Der Fenestra

Decided to go down to the Whiterock Hotel for lunch and fell to about computers and beer with a chap I met at the bar over a pint of Olympia, a very nice beer indeed and thoroughly recommended. He introduced me to a girl called Carina, who was having trouble with her computer. She had managed to install a BT dialer which took some getting rid of mainly because her computer like Carina was German and my entire knowledge of the language comes from reading "Battle Picture Library" as a boy!

Did the necessary quicker that I would have thought possible by deleting the HTML files that were running the pretty little dial up the machine was offering, this brought IE6 and Outlook Express back online and all was well. I earned a pint and the gratitude of a foreign student so all in all not a bad day at all.


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The Whiterock Hotel, home of some of the best beers in Hastings.

Let the train make the strain!

I took my daughter back to Bournemouth University today, the journey was long but fairly easy. We made it to Clapham and then straight to Bournemouth without too much fuss and bother and Charis had made efforts to ensure that we were not too heavily loaded, which helped matters along! But it was noticeable that the SWT line was a lot more comfortable then my old commuting line Southern, which seemed to go out of it way to make trains that we hard on the bum not to mention hard on the pocket..

Despite everything and a good trip to boot, it was still hard work, practically an entire day spent on a train. I fully expect to have a sore neck and back for several days as a result of the appalling seats on those Southern trains.