odd spam

July 27th, 2008

Some spam comments are obviously spam - they are promoting something immoral like poker or porn or lawyers but I see a number that are just a series of letters, no website. I can see no point in these but they must have one - are terrorists using comments to communicate in code via my little blog?

alice holt forest

June 10th, 2008

Went for a slow walk around Alice Holt forest on Saturday, Finn and Cleo had a play in the long grass but then I had to sit and pick the deer ticks off them, I got 10 of the little things off them. I worry about the kids that play in the grass or sit on it for picnics - don’t they collect ticks as well - I wonder if you can frontline your kids?

2nd riding lesson

June 10th, 2008

went well, I actually felt in time with the horse ( guinness was perfect), not too much bumping up and down, steering ok. There is just so much to remember - leg position, seat, hands, contact, back,balance, diagonals, steering…… the half hour lesson goes really fast and provides some amusement to those who can already ride in our house.

Asus eeePC 4g rocks…

June 10th, 2008

We have one of these little beast in the house now - just brilliant, the desktop works - lots of tools, openoffice, wifi , sound etc I’m going to buy one of the new 900 ones with the larger screen should I have some spare notes at some point, but the the small 7 inch screen on the 4g is just fine - youtube looks great and sounds good.. unlike my dell pocket pc I suspect it will cope with my inbox without crashing..

m3 junction 4a northside roundabout

June 10th, 2008

Is very dangerous, the number of times a large lorry has overtaken me and turned left when I want to go straight on in the Sun campus is getting beyond a joke . I’ll get the reg numbers and report them to the police in future. in the meantime I got the Sun facilites folks to ask Hampshire County Council highways to think about better signing or new lanes. Even the car drivers here complain about the number of people who pull out in front of them from the Minley road..

started riding lessons..

June 3rd, 2008

First thing Saturday morning at Rycroft equitation @ Eversley. The first lesson went well, the horse was slow and steady and did all the right things when poked with my inexperienced aids. A bit of walking/steering around the school, some bumpy sitting trot and some attempts at rising trot - I need a sense of rythm implant…

The goal is to be able to do some form of rising trot when out pony trekking without hurting the poor horses back by bouncing..

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my garden is green..

May 19th, 2008

We do compost stuff, the kitchen scrapings go in the wormery but now we are really green!

When the petrol lawnmower died I bought the cheapest lawnmower I could, less than 30 pounds buys a hand pushed lawn mower. It was slower but used no petrol or electricity and I felt fitter at the end. Short of getting the dogs to graze on the grass this is the greenest way ( and yes I am ignoring the cost of the production of the lawnmower itself) to cut the lawn.

you can spot them a mile away.

May 12th, 2008

Whilst driving to horse riding my daughter and I drive down Fleet High Street, Last Friday evening we saw a young man on a motorbike driving like an accident awaiting to happen - no leathers - lots of acceleration and braking.

Halfway along the road he got bored waiting behind the car turning right and did a sudden and violent overtaking maneuver just as the car turned right - oops big mistake - his road rash will sting for days. Good job he had a helmet on as his head hit a steel post that protects pedestrians from flying motor vehicles… i wonder if he threw it away afterwards?

first deer tick of the year…

April 29th, 2008

Finn had a little deer tick walking about on his head last night, the weather must be warming up - nasty horrid things..