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Friday the Thirteenth………………!!

June 13th, 2008 · General, Non Boating, Non Boating Life, cats

When I looked out of the kitchen window this morning it looked like the garden was covered in white blossom except it wasn’t blossom……………..on closer inspection it was feathers, almost as if someone had emptied a pillow out.

Then I saw it………………….. do you remember the film About a Boy starring Hugh Grant, the scene where the boy had tried to feed a duck with his mum’s homemade bread and killed it, the duck was floating upside down in the lake………….well it wasn’t a duck it was very fat Wood Pigeon floating feet up minus most of it’s feathers in my garden pond.

A quick spanish inquesition followed with my two cats Rosie and Katie both denying all knowledge and blaming the moggie next door.

I must admit they are getting old and lack the killer instinct spending most of their time indoors, but then i’m biased……

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Up and Running again……….

March 27th, 2008 · General, Non Boating, Non Boating Life

Well the new power supply arrived so I stripped the pc down to fit it ………not so easy in a micro cube….well it went in

It buzzes and the fans come on but ……………….a big fat nothing…..

Well it seems that when the power unit went pop so did the video card …………..£40 later and it works………now for the spanish inquesition.

On asking the SWIMBO if she noticed anything odd on or around the time of demise of the power unit “no” she said ” I just moved some books”

Ahh the penny dropped… the books… the same books that were tight up against the computer blocking the cooling air fans…………………………..

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