Scents of Direction

	Scents of Direction


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	Tuesday, June 28, 2005 There is a most impressive thunder storm raging outside at the moment, I'm splitting my time between working in the kitchen and standing under the gazebo in the garden. I do love a good storm - Steve, 9:34 PM, Monday, June 27, 2005 Travelodge are doing a good deal at the moment, they have a selection of rooms available for £26 per night, details here. I've just booked two nights in Cornwall next month (in the school holidays) for a total of £52, that's pretty good value as there will be 3 of us in the room. It's a family room too and they are quite resonable (I've stayed in them plenty of times recently!). We'll be staying in Plymouth, but it's ideal for going to nicer places like Looe - Steve, 3:15 PM, Sunday, June 26, 2005 I alluded to it in one of the posts below, we have bought a new printer. It's not the most exciting of purchases but we haven't had a printer at home for ages and there are times when it's just useful to have one. It's also sometimes useful to have a scanner and a copier so an all-in-one was the ideal choice for us. We went for the Lexmark x5260 because it's pretty cheap at Â£50 and we don't need a high quality photo printer or anything like that. I'm really happy with it, very easy to use and the quality is pretty good too (although it doesn't always get the colours spot on on colour copies or prints). For Â£50 it's a good buy, nothing flash but handy all the same. - Steve, 11:48 PM, My head is exactly 24", or two foot, in circumference. I know this because I measured it. This is the reason hats don't fit me well. - Steve, 11:44 PM, Saturday, June 25, 2005 me_Tommy Originally uploaded by Saturner. We bought one of these all-in-one printers , scanners and copiers today and this is the first scan. This was me (I'm the one on the left) 9 years ago, time really flies! The poodle was Tommy and he belonged to Clares family, he's much missed. - Steve, 9:43 PM, Saturday, June 18, 2005 I did some shopping today at Ralph Lauren, get me! I'm not really a label whore though, the purchase was a child's baseball cap for Georgia (burny hot out there) and it cost £3. Ralph Lauren childrens shop was just the first one I came across on the way in to Bicester Village. I also bought myself a cap from Tog 24, again it was a purchase born of necessity as I'm now a great big slap-head and didn't fancy getting burnt at the school fete. My problem is that I have an almost freak show worthy large head, all headwear makes me look like a grown man wearing a cub scout cap... I felt self conscious, left it in the car... now I have a bright red burnt head that looks even bigger. Marvelous. Alright, I'm wearing Calvin Klein jeans but they are shorts and they are the only pair I have, they are 6 years old too so it's fine, ok? - Steve, 7:43 PM, Friday, June 17, 2005 Imagine coming home at the end of a long day to a house like this. Perfect. - Steve, 9:23 PM, Monday, June 13, 2005 I was watching Extreme Machines with Georgia yesterday, they were talking about Navy fighter pilots (like in Top Gun) and showing lots of footage of the jets in action. One of the clips they showed was the launch of a surface-to-air missile during the Vietnam war, it looked quite spectacular and prompted this conversation: Georgia: Cor, would you like one of those Daddy? Shall we get one? Me: What a missile?? I don't think so! Georgia: Why? Me: Well what would we do with it? Georgia: (Thinks for a while) We could use it to kill horses... Me: What? That's horrible! Why would we do that, you like horses don't you? Georgia: Yeah, horses are nice, but they aren't very good are they? I think we have the beginning of a wicked sense of humour, or a personality disorder. - Steve, 10:47 AM, Sunday, June 12, 2005 The other day while sat waiting for the train to leave Marylebone Station I downloaded another ebook from Project Gutenberg, this time War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. It's not my normal sort of reading as I'm really not a sci-fi fan, but I didn't have long and I was on a very slow connection so I thought it would be better than nothing. I'm not getting much time to read it, but I am around half way through and I'm really enjoying it. Hopefully I'll be able to put an hour or so in to it tonight. I started the book before I heard about the film, I'll try to finish it and then take a trip to the cinema to compare and contrast... - Steve, 3:31 PM, Tired. I need to take some time off I think, I'm not sure I have taken any holiday at all this year which on one had is a good thing (because I can take 25 days over six months now) but on the other hand has left me tired and a bit grumpy. I want to take the first week in July off as holiday (to build a patio and have barbecues) I'm starting to get fed up with driving so many miles all the time, this week I put the 70,000th mile on the car and it's not even 2 years old yet. There are things I can do about the situation though: Move up north - I'm half tempted because it would solve the problem of traveling and we would be able to afford to buy a house on my wage alone. The problem is that we're settled here and it's home, also I can't see me working for the same company for ever so we would probably have to move again. Get another job - It would be nice to work somewhere close to home, Ideally about 10 miles away so I could start cycling again. Problem is that I have worked my way up to a "good job" and although I have the experience, I don't have the paper qualifications that make me easily transferable. I also have some benefits that I don't want to give up... Get on with it - It's hardly the end of the world having to drive a few hours each day and it's a bit of time to myself. Work locally - If I hold for about 6 months there should be big projects within an hour of here, I could work in those if I'm lucky Option 4 is favourite, until then it'll be option 3! - Steve, 3:15 PM, Wednesday, June 08, 2005 I'm sure I've said it before; Random Acts Of Reality is a great site and this is a great post on it! - Steve, 8:38 PM, Sunday, June 05, 2005 Sunday evening already? This weekend the current Mrs Turner and I have been celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary, it seems like a long time but at the same time those years have passed quite quickly (does that make sense?) I have had a terrible dose of 'flu (alright... I have a cold) and that's taken the edge off of the celebrations for me a little bit. Still, we went out for a nice meal at our local pub yesterday(second time we've ever set foot in the place) and that was very nice. Today on the spur of the moment we decided to take a trip into London and visited the Science Museum, we had a great time and Georgia enjoyed it too. You really need to spend the whole day there if you want to get the most out of a trip, but as diversion on a quiet Sunday afternoon it was really quite pleasant. We thought about getting the train into London but that would have cost us £37, so we drove in. A few quid spent on diesel, a few quid more on parking, and we got there quicker, more comfortably and parked right next door to the museum. I'm all for public transport but it shouldn't be the most expensive option by a factor of 4 should it? We parked in Imperial College but I bet I could have parked for free if I had taken more time looking, it was a Sunday after all. - Steve, 9:04 PM, Wednesday, June 01, 2005 I haven't read an autobiography for some time now (James Dyson was the last) but I really want to read Rules of Engagement by Tim Collins. The fact that the whole war in Iraq has been so divisive is one of the reasons I want to read it; I'd like to understand how it feels to go to war on behalf of your country but not (necessarily) population of it. The other reason I'd like to read it is because it was Colonel Tim Collins who made that speech, I thought it was sensitive but at the same time appropriate when addressing 800 men about to go into battle. Motivation and strong leadership are easy buzz words we hear in our air-conditioned offices but I'm sure the battlefield is one of the places where they actually mean something. - Steve, 7:06 PM,


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