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McAfee Internet Security

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I used McAfee Internet Security for many years but some time ago I decided to use AVG as a replacement and was very pleased with its functionality and efficiency.  AVG had also faired much better in a number of past reviews.

Having recently made the change to fibre broadband my new ISP provides McAfee Internet security as a free add on so I decided that once again I’d give it a try.

The lack of the previous spam filtering functionality was a disappointment but the fact that Windows Networking was blocked between my networked computers was a major annoyance.  I opened the appropriate ports and enabled the appropriate functions within the McAfee firewall without success.

I will be reverting to my previous security products and I doubt if I’ll ever use McAfee products again in the future.

Wednesday and it’s all white outside

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Dydd Gwyl Dewi – St David’s Day

About half an inch of snow this morning which cleared around ten o’clock when the sun came out. Visited Leekes and had a look at shower cubicles and bathroom suites and also had lunch there. On the way back called over to see my mum but as usual see was out!

Good news from Vonage, they’ve reduced the monthly fee for the service from £9.99 per month to £7.99 per month, even better value!

Es i dosbarth nos yn y clwb rygbi, Pentre’r Eglwys noswaith yma, dysgais i Cymraeg. I went to Welsh class at the Rugby Club in Church Village this evening.

Called in to see my mum this evening – she was in!

A cloudy Monday

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A nice start to the day, a bride who had cancelled her wedding plans for later this year rang to say that the wedding had been re-scheduled, luckily we’re still available for her new date and we’ve now re-booked her wedding. 🙂

Wedding dates for 2007 and 2006 are steadily booking and we’re also receiving enquiries for 2008, we always advise people to book early to avoid disappointment, we only photograph one wedding a day so once we’re booked the date is no longer available. When we first started photographing weddings in the early 90s people generally arranged their wedding a year or two in advance, many people still do this but in recent years there seems to be more of a trend towards people making the arrangements three to six months before the wedding. This unfortunately often means we are already booked on their wedding date. The shortest notice wedding we have so far booked is a week before the ceremony, I believe the couple had booked the venues over a year in advance but didn’t make all the other arrangements until just before. Another interesting trend over the last few years is that the ‘traditional wedding season’ has shifted to later in the year, when we started April, May and June were often our busiest months with weddings begining to slow in September. Over the last few years the early months have been less popular with a large number of weddings continuing through to October.

We are very lucky that in South Wales we have a very wide range of beautiful venues from small country house hotels, castles, former stately homes to up market modern hotels, with such a wide range of lovely venues there is less of a need for couples in the area to arrange their weddings on a Sunday due to limited venue availability, although we are now starting to see a marked increase in the number of Friday weddings and a slow increase in Sunday weddings over the last couple of years.

I’m very grateful to Rhys Wynne who tried to post a comment to one of my posts and was kind enough to email me letting me know that there was a problem with the comment processing. I’ve now fixed the problem. 🙂