Angela bought a nice bracelet from the Tits 4 tat event last night from someone called Gem Freeman. Angela said we would put a link to her web site after the show.

If you would like to commission a piece of custom jewellery or buy some hand crafted items then that is what Gem does. She is based in Bransgore, Dorset.

Good to see some ideas being generated about parking in the area.

Bournemouth Echo article

Personally I would save make parking free for up to 3 or 4 hours. Plenty of time to do relaxed shopping and not having to chase the clock, but time to go to more shops etc as opposed to nipping in for an hour and just the one place.

I don't think it should be free all day as then the places could be taken up with workers, although I think that should be another issue to be dealt with so there are plenty of places just outside of town and not have too many residential restrictions. No point in making town centre parking free, for them all to be taken up by workers' cars and none left for shoppers to use.

Tits 4 Tat

I can assure you that it had nothing with me (Datacenta Hosting) being a sponsor, honest. Not sure I have enough friends with free time during the week to play golf.

The event was to raise funds for Breast Cancer Care and I hope everyone had a fun time and well doen to everyone for their hard work.

From the event

Bournemouth Council have finally got me onto their garden waste collection scheme.

Should also save me the trip to the Christchurch recycling centre to dump only a couple of bags off.

Wow, the garden is going to look a treat once my green fingers come back and I start hacking away at everything.

Aprill 11th 2009

Easter Bank Holiday weekend, on the Saturday 11th.

Would love to get an idea of numbers coming so I can order am appropriate amount of food.

Stonking Interest Rate

Can't wait to get my next letter from the mortgage company. Do I get money back now? Are they going to give me 0.01% interest on my mortgage as if it were a savings account? Very funny.

I should really use that saving and pay some capital off and not blow it on a 50 inch TV. So tempting though...

Getting up this morning I was a bit shocked by the news snippet on Twitter that there had been a brawl between a couple of gangs outside my favourite Chinese restaurant in Bournemouth, Oriental City.

Bournemouth Echo ran a small piece on the brawl. Hopefully these are not wanabee idiot mofoes out to spoil things around here.

By night the police cordon and small tent by the entrance had gone and the car park was once full again and customers were inside.

What a right pair indeed

You know, the one where long-term customers get stiffed over and new customers get all the best deals.

Our company has been with BT for years with its Internet connection and I now get to see half-price or double-bandwidth offers all over the place. A quick phone call to our Account Managers just elicits nothing, nada, zilch. Now we have Dabs (owned by BT) trying to prise a sale from BT.

I don't care who does it, just give me a better deal on what I currently have. Now.

Bournemouth Council better get its parking policies in good shape if they are not going to annoy the hell out of local workers and visitors. The newspapers seem to say that this is going to be a busy summer as people have decided to holiday in the UK due to the credit crunch.

The other week there was no parking at my office, so I normally head up Clarendon Road and usually there is a space even right at the very end before West Cliff Road. It was so busy that I had to park on West Cliff Road. I saw a sign saying even the parking on that main road was going to get restricted due to considerations for local amenities. WTF!

Just wait till the airshow. Parking will be a nightmare.

Credit Crunch is hitting the restaurant scene in Bournemouth. It was lights out this week when the Red Panda Chinese Restaurant quietly disappeared and shuts down.

The whole group/chain must be affected as their website says it is "undergoing maintenance".

That dreaded iMax building has not had a good life since the beginning. I guess everybody wants to know when it will finally go.

Happy year of the Ox to you all

Tis the year of the Ox. No, not the wife, Ox I said.