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06/01/10: A belated Happy New Year as we sit in
our snow bound house, much the same as in the UK, it's all deep and crisp and
even. Just keeping the woodburner going. Speaking of going I'm gutted about Owen
Coyle and surprised he has let Burnley down for Bolton. Principles evaporate
where money is concerned it seems.
19/12/09: Spoke too soon
about Trellian, I'm still having issues so I'm using CoffeeCup as well as,
though I'm not happy with that either yet. Just had first snow here after a very
cold spell (-11 deg C), about 15 cm. Forecast mild for Xmas tho'. All the best
to anybody reading this. Does anybody read this? Please let me know!
02/12/09:
Apologies for delay in updating, the new version of Trellian seems OK now so
I'll stick with that so far. My mate Rae's house burnt down over the summer but
he has just got the go ahead from his insurance so watch out for La Pierre Levee
- le phenix se leve des cendres..
30/06/09: Well done BFC, now Premiership class, what an excellent weekend. I've bought CoffeeCup for my web editor but I've not got to grips with it so I'm still open to suggestions.
21/05/09: Still having problems with the web page editor so if anyone can recommend one I'd appreciate it. On our way to Wembley this weekend to watch Burnley in their play off final. Weir Clarets on the road again!! Wish us luck.
02/02/09:
Apologies for the delay in updating things. This is for a variety of
reasons including some personal ones so I'll not elaborate. Hopefully
things will get back on track. One problem I have encountered is with
the web editor changing links so they don't work, so if you come
across one let me know please.
31/10/08:
I'm 'en France', Christine in the UK. Good break in Elounda but
weather disappointing (see photo on home page!) Sold the Aprilia so
the pic is my last ride out, I'll miss it so take care of it Ian. Got
lots of pics and saw lots of friends, cheers everyone.
29/09/08:
We're off to Elounda for 12 days so a chance to renew friendships and
get some piccies with Christine's new camera.
13/08/08:
Back to the UK for bike service and MOT and hopefully to catch a
Burnley game. Hope it stays dry as I'm riding there.
28/06/08:
I'm back but Christine isn't and she is missing the great weather
we're having here whilst it's crap in the UK. Flaming June eh? (in
both contexts). I shouldn't have said our broadband is more settled
as it has become a bit erratic again. I should be back in the UK
sometime in August but in the meantime I'll be enjoying the solitude
of La Grenarderie (tho' I do get out to Motobreaks for a few beers
with the lads, oh and down to Le Chene Vert to catch up on Euro 2008
- come on Espana!)
03/06/08: Christine is
off to the UK to help her mum so will miss her first French summer
(if it ever comes!). I will be making a brief visit for a few days.
This should give me more time to devote to the website. Also our
broadband seems more settled now but bandwidth is still a problem. We
will revisit Crete, possibly this year to catch up on good friends
(and to get some sun). As I keep saying, send in your pics of Crete
for the Piccy of the month page. I'll probably do something similar
for my French pages so the same applies.
29/04/08: The 'Piccy
of the week' has had to become the 'Piccy of the month' as I'm short
on contributions so anyone out there with pics of Crete please send
them. Christine's mum is poorly so we may not get back to Crete this
year as planned. Shame about the weather at Greek Easter, it was
warmer here in France than Elounda (not now of course)!
15/04/08:
Check out our new home in France, La
Grenarderie.
28/03/08:
We're online but with limited broadband access, ie. 1Mb and that is
when it's working which so far means up to about 8pm when we seem to
lose it. At least I should be able to update more often but I still
need people to send me their pics of Crete etc.
04/03/08:
We're still not online but we're getting there. We now have our own
place in France and have a phone line so broadband is our next
priority. We've moved in and are decorating the farm a room at
a time, pics will appear later. We're in the UK at the moment having
just been to Glyn and Pam's (ex Oasis bar and now running the shop
opposite the Ferryman) wedding at Chadderton, congrats to them both.
We're also going to Steve and Elaine's (ex Roosters) place for
Steve's 50th before we return to France. I'm planning to ride my bike
out, hence the rotten weather at the moment.
*********Drew,
if you manage to read this I got your message but don't have your
email address to reply, can you contact us again please. If anyone
else sees Drew (aka Martin) in Elounda can you let him know about
this message on the Notice board, cheers! ****************
28/12/07:
A belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I apologise for the
lack of updates but we still haven't got our own ISP and are relying
on friends and Internet Cafes. For those of you who haven't heard we
have relocated to France, stopping temporarily at Chez Rae as seen on
the website. We will be looking for our own place in the New Year. We
will still be visiting Elounda and still have our caravan at Vlihadia
so the Cretan link continues, the French side will just be developed
more than it is at present. Now our laptops are wi fi enabled I
should be able to do a bit more work on the site. Cheers everybody
and thanks to our friends in Crete who are keeping an eye on things
(my bike, postbox etc.) for us.
23/10/07: We will be offline
for a few weeks until we get a new Internet Service Provider so there
won't be any updates for awhile. Watch this page for more
details....
25/09/07:
Christine has had to return to England for a week or so as her step
dad, Bernard, died on Saturday night. He had been ill for a long
while but it is still a shock to the system. Our thoughts are with
Christine's mum, Barbara. I used to enjoy a Sunday pint or two
with Bernard when he was more able, I'll miss him too.
05/09/07
I'm back, sacre bleu, it's still hot and humid and the bugs are
biting. They must have missed me; every night I drink alcohol and
every night the bugs drink my alcohol fueled blood, I must be like a
local bar to them, no wonder they hardly bite Christine. The UK was
fine, weather OK, traffic a nightmare, beer good, walking good, QPR
game cancelled but managed to watch Oldham (thanks Dave) and helped
my dad re-felt his (only one) shed roof. France was fine too, helped
reduce the wine lake as per usual, good company, good food and
chilled - long live La Commune de La Pierre Levee!
23/07/07:
Well I'm off back to the UK tomorrow and not returning for a month.
I'll also be spending 18 days in France at Chez Rae's (see our French
page) so it looks like the Piccy of the Week will be Piccy of the
Month for August! I'll also be catching a Burnley game (v QPR,
exciting fixture :-) which hopefully will be entertaining. So it's au
revoir from me and here's hoping the rains stop. Bon
vacances!!
19/07/07: I seem to be getting more hits now, but
not a lot of feedback.. I'd appreciate to hear suggestions to improve
the site; use the feedback form, guestbook or whatever and don't be
embarrassed, it's a learning curve for me too.
26/06/07:
I'm thinking of going to the Sahara to get away from the heatwave. I
always leave Crete in August to avoid the hottest month but this year
June is hotter than August was last year! Temps in the mid 40's (over
110 'F). I'll still be having my 'sabbatical' leaving Christine to
soldier on whilst I lounge in Limousin in August so the site will be
put on hold for a while.
19/04/07:
Zdravey! Just got back from visiting friends in Bulgaria. It was a
hell of a drive, 16 hours actual driving time plus stops and the
ferry. The Bulgarian countryside was lovely, the Sofia ringroad was
hell, and Bulgarian drivers have a deathwish.
28/03/07:
Somebody please leave a message on our Guestbook, I'm fed up of
looking at my orig message. The Guestbook is on the Sitemap page
(brown door!)
27/03/07: Unfortunately our desktop crashed last
week and the hard drive had to be reformatted. Most stuff had
been backed up but not our emails and address book. I've had lots of
earache over this so if you've emailed us recently (in the last
month) can you resend it and even if you haven't mailed us
recently please drop us a line so we can put you back in our address
book (Hello Auntie Pat and Anne!).