Another fairly quiet day. A little more work installing software on the pc, I keep finding programs that I’ve been using on the notebook that haven’t been configured for the desktop.
No Welsh class this evening, quite strange being at home on a Wednesday evening.
Prepared a large set of print files to send to the lab for printing, probably the last batch before Christmas.
Trip to the village to post letters and the order to the lab.
Shopping at Tesco, Talbot Green this evening.
Watched the concluding episode of Secret Smile on television, Jill Baker who is the sister of Richard Baker, my boss when I worked at the Principality Building Society, was in the cast.
An outpatient appointment first thing this morning, adjustments to my digital hearing aid.
Into Pontypridd this affternoon for mainly window shopping and then called in to see my cousin Glen at his garage in Graigwen.
A quiet and relaxing work free day.
Took the girls to the Hollybush for Sunday lunch, everyone had roast beef but with a mix of desserts, Claire had just custard, Gill had cheescake and I had the apple pie and custard.
We then strolled around the corner to visit my mum, here’s a photo of Claire, Mum and Gill.
Claire and Gill left at around 4:30 for the long drive back to RAF Marham.
A late lunch at Harry Ramsdens and then a leisurely stroll around, visiting the Millennium Centre, passing the new Assembly building which is still under construction and taking in the changes since we were there last.
A snap of Gill with statues, Gill is a F1 fan, in case you can’t tell from the jacket!
A few more snaps of Cardiff Bay at dusk.
A relaxing evening watching old British comedy on the television.
We went to the Museum of Welsh Life at Saint Fagans on the outskirts of Cardiff. It’s a fascinating place with buildings from around Wales having been dismantled and transported there and re-built and restored. It was very quiet there apart from a few visitors and a small number of school groups. It requires a full day to see everything, it’s also a good opportunity for me to practice a little Welsh as all the staff speak the language fluently.
David called in, ran out of petrol and once again ‘borrowed’ the contents of my petrol can!
Claire made a carrot cake, here’s a photo of Gill and Claire ‘secretly scoffing’ the excess topping.
Apparently bacon tastes great with the carrot cake topping 🙁 as a result Claire has to cook more bacon, photographic evidence that she can cook!
I now have the Palm synchronisation software working on the pc, the first run of the software took a little while!
Claire and Gill arrived from Norfolk to stay over the weekend.
I now have most of the software fully working on my main pc. It’s surprising how much the configuration of two computers can change over time when one is used as the main machine and the other used mainly as a back up. While all the Windows updates and essential imaging software have been kept in sync a number of applications have only been used on the one computer.
Welsh class this evening, the last one until after Christmas.
I’ve been becoming increasingly frustrated with my ageing Sony Vaio laptop so today decided to start using the main pc at my desk downstairs. The idea is sound but the practicalities of copying my emails and settings from the notebook were tedious, why do two almost identical installations decide to store default files in totally different locations? It was a few hours work to make sure that everything was synchronised between the two machines.
We shopped at Tesco in Talbot Green today, we also had the turkey lunch, the stuffing balls were very nice but everything else was rather poor. Leekes in Pontyclun however generally provide an excellent ‘home cooked’ lunch – we should have visited them first!
Fitted a new battery to my mum’s car, she hasn’t changed it for a few years and it was beginning to struggle in the cold mornings we’ve been having recently.