Had to put my jumper on this morning...

So cold.

Slipping into old age

The £24.95 includes a two course meal and the evening's entertainment.

It should be a good night although it can be camper than a hamper with dixlexsia.

She is hitting the big 4-0 in style.

Graham has posted up some more photos from when we visited and others of the family.

Gordon and Angela visit their US home

Sammy and Coby 1

Sammy and Coby 2

The photos from the last beach BBQ have been uploaded. Finally we get a decent evening to have it without wind, rain or otherwise.

The fireworks were also on which was bit of a bonus.

Click for Summer 2008 BBQ .

I had this annoying crash in Excel 2008 on the Mac when updating a pivot table. Probably started with one of their previous updates.

Anyway, I was just moaning about it, my auto-updates thing kicked in, it downloaded and installed the update. I relaunched my boring costs spreadsheet and hey presto I was able to update the pivot table without it crashing.

Cheers you guys at MacTopia. About time too.

From what I heard the Bournemouth Air Festival was a huge success. I had to miss it due to driving up to Sunderland but I definitely caught the traffic on the Friday leaving work.

PlanesTV has a preview video on YouTube (click) but you can see more on their corporate web site, although judging by some of the comments it is a bit difficult to use.

Anyway, I am looking forward to the air show coming to Bournemouth next year. I think Bournemouth Council has done a great job in holding the event but also reversing its decision on the fireworks so that it was back to normal.

The next main event is the Harley Davidson Rally on Saturday the 27th September.

We also visited the Swanage folk festival last weekend. I should have took my camera as there were loads of groups of Morris Dancers. OK, not typically my cup of tea but it was funny to see the whole range of ye olde worlde traditional beardy ones, through to old granny cum aerobics group, through to young rapscallions having a laugh for the day. pity the sun didn't come out for the Sunday.

Little bro Kenny is also starting Uni in Epsom. Just moving in for the time being and Uni for real starts in a couple of weeks time.

We dropped him off yesterday with a car full of stuff. Still managed to leave a bag in the boot and more stuff is still in Bournemouth to take up.

Don't spend all ya money at once!

And no drinking Ken!

Going to school

Little nephew Aidan starts school this week.

Ha, he might look cute but wait til he kicks off.

Hi Gordon,
Just wanted to say nice blog and hope you keep it up and runnning!
Kind regards,
Sebastian

http://www.bournemouthbynight.com/

Bournemouth Air Festival

 (what to see and when)

Thursday:

2pm-3pm

Battle of Britain memorial flight
Yakolevs
Blue eagles
Grob Tutor
Tucano T1

3pm-4pm

Be200 King Air
Hawk T1
Eurofighter Typhoon
Black cats
Team Guinot Wing walk
RAF Falcons Parachute team

My little brother  Ken is off to Uni next week.

More of the same then, knocking back the JD on the campus.

Best of luck. Just shout if you need a food parcel seeing as you are only a few miles away from Guy and Laura. They can make you a Hotpot if you are hungry.

Will pop into Asda this weekend to get some back to school stuff for you like pens, pencil case and a Gonk.

Don't miss the Bournemouth airshow from this Thursday till Sunday. Bit of a coup for Bournemouth Council, well done.

Should be a great few days and bring in all the tourists. Unfortunately the weather doesn't look hugely great for the event but hopefully the rain will hold off.