We had lunch at John and Ida’s today, excellent as always.
The newly engaged Paul and Stacy called in to see us this evening. 🙂
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A wet and windy Saturday
This morning I finished fitting the replacement skirting board in my Mum’s living room.
My son Paul has become engaged – he’s off to buy the ring tomorrow.
A mainly dry Friday
At the St David’s Hall in Cardiff this evening to see Steeleye Span, a very enjoyable mix of familiar and new arrangements.
A mixed Thursday
At the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning for ‘pre-operative clerking’, examination and ECG prior to my surgery next week.
I’ve completed all the wedding albums and orders and they were all collected yesterday, my accounts have been completed up to the end of November so everything is currently up to date and ready for the next VAT return.
A mainly dry Sunday
We had lunch at John & Ida’s in Pontypridd today, unfortunately they ran out of their excellent home made rice pudding but their home made trifle with massive strawberries was delicious.
I called over to my Mum’s later this afternoon and cut and mitred the replacement piece of skirting board.
A quiet evening but it’s back to making up albums again tomorrow and next week I’ll also be busy with month end accounts and preparing the next VAT return.
A damp Saturday
I received my admissions letter from the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning, I’m going in for further tests next week with surgery scheduled for the following week. 🙁
I spent a lot of time today making up wedding albums, hoping to finish everything tomorrow.
A very wet Friday
I called over to see my Mum this afternoon, she had the new hall, stairs and landing carpet fitted today and it looks very nice. I also bought some new skirting board for her living room to fit in the gap where the fireplace used to be, just need to cut mitres in the new board and fit it in place.
A wet and windy Thursday
I took my Mum to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital this morning, she was convinced that she’d be there for a few hours so insisted that I didn’t wait and she’d phone when she needed a lift home. Three quarters of an hour later she rang to say she was ready. 🙂
I received another delivery from Jorgensen today so it will be all systems go over the next few days to complete the remaining album orders. More fun with the 3M repositionable pressure mounting film. 🙁
A cold Tuesday
I had intended going to my Welsh class this morning, I’ve missed a number of weeks following my recent surgery, unfortunately Julie rang this morning to say that she’s unable to run the class today as she’s not feeling very well. 🙁
I spent the morning applying 3M repositionable pressure mount to a large number of photographs ready to mount them in the albums I’m currently working on. Perhaps one day someone will devise a mounting product that is easy to use, so far this time I’ve avoided cutting my fingers with the scalpel. 🙂
Jason called in this evening to collect the print order from his and Jennie’s wedding. Their Jorgensen wedding album is being delivered this week so their album should be ready at the end of the week. With a bit of luck I should have completed all the current album orders this week.
A damp Monday
Monday is generally the day when I perform the various computer housekeeping tasks on the systems we run here. The routine consists of mainly running various utilities to remove annoying tracking cookies, checking that nothing malicious has managed to get through the various firewalls and archiving old data to DVD or external storage.
I also spent a little bit of time looking at some actions and templates for Photoshop for creating composite album pages, I usually use custom album design software but thought it would be interesting just to try the more manual method of doing it natively within Photoshop.
Here is a little test design I generated. Not sure if I’d use this particular design in a real album but it was fun creating the layout.
