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It would seem that London’s tree’s are feeling depressed and need cheering up !

The boys left this morning for a weeks break in Sitges. ahhhhh, a whole week with the place to myself. Here’s hoping they come back sunned and relaxed/recharged :o)

before the holiday

Well, Brighton Pride did not fail to disapoint again this year. We arrived at the train station in what was quite warm dry weather, we had such high hopes.

But after watching the parade for half an hour and then following the tail end of it up to Preston Park things started looking not so good.

By the time we had navigated our way across the park and into the Wild Fruit tent, the skies opened and did dump down some serious water……all afternoon.

But we were undercover and dry and therefore did not care too much about it….until it came to time to leave. It was like trying to get across a much thicker version of the Florida wetlands.

On the plus side, we did get to see some cool lesbian mud wrestling, on the minus side we now have a pile of mud encrusted clothing and footware that will require a hunt for and trip to the nearest laundrette (don’t want to put all that mud through my washing machine, it might not make it !)

Thanks to all our friends who either came down with us or we saw there on the day. You guys and girls rock.

lesbians (assumed !) in the mud

Just saw this going on in Carnaby Street at lunch time. no idea what’s going on, but clearly this bodes badly for my choice of career :oO

we're all fucked !

I had a quick conversation with my father over the weekend. I rang him quite early on father day (sunday) as owning a restaurant I assumed he would be somewhat swamped with bookings for doting children taking Dad out for a meal to reward him for all his efforts over the years.

Apparantly not. He had just over x40 covers booked in for the whole day (1 cover = 1 family I am assuming here). When I tried to ring him on mothers day (unrelated call, it just happend to be mothers day when I rang him) he explained he loved me very much but had over x240 covers booked in for mothers day and could I call him some other time and hung up !

240 to 40, or 6 to 1 ratio for mums to dads. I mentioned this to a friend who confirmed a similar pattern of inequality in his family. “Yeah, my dad rings before mothers day and has a mini panic attack checking I got her card and some chocs or flowers or something and that I will be visiting her on the day……it’s like he’s scared or something”.

“and what does your mother do about fathers day ?” I ask.

“oh she just rings on the day and asks if I got him a card and if not did I want to say hello to him quickly !!”.

the equality also stretches to the amounts people spend on each parent. these reports for spending on mothers and fathers day show that mum clearly gets a bigger slice.

2009 mothers day spend

2009 fathers day spend

Possibly this difference can be attributed to there being a greater range of gifts for mum to choose from on the day ? I must confess that I was never quite sure what to do about fathers day in my youth. Was it a day I was supposed to do more with dad or a day to give him a break from me ? He is also not the easiest person to buy gifts for, he always seems to be working and his only hobby that I can recall is fishing, not an area where I have any kind of expertise.

Oh well, socks again I guess !

So….. a friend of mine who is also a bit of a tech-head told me how he started a blog as somewhere to dump information on his findings in the field of IT and all things tech related.

It sounded like a cool idea, so I installed WordPress and copied suite. It will be handy to be able to jot down all those little gems you discover and then subsequently forget and spend days/weeks/months trying to re-discover again at a later date when there’s a load of pressure on ! :o/

Given that my job involes working with Microsoft, Cisco and Unix/Linux based systems and technologies, most posts are probably gonna be about the pitfalls I hit from day to day…..