On receiving a renewal notice for my car insurance today, I thought I would look around to see if I could get a better quote elsewhere. After looking around at several different websites that compare quotes from different insurance companies I noticed that the company I currently have my insurance with was offering a cheaper…
Month: February 2007
Fortnightly Refuse Collections
I learnt today that my local council is thinking of bringing in fortnightly refuse collections instead of the current weekly collection. I and my husband already take recycling very seriously and recycle all our bottles, cans and paper waste through the current blue box scheme. We also compost all of our vegetable and garden waste….
Ollie in the Snow
I just found this picture of my cat Oliver in the snow we have last month. I think its so cute how he almost blends in with the snowy background.
Giving the Cats a Pill
Today it came around to that time again, the time that every cat owner dreads, the three monthly worming pill. Most people only have to do this once every three months; we however have four cats, so four cats means four pills. Whilst they are usually cute little creatures they seem to sense that it…
Frogs
I had a surprise this morning when I looked in my garden pond. It appears to have invaded by frogs over night. Whilst I am used to this yearly invasion it appears to have happened very early this year, perhaps due to the unusually warm weather we are currently experiencing. I hope this doesn’t mean…
Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
I recently brought The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess for my Nintendo Wii. After nearly 80 hours of game playing I have now just completed the Temple of Time and am well on my way to starting the sky level. I have always been a fan of the Zelda games having owned A Link to…
Laser Eye Surgery – My Experience
It’s now been two years since I had my laser eye surgery. I used to have a prescription of -5.75 in each eye which basically meant I could see about 10cm in front of face and everything else was blurred. From the age of 13 I have worn glasses or contact lenses and am now…
Creative Suite Hangs on My Mac
While working on my Mac mini the other day I encountered an easily fixed but very irritating problem. When I tried to load my creative suite programs (Photoshop CS, Illustrator, In Design etc) they all failed to load. Instead they got to the stage where they were initializing and then just hung. After reloading creative…