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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.