Dec 10 2007
A weekend in brief
Helen and I went back to our home town at the weekend. (The place where the masthead photo was taken.)
On Friday night we went to a preview of Philip Revell’s new work (I warn you, that’s an appalling website he has there and it may not work for you at all). So we’ve got a new casserole dish and a wee jug. We’re putting together quite a nice collection now, as Helen received a set of bowls on her birthday.
We played Trivial Pursuit with Helen’s parents. And Helen’s mum and I soundly thrashed the other two (well, it was actually pretty close, but that doesn’t sound so impressive). My impressive computing knowledge won through in the end, though only because I could remember what COBOL stood for. Damn you Grace!
On Saturday I tried to fix my parents computer. That wasn’t very fun. In the words of that great orator, Ripley, “I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure”. I honestly don’t understand how using such infested machines can be better than going without. I’m sure it’s more productive to just pull out the quill pen and the carrier pigeons than fight with Windows spyware one more time.
We went to see The Golden Compass also, which I thoroughly enjoyed. More on that later. I tried again to fix my parents computer on the Sunday but failed, again. I hate that machine.
On Sunday night we went to Haddington to see the Garleton singers do a Christmas concert. It was pretty much all over my head though.
And here’s me thinking we won because you knew the name of the Spice Girl’s second album
I can neither confirm nor deny these allegations, though I will say that I only said Spice World because I thought it was the name of their movie. (Which it turns out it was. And there’s a computer game too…)