Alexander and family visit here

Amanda's stepbrother came this week to visit us all. He brought his wife and two children, driving all the way from their home near Oxford. They stayed with local friends in their new Gite. In fact, they were their very first customers.


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A miserable Summer day

Today, the sun shone for 5 minutes. The rest of the time it was completely overcast with clouds. I've been used to sunbathing by the pool recently, as the weather has been magnificent. But today, it is a time for indoor pursuits. The highlight of the day will be collecting my MG from the local garage, where it is being serviced. Thankfully, there was no apparent problem with the car prior to the service. However, I fully expect to be advised that there was a critical failure of some expensive component.
I recently bought an Apple iPad, and it has been transfixing me every day with the incredible applications that can be driven by it. I subscribe to PresDisplay, and am able to download and read The Times and the Daily Mail on my desktop, iPod Touch and the iPad. The display on the iPad is the crispest of the lot, and shows off the publications in glorious colour and definition. I also subscribe to many magazines via Zinio, PixelMags, and directly with a number of publishers like Wired and Vanity Fair. The BBC iPlayer service allows me to download high quality video files which are easily converted to iPad formats.


This photograph is of a prototype MG TF made by the new Chinese owners. I just hope it goes into production. I think it would compete well with the best of them.

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