed.
Frogs are gathering in the pond.
1x circuit 8 mins 51.

Sunday 1x circuit 8 mins 16.
1st frog spawn has arrived - about 2 weeks earlier than last year, due to the warm weather.

Took the kawasaki for a ride, despite the dark grey sky - light rain by the time I got back.

March.

Tuesday tried to get the old bluetooth adapter working on the laptop, but vista complained about the old software and drivers.
Didn't charge the car this weekend, but it seems to be holding up well, possibly through less use of headlights.

Wednesday about 01:00 woken by the earthquake.
Did some web research on the bluetooth adapter. It seems vista has drivers for the old dongle and it works ok as a link, but the file transfer software itself won't work.

Thursday home in the daylight. 1x round the village circuit 8 mins 04.
Carol saw a fox in the garden and got a few photos.

Friday leap year day.
Checked the intonation on the bass - had to lower the a string a bit.
Windy night.

Saturday fitted the new clutch lever to carol's kawasaki.
I see the skorpion is reviewed in this month's qefi.
1x circuit in the last of the sunshine and cold wind 8 mins 11.

Sunday 2x circuit 15 mins 41.
Went for a test drive of a mitsubishi colt - not impressed.
Tidied the garden a bit.
Took the ducati for a ride.
Updated the skorpion page.

Monday home in the daylight. 2x round the village circuit in the cold wind and dazzling low sunshine 15 mins 40.
Decided not to go to the mynd as the forecast was for a cold N wind.

Tuesday 2x circuit 15 mins 26.

Thursday nice to see mitchell and webb back - the cheesoid robot thing was inspired and the funniest thing we've seen in ages.

Friday home in the cold sunshine. Took the ducati for a ride.

Saturday cut back the jungle a bit more.
Received confirmation that the compensation for being knocked off my bike in august is complete.
Went to leicester for a change, including a look at intasound. Had lunch at loaf.

Sunday 2x circuit in the damp sunshine 15 mins 04.
Took the ducati for a ride down to the allotment. Put a radio watch on it.
More garden tidying.
Charged the car battery again - although not completley down, the starter was getting a bit slow.

Monday tried the laptop with the samsung 225 external monitor - it seemed to automatically detect it and set the full resolution - excellent.

Windy this week.

Thursday warmer and sunny morning - took the ducati to work. Got wet coming home, when the forecast rain arrived a bit early.

Friday home in the daylight. 1x round the village circuit 8 mins 09.
Managed to beat the chess game on the laptop at the lowest level - deliberately swapped off some of the heavier pieces, but accidentally ended up 1 castle down at 1 point, but my remaining pawns were better placed for protection and promotion.

Saturday up early and off to thornhill to go to london. The oxford espress bus diverted round some roadworks and took a lond time, coming in through southall, hanwell, ealing before joining the traditional westway route at acton, arriving quite late after 12:00. Tried and failed to get the free wifi working on the pda, but only saw the sign up screen once and it didn't work. We got off at victoria to be a bit closer to trafalgar square. Even so we were in time for the speeches, and dropped into garfunkels for coffee and cake. Joined the march down whitehall and over westminster bridge, then up the river bank to lambeth bridge. We left at that point and continued along to battersea park. Saw a cormorant on the river repeatedly trying to swallow an eel, only to have it turn round and come out again - watched it about 20x, but didn't wait for the outcome. Had an ice cream in the park. Unable to find london recumbents, tired and wih it starting to rain, we crossed the river again and got on an expensive bus heading in vaguely the right direction for the centre. Walked back up regent street and oxford street in the rain. Waited over 30 mins for the espress bus to arrive, which was almost full anyway. Got on the next oxford tube instead. Got the pda connected to the free wifi relatively easily and checked my gmail. Rather horrible journey home through the heavy rain in the dark, not helped by a diversion through warwick as part of the a46 was closed.

Sunday we caught up on some ov the tv we missed using the bbc iplayer.

Monday took my kawasaki to work - a bit cold.
It was only after riding and adjusting the controls on the ducati that I noticed the clutch lever is a bit high on the kawasaki, but any attempt to rotate it lower is blocked by some electrical switch connection clashing with the riser casting.

Tuesday beat the computer at chess again, at the lowest level - managed to stay ahead all the time, and only a couple of mistakes.

Wednesday morning frosty again.

Thursday played the computer again, but increased the level to 3 of 10. It seems I was using 2 before. Anyway still beat it, despite 1 move mistake, staying ahead all the way.

Friday holiday we went to town for lunch through small hail stones. Went to ikea to look at kitchen mixer taps on the top floor. The 1 way system is annoying, with the lifts only to be used to go up. Bought a tap from wickes instead. Cleaned the ducati and car in between showers of rain.

Saturday morning snowing and windy.
Had a new digital tv aerial fitted in weather conditions alternating between sunny afternoon and wintery blizzard. All channels nice and solid now.
Bought a hauppauge wintv usb stick and a belkin bluetooth usb dongle for the laptop.

Sunday morning settling snow covering most of the garden - looks like the frogs got the timing wrong.

Snow melted away quite quickly.
Got the wintv stick working on the laptop.
1x round the village circuit in the afternoon 8 mins 18.
We went for a walk around the circuit later with occasional flakes of snow.
I've been reading a bit more of the fabric of the cosmos.

Sunday pumped up the chess game to level 4 and lost.

Monday holiday morning snow, but not settling.
We went to have a look at kelmarsh hall and gardens. Arriving a little early we had lunch at a pub in arthingworth. Cold and noisy in the garden.

1x round the village circuit 8 mins 19.
Lost again at level 4, but I was ahead for some of the time.

Tuesday managed to stay ahead all the way and beat the computer at level 4.

Wednesday had a look at the toshiba dvd player that came free with the tv after it failed - back to the old sony for now.

Thursday took the ducati to work - a bit cold in the morning, but nice and sunny on the way back. Popped in to see adrian.
Pumped the computer up to level 5 and lost. Tried again and managed to stay ahead for a long time, but a few mistakes meant I lost again.

Friday home in the daylight and 1x round the village circuit 8 mins 33.
Had another go at the computer. A very long game at about 2 hours, including a bit of a stalemate in the middle, where the computer kept sliding its castle up and down, waiting for me to do something stupid. Anyway, lost again eventually.

Saturday 1x circuit 8 mins 26.
Carol off to wales.
I did the village litter pick, before the rain arrived.
Into town for lunch, coffee and cake. Bought the raconteurs cd consolers of the lonely,

Lost at chess again.
Watched the resident evil 3 extinction dvd.

Sunday up early after the clocks changed. Nice and sunny. 2x circuit 16 mins 11.
A bit of garage tidying. Took the kawasaki for a ride in the warm sunshine.

April.

Monday lovely warm sunny weather. Went into town to pick up my repaired tank bag - patched over a couple of minor rips.
Played the computer again and won - at level 5.

Tuesday 1x round the village circuit in the windy warm sunshine 8 mins 37.
The only ones on later live with another girl, another planet.

Wednesday 1x circuit 7 mins 55.

Thursday 1x circuit 8 mins 07.
Forgot to pump up to level 6 and lost again at level 5. But it's at 6 now.

Friday warm with occasional sunshine - took the kawasaki to work - riding home in the warm warwickshire sunshine, felt the desire to be in france.
1x circuit 7 mins 53.
Stupidly lost my queen at level 6. Did a bit better next time, but still lost eventually.

Saturday into town for lunch.
Lost again.

Sunday morning mabe the heaviest snowfall so far this year, but soon melting in the glorious blue sky sunshine.

A bit more garage tidying through alternate warm sunshine and snow showers.

Sunday lost again at chess.

Tuesday mynd cancelled due to lack of wind, not to mention the cold.

Thursday bought a cheap logitech quickcam webcam.

Friday took the ducati to work, dodging the april showers, fuel light flashing on the way home. Visited the allotment on the way home.
1x round the village circuit 8 mins 34. Went out to eat.

Saturday into town for lunch.
Saw the fox cross the front garden. A bit too quick for a photo.
Took the ducati for a refuel.

Sunday 1x circuit 7 mins 56.
Afternoon adrian and family came over and we went to the daffodil sunday around newnham paddox art park. The rain held off for a bit, but eventually came down, turning into big hailstones later.

Monday off to stansted through sunshine, rain and hail to napoli for work.

Unseasonably cool weather in italia.
Saw most of the pink floyd wall live on music box.

Thursday night back late to stansted and home for 01:50 (friday morning).

Friday saw the jay in the garden - not easy to get a good photo.

Saturday 1x round the village circuit in the wind 8 mins 06.

Sunday 1x circuit in the wet 8 mins 13.

Tuesday 1x round the village circuit 7 mins 46.

Wednesday the new bat detector arrived from magenta.

Friday took the kawasaki to work, but it was a bit cold and damp.

Saturday 1x circuit 8 mins 19.
At last, some sunny warm weather.
We went to oxford. Lunch at pierre victoire. Walked past the front of the engineering building and took a few photos, but it is still much too ugly to appear here. Through the park to the river and over the bridge through meadows to east oxford for a change, then back over magdalen bridge.

Bought the book almost like a whale and the cds the age of the understatement and the story.

Sunday 1x circuit 8 mins 02.
Another fine sunny morning. A bit more gardening. We took the ducati and kawasaki for a ride in the warm sunshine.
The promised rain eventually turned up with a bit of thunder.

Swapped to stars logo now more snow seems unlikely.

May.

Sunday the last episode of the 2nd series of pulling was rather excellent.

Monday took the kawasaki to work.
1x round the village circuit 7 mins 58.

Tuesday bought the golden compass dvd.

Wednesday played carol at chess on the laptop.

Thursday saw the ironman film. Quite good I thought. No surprises, but a faithful adaptation of the story, slightly updated. The characters just not very interesting.

Went to vote, then sat in the garden at dusk watching the bats and a hedgehog.

Friday 1x circuit 8 mins 00.

Saturday 1x circuit 7 mins 53.
We went to london with the forecast best weather of the holiday weekend. Busy at thornhill, with 1 espress bus going past full. Got the oxford tube instead. Problems on the M40 meant it took 1.5h longer than usual. Got off at victoria and had luch at le signore next to buckingham palace. Walked through st james park, over westminster bridge and up to have a look at the banksy can festival, but the queue was enormous. Back over waterloo bridge, through covent garden, up neal street, finding the other freud bar (and shop), then back down oxford street.

Sunday 1x circuit 8 mins 15. Took the ducati for a ride to the allotment. Into town for lunch

1w+1d late due to holiday in sardegna.

Monday holiday, excellent weather - did some reading in the garden. Took the ducati fo a ride. Charged up various aircraft.
Over to the cadmac meeting in the evening. Flew the swift.

Tuesday more lovely spring/summer weather. Saw the fox in the garden. Over to the mynd in carol's van. With an E wind and ashes hollow closed for the nesting season, we tried out the alternative ashlet. A long walk round the hills to get to it, but it is actually very good, with views over the town and to the hills beyond. The wind tends to leak around the edge a bit to the left, and there is no nice flat landing area, but generally very good. Even better when the sun moves round later on. Flew the old zagi, stiletto and nano floh. Decided not to risk the skorpion, as I'm not confident about getting it down safely on an unknown slope. Long walk back - you can just about see the vehicles in the distance in the 3rd photo when we were about half way back.

Wednesday took the kawasaki to work. More packing.

Thursday more packing.

Friday evening we headed off down the a14 and m11 to the travelodge at great dunmow.

Saturday just a few hours sleep before getting up at 03:00 and over to stansted for a 06:15 ryanair flight to alghero sardegna.
Not used to being fussed over by the justsardinia rep, but he had some good advice about the return trip and arranged the house keys pickup.
Lancia something or other from europcar - too big, anonymous/dangerous silver/grey colour, vague power steering, appalling blind spot behind the sloping windscreen pillar, lots of reflections from the dashboard, but easy enough to drive and good air conditioning - washer bottle was empty too.
Stopped at the auchan supermercato at sassari to stock up. Interesting to see the french chains moving into italia over the years.
As we headed up to the NE the scenery got better, with lots of twisty mountain roads, taking longer than expected, but still making the tamoil garage at bassacutena for 15:00 with a few mins to spare.
Gianni led us up to the villa l'arco, despite us having the directions already, and showed us everything, when we really wanted to catch up on some sleep. Well equipped with a pool, washing machine, a (rubbish and noisy) dishwasher, induction hob, but no microwave. Surrounded by a large garden, mostly wooded down the hill with long views, including the quarry down the road. On top of our shopping we had a small welcome pack. An interested lizard in the warm sunshine on the rocks by the path. Exploring the garden, carol saw a hare and a large tortoise. We went down to the tavola calda bar at the tamoil garage for something to eat. In the evening we watched the bats from the balcony.

Domenica went down to arzachena for the ld supermercato. Up to the coast at palau where there are ferries to the islands. Had lunch at a pizzeria. Up to capo d'orso for the strangely eroded rocks that look like a bear from out at sea - not from close up it doesn't. Started to rain up there. Again, watched the bats from the balcony.

Lunedi explored the garden some more for the flowers and bugs - saw a tortoise, but probably not the same 1.

Went for a walk towards the quarry. The really heavy rain started as we came back.

Went out to ristorante gli ulivi through the rain in the evening.

Martedi more or less raining all day. After a few false starts we got the wood burning stove going. Spent a lot of time checking the sky meteo24 forecast. In the evening a little chink of brightness appeared under the clouds.

Finished the book fabric of the cosmos. Just almost like a whale left to read.

Mercoledi up early and over to arzachena for the weekly open air market. Nice to see some sunshine again. Had coffee and cake at the fox caffe. Also went to the dettori supermercato.

Back home the lizards and bugs were out enjoying the sunshine. We had a swim in the pool.

Went for a walk down the lane past swiss tony's house, seeing more tortoises.

In the evening we went up to coast at santa theresa di gallura for a look and something to eat.

Giovedi we decided to make the most of the good weather and headed down SE to see the national park. Round the outside of olbia and down a good road through the proper mountains towards nuoro, before turning off for dorgali. Curious to see the clouds just crawling over the mountains to the east. Had lunch at a little pizzeria, then coffee and ice cream at a bar. Went over, or rather through the mountain to see the sea at cala gonone, but didn't stop. Couldn't find the park museum. Headed back up the east coast through orosei - largely spoiled by an enormous quarry on the south side.

Still evening sunshine when we got back, we had a quick look at luogosanto.

Venerdi morning we popped down to the small shop in bassacutena for some more water. Someone rumbled past on a ducati monster as we walked around the side streets.

Went to have a look at tempio di pausania. Lunch at trattoria bisson - espresso fetched in from the bar next door. Had a walk around the memorial park.

Sabato with a late flight, we stayed for an early lunch, before setting out SW. Stopped at the auchan at sassari again for a break and a bottle of water. Arriving at alghero we used the free large sea front car park as recommended, and had a walk around the centro storico. Unable to find anywhere aperto to refuel, we headed back to the aeroporto.

Saturday home about midnight.

Sunday always surprising how much the garden has grown in 1w in spring/summer.
Into town for lunch and some shopping. Lots of tv to catch up with.

Monday holiday 1x circuit 7 mins 59. Took the kawasaki into town for lunch. Bought the long awaited ting tings cd we started nothing.

1d late again due to cragside.

I think we were a little unlucky with the weather in sardegna.

Wednesday took the ducati to work.
1x round the village circuit 7 mins 59.

Thursday took the kawasaki to work.

Saturday 1x circuit 8 mins 03. Into town for lunch. Watched eurovision.

Sunday looking at the weather forecast we decided to go north and have a look at cragside. A long drive, but mostly a clear run, past the angel of the north, arriving about 12:00. We decided to rejoin the national trust, rather than pay the entrance fee. The house is really quite remarkable, feeling quite comfortable inside. The victorian technology is interesting, Sadly, no photos allowed inside. The grounds are enormous, rocky, wooded. Saw a deer in the stream. We went on the 6m drive through the house and estate.

Sunday holiday windy. A few secs of power cut while editing this. We went down the lane to see the fallen tree, but it had already been cut up into sections.

June.

Monday another power cut late afternoon - about 5 mins.

I see monica naranjo has a new tarantula cd out - sounds rather orchestral, but heavy enough in places. Even sounds a little like muse. Seems ridiculously expensive at the moment.

Wednesday dropped the car off for an mot.

Thursday took the kawasaki to work.

Friday took the kawasaki again.

Saturday a bit of sunshine. Into town for lunch. Had a quick look at the covstock music thing, but it is really rather expensive to be in the cathedral ruins, when you can hear the music and see quite well standing outside.

Sunday 1x round the village circuit 7 mins 51.
The network connection on the pc motherboard failed - had to go and buy a pci nic unit.
Had a bit of a play with the skorpion - reducing the down flap travel for air braking to try to reduce the zoom when they are applied, and increasing the aileron travel a little, including a bit more aileron to flap mix.

1d late due to kilworth.

Sunday unable to update the freewire site after fitting the new network card seems to have stopped dial up working - multiple driver changes, removal of files and reboots have failed to fix it so far.

Monday took the ducati over to the cadmac meeting. Got very wet coming back.

Tuesday mynd cancelled due to unpredictable wet weather.

Wednesday took the ducati to work.

Thursday dropped the car off for investigation.
We went out to eat at the old lion on a perfect summer sunshine evening.
Dowloaded and installed filezilla ftp client for the laptop as the old aceftp doesn't seem to work on vista.

Friday took the kawasaki to work - bbq for lunch. Afternoon off.
Used filezilla and dial up on the laptop to update the freewire site. Also used thunderbird to get my dial up email.
Got the car back.

Saturday up early and off to london for flugtag. Got off the espress bus at baker street and headed W to explore the area - seems mostly residential. We emerged on the edgeware road and had some lunch before entering hyde park. Surprisingly fast moving entry security. We settled down on a blanket under a tree on the N bank in time to see the 1st hit the water, although the "take off" runway was behind another tree. Lots of pedestrian traffic and people standing in the way.
About 14:00 it had clouded over and started to rain a little. We decided to give up our spot and have a walk round. Hiring a boat seemed to provide a good view, with no risk of being hit by an aircraft - despite the repeated suggestions that this might happen, but far too expensive. We found the best option for viewing was just to the side of the boat hire building. Sun came out again later.
Quite the funniest moment was when a presenter approached a competitor dressed as batman and asked his name, only to get the reply "batman".
Most of the competitors were just novelty splashes, but a few made serious attempts at distance, in particular the cullinan bird that got the nose down nicely for some airspeed, flared out, and finally stalled nicely into the water, covering 39.5m. Of course the judges were unimpressed, and they only came 5th.
It all ran a bit late after part of the "swan" got stuck on the bottom in the "landing" area.
There was quite a nice millennium falcon, but of course it didn't fly well.
Oxfordshire looking nice in the summer evening setting sun coming back.

Sunday 1x round the village circuit 7 mins 43.
We went to have a look at kilworth organic farm and vineyard - home of the chevelswarde range of wines. A group of 5 gliders circling in the thermals above.

Took the ducati for a ride and refuel.

Monday hot and sunny. Took the kawasaki to work.

Tuesday warm and sunny. Took the kawasaki to work - going very nicely.

Thursday kawasaki again.

Friday off to look at the car.
Bought a ps2 to usb adapter so I can use a ps2 keyboard (and mouse) with the laptop - it's a bit minimalist in its external connectors - quite right too.

Saturday we went to leamington for the peace festival. Had a good french lunch at elevenrestaurant, near to the green men meters. The festival pretty much as it always is, busy in the sunny weather.

Sunday 1x round the village circuit 7 mins 56.
Some reading in the garden.
Took the ducati for a ride in the warm sunshine.
We watched the flugtag highlights on itv4. I hadn't realised that the eventual winners were model aircraft people - shame they didn't allow for the weight of the pilot, as it folded straight off the tower, not even pulling any g - looked as though it might have set a new record otherwise.

Monday took the kawasaki over to wolston for the cadmac vintage evening - rolling through 60000 miles on the way. The flying field now purchased by the club, with the grass looking much better without the sheep.

Tuesday 1x round the village circuit 7 mins 43.
We went over to earlsdon to see stuart and chris.

Wednesday evening got the car back.

Friday took the ducati to work.

Saturday summer solstice and raining. Adrian and family came over for the village festival, we went up the bell tower.

Sunday 1x round the village circuit 8 mins 18 - slowed down by a squirrel running down the middle of the road witrh some nesting material.
Into town for lunch. Bought the book not even wrong.
Took the ducati for a ride in the wind.