Lots more progress this week. Kitchen is in and tiling nearly complete – just need the ceramic hob put in and me to put some vinyl on the floor! Bathroom is looking great – except there is no ‘seat’ yet as it was in two pieces when we got it…
Flat for rent!
My old flat is once more up for rent – with it having quite a bit of capital in it we decided to give it a bit of a spruce up. New kitchen, bathroom and long overdue double glazing will hopefully make it a bit more rentable by the end…
World Record follow up
I was googling to see if Mark’s World Record was mentioned anywhere else and came across the official Guinness announcements for the week of 16th to 22nd February 2008. Amongst them all is Mark Beaumont of course, but see what other weird records were broken that week. “Farthest ear sling-shot”…
Welcome home Mark!
Saturday evening we were lucky enough to be invited to Mark Beaumont’s “non-press” homecoming in the Radisson in Glasgow. Was good to see him for the first time in more than 6 months – other than looking a bit more tanned, sporting a beard, and needing a bit of a…
Blimey it's windy out there
My usual bicycle journey time home from work is about 14 minutes but if I really push it I can get sub 12 minutes. Tonight is took 21 minutes. Head wind all the way keeping me below 10mph in places. Was knackered by the time I got home. Slow considering…
Mark has finished!
194 days and 8 hours by my reckoning is all it took Mark Beaumont to cycle out of Paris in a sort of Easterly direction and cycle back into Paris from the west. 18,400 miles or so in between. Still awaiting official confirmation but that should break the world record…
Victory for Pentland Ladies
Mum and two other teams from Pentland Ladies won the Midlothian Province Bonspiel – the first ladies team to win it in a long, long time. Click on any of the pics below to see bigger images. The sport was curling by the way – I’ll fill out more details…
Cloverfield…
Godzilla type monster movie set in the stereotypical monster movie capital – Manhattan. But this time it’s all seen through the eyes, or rather camera of one man as he starts off filming a party and then him and his friends efforts to save the main man’s unrequited love. At…
Portal
After completing Half Life 2: Episode II I went to see what else got installed when I bought the Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (PC DVD). Portal is by far the most imaginative game I have played in a long time – with a portal gun you fire it at…
More traffic problems…
Okay, my prediction about West End Gridlock has come early… Roadworks short of Roseburn mean traffic is down to one lane, and the buses still have to stop so that’s a nightmare in the mornings – have taken to going through Murrayfield playing fields to avoid it – works well,…