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Well the final finance payment date was rapidly coming up on my white Mini Cooper S and needed to decide what I was going to do. Refinance the balloon payment. Sell the car. Hand it back to BMW. Didnt really want to refinance the car as there are a few things going on in my life right now which dictates… Continue reading The Mini Cooper S Has Been Sold
The Bramley Cafe Originally uploaded by paulfarrow Well saw that the cafe in Bramley had re-opened after the last owners had left, so thought being a lover of cafe’s I would go and try it today. It is situated on the high street in Bramley. Initial impressions: lovely smell of hot food and it was busy. I opted for the… Continue reading The Bramley Cafe, Bramley, Surrey
if you go to the barclaysstockbrokers.com url and try to login you get presented with an invalid security certificate error by firefox and ie 8. The certificate is for www.stockbrokers.barclays.com not www.barclaysstockbrokers.com. I have rang them and emailed them but no one seems that interested in getting fixed they dont see it as a problem. Well in these days of… Continue reading Barclays Stockbrokers Have An Invalid Security Certificate
Thought you would like that title, well my neighbour Alex Pool is off to China to be part of Panda breeding programme for three weeks. He is running a blog if you want to keep up with his exploits. Lets hope he publishes some pictures of them as they are so cute. Thats if China doesnt censor it all. Any… Continue reading Alex And The Giant Pandas
Went to buy some Duchy Elderflower Refresher in my local Waitrose and couldnt find a drop, now its my favourite summer drink. Was told by an assistant that Duchy are changing their packaging and until that is finalised Waitrose were temporarily not stocking the product. Weird, I have emailed HRH Prince Charles personally to find out what is happening !!! … Continue reading Duchy Original Elderflower Refresher Not In Stock
Just had a webchat with Barclays Bank, and it must be them embracing different ways to chat to customers that browse their website. So thought I would ask about dollar accounts and why not after all it popped up and they asked me. So here goes the conversation Customer: ok can you give me current exchange rates on dollar accounts… Continue reading Dollar Accounts and Barclays Bank
Last weekend took delivery of my Suzuki GSXR750 K7 it is very nice. Bit frightened have to be honest of it at first but after 2 bends I was smiling very big wide smiles its excellent. Unfortunately it broke down 2 days after getting it, the regulator went on it but Portman Motorcycles are fixing it. But until that time… Continue reading Got my Suzuki GSXR750 K7
Followed Eric Clapton last week on the roads around Ripley. He was in his Porsche turbo and I was in my little white Mini Cooper S, his Porsche was going well. Although I did have him on the roundabout under the A3 at Ripley, but lost it again on the slip road. At that point I thought I was going… Continue reading Race with Eric Clapton in his Porsche Turbo
Since upgrading from xp windows media center to vista home premium I have been unable to get Napster to work using its media center plugin the one that allows you to download and listen to music through the media center with the tv remote. The normal napster application works fine but not the plugin. It was provided free with windows… Continue reading Napster Media Center Plugin on Vista
Well it all started about two months ago, when my mate Chris reckoned to go to Berlin for a weekend. As soon as he said that I thought “YES” but instead of flying I would suggest driving, I thought it would be a blast and due to my last excursion in Brittany France was well up for it. We left… Continue reading Mini Adventure to Berlin – May 2007