Beer by the river

What a beautiful day.

RIP James's PS3

As a last ditch attempt to save James' PS3 I though I would take it completely apart and see if the heat sync was making good contact with the CPU and GPU. I replaced the paste and reassembled it but the motherboard looked a little toasted in places and when tested my repair hadn't made any noticeable difference. So he's ordered a new one.

Internets!!

We have Internet at the flat!! Although our router/modem hasn't arrived so I spent yesterday afternoon bodging up a network from all the bits I brought up with me along with the ADSL switch thing that wires ethernet to our rooms. Proper job.

A rare bit of sun in the north east

27*C today! Nuts

Cow wine stopper!

A present from my Godfather that he brought back from Venice.

PS3 A&E

All settled in now. Lectures start Monday. This week has mostly consisted of male bonding and heading out to make sure all out favourite watering holes are still as good as we remembered. That is until the PS3 started over heating!! I knew there was a reason I felt compelled to bring my set of security driver bits.

Getting ready to Jim Jam walk along Eastbourne seafront.

First night with everyone moved in

Introducing Martin, Pete & James.

I have arrived at my new diggs

I haven't had a lot of time to move in and unpack but I am in and bed time I think.

Packing for Newcastle

I had tried to hide her in here

but V's new car is just that bit too long to get them both in.

And 20minutes later it chucked it down

Money well spent

Winter coat go!

Sam is busy getting Charlie ready for the winter. New winter coat soon to go on...

Mammoth update!!

Right, sorry about the lack of blogging lately. I kind of got out of the habit of it and then got rather busy and never caught up. 

Rapid fire blog posting go!

The best way to see Madeira

And we found a water fall

I get my hair cut in the hotel in Funchal 

We spend an evening in a restaurant in Madeira that might put a smile on a few faces

Monkey nuts!

Every seen a ship conduct a 3 point turn? No me neither

Verity is in this picture, honest

Infinity pools are cool

A model of the airport in the departure lounge. It must have been even more scary before the extension!

Puffed up crisps!

Activities for V's Birthday

Including pin the tail on the cow! 

Always a winner. If in doubt, buy her a cow.

Working hard

Evil FaceTime Gnomes

Finished

Dad borrows some foamex from my work

Verity bought some boxing gloves

I felt the need to defend myself

We lost our ball over the wall

I made some mirrors for a friends boyfriend

Very smart if I do say so myself

Poundland source a new breed of Gnome!

Verity and I move into No.10 for the summer and put up a blind

I design and make the worlds most odd jigsaw

And cover it in old bed sheets

And get some help plastering it

And then start another one

Ohhhh... They're eyes!!

Oh that makes more sence..

I get more help with plastering (I have discovered plastering isn't easy)

An aluminium fram is required as my eyes are now immensely heavy

Find some interesting things when clearing out the containers at work

Show my eyes to Rodger Daltry. He likes them, sort of.

Go to London for Lynne's Birthday. Where we see Wicked

Eyes without projection

More interesting things from the containers at work

CHEESE!! For pudding at Rules in London, yum.

View from the hotel room.

The clippers come out at a BBQ one Sunday

So I have a go

I don't think my head has ever felt the sun before

Dad takes the piss of my 'fro-hawk'

Some of the guys at work take on the mammoth task of block paving the yard

Verity has a lie down on some grass

Mum and I were in a crash, ouch.

Verity and I have a go on the most awesome bike thing ever at Airbourne. 

I found a Google car

Airbourne fireworks

Beach BBQ with Mum 

Mmmm...

V and Em try out the beach tent 

I climb a cliff face at cow-gap (more of a steep hill really)

I dress up as my dad 

Emily poses on a rock with two pairs of sunglasses

Verity sits on rock with only one pair of sun glasses. 

Emily on the same rock but from another angle

Verity and I go to Western-super-mare for a birthday and I find the most amazing F1 simulator at the end of the pier

We spend ages trying to win various toy with 'The Claw!!'

I get ready for Verity's Rally driving day!

I get very excited when we get there

and then get even more excited when I see what she gets to have a go in.

This was V's favourite at the end of the day

She did every so well!

Oh yeah, and then I proposed to Verity. And she said yes. Woopee!! Party!