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Christmas. A time for family, apparently. In our case, Jane and I went down to her parents' for Christmas, arriving Christmas Eve and leaving today. 3 days seems to be the optimal time to spend, before the arguments start and having Jane's mum out the way most of Christmas day is a blessing :)
I really shouldn't complain - we got some lovely presents. From Jane's parents (and my own) there was money, from Jane (another one) there was a painting of London Theatres (slightly ropey photo can be found here). It's brilliant :)
Also we got a bottle of Vodka, some cushions and a throw, some wine glasses, photo frames, a stylophone, bottles of wine, and more.
I got some Wii games, money as mentioned before, a rather brilliant book, and a promise of clothing from Jane.
Christmas eve we spent in the Punch Bowl in West Felton. It was pleasant but much quieter than I remember it being previously. We even managed to completely miss Jane's parents arriving, a feat neither of us thought would be possible.
Christmas day was spent doing not much, but the evening we had the usual crowd around, Jane's parents' friends and their kids (kids being our age). There was beer, good turkey, pudding of doom, wine, ginandtonnix, whisky and port, all followed by Wii boxing :)
On Boxing Day, Jane's parents went to the Shrewsbury Town match and we were left to ourselves, which was good because standing up was more trouble than I cared to think about, never mind walking anywhere.
This evening I cooked a chicken and have been tidying up as much as I can be arsed to, and looking at nw laptops. Tomorrow we need to put some work into it, do some proper tidying and sorting out of the paperwork. The dining room table has no room for anything unless it's on top of papers.
New laptop - I'm thinking about it. Well, I'm considering using the money my parents gave me (us) towards one. Looking at a budget of £500-ish and want something with decent (pref. separate) graphics card, large (17"+) screen, minimum 3GB RAM and not too fussed about HDD space - though 320GB is probably the smallest one should go for these days. I want something I can do good video full-screen on, and my current just doesn't cope well with it.
Current front-runner for me is The HP DV72110SA which is going for £399 a a refurbished product on PC World's web site, though am open to persuasion.
I really shouldn't complain - we got some lovely presents. From Jane's parents (and my own) there was money, from Jane (another one) there was a painting of London Theatres (slightly ropey photo can be found here). It's brilliant :)
Also we got a bottle of Vodka, some cushions and a throw, some wine glasses, photo frames, a stylophone, bottles of wine, and more.
I got some Wii games, money as mentioned before, a rather brilliant book, and a promise of clothing from Jane.
Christmas eve we spent in the Punch Bowl in West Felton. It was pleasant but much quieter than I remember it being previously. We even managed to completely miss Jane's parents arriving, a feat neither of us thought would be possible.
Christmas day was spent doing not much, but the evening we had the usual crowd around, Jane's parents' friends and their kids (kids being our age). There was beer, good turkey, pudding of doom, wine, ginandtonnix, whisky and port, all followed by Wii boxing :)
On Boxing Day, Jane's parents went to the Shrewsbury Town match and we were left to ourselves, which was good because standing up was more trouble than I cared to think about, never mind walking anywhere.
This evening I cooked a chicken and have been tidying up as much as I can be arsed to, and looking at nw laptops. Tomorrow we need to put some work into it, do some proper tidying and sorting out of the paperwork. The dining room table has no room for anything unless it's on top of papers.
New laptop - I'm thinking about it. Well, I'm considering using the money my parents gave me (us) towards one. Looking at a budget of £500-ish and want something with decent (pref. separate) graphics card, large (17"+) screen, minimum 3GB RAM and not too fussed about HDD space - though 320GB is probably the smallest one should go for these days. I want something I can do good video full-screen on, and my current just doesn't cope well with it.
Current front-runner for me is The HP DV72110SA which is going for £399 a a refurbished product on PC World's web site, though am open to persuasion.
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