The debonair Basil Marigold's

Who tonight reminded me just how much I love this woman's work and style. So I thought I'd share too. Admittedly she reminded me through her saying how much she hated Bjork. But hey ho, we can't all have my level of class.

I am now of the mind to attempt lots of specific restores and then transferring them into appropriate folders. That's the best way as oppose to filling the C drive and then manually removing all the bits I don't want.

I have had enough of windows Vista. It is quite frankly an awful beast of an operating system. Time for a punt on Windows 7. advertised as taking all the good bits from Vista and taking the rubbish out and building better bits on top. It's good as Vista is bad. Now, migrating from operating systems is never fun at the best of times and this, after all is an upgrade not a full install. Well, that was what it was meant to be until Vista stuffed up and I couldn't perform the upgrade process and after many attempts of bypassing or forcing it through it still didn't want to play ball. so fortunately I backed up the laptop before attempting any upgrade. So, with much gulping the only option available was a full install of the operating system, this, for those who know, involves wiping everything clean from Programmes, to Passwords and Bookmarks, etc. All the annoying stuff that needs reloading and adds on the time involved. This though isn't a huge issue really, in the gran...

Christmas is a day of blessing and a day to acknowledge the unepected. Today I experienced both. Through my love of Jelly Babies, delivered unto me the gift of 3kg's worth. I decided that I should open one of my blessings and Lo, the first one out was this, 'wee' thing. I call it Monster Jelly Baby! Also, as it's also Christmas Day please also note the cross like shape of the Jelly Monster! Coincidence?

I am sat at the computer right now. Having been previously warned by a weather App that the area I live in is due some more heavy snow. As of yet it hasn't arrived, but according to my friend who lives in Nottingham, no more than 9 miles away is reporting heavy snow. I am laughing now but I suspect we haven't been completely missed!

I have seen another gift that I would prefer for christmas this year, from anybody who is willing to show just how much they appreciate me. It is a Globe in a stand; It's great to be aware of your geography isn't? Good to have knowledge of the planet you live on, so why not buy me a globe so I can keep up to date with the world. It is diamond cut mother of pearl gemstone panels, creating a 40" Globe. The Oceans and Seas are mother of Pearl and it is set in a 24kt Gold stand, because? Well, why not. All this for the princely sum of £200,000 it tells me on the website. I have no idea why I came across this website, all I can say is it may have involved me looking at £20,000 fountain pens by Conway Stewart. One of these pens would also be acceptable as a Christmas present, if you are feeling to tight to get me the globe. Thanks in anticipation. Did I mention how much I love my wife?

'A few days ago I found myself in PC World. Not often this happens and it was fairly enjoyable as I haven't window shopped for PC stuff and gadgets in a while, so it was good fun. One of the things I saw and had a chance to have a quick play with is this little beasty; The Apple Ipad. The piece of kit that somehow, and despite not having a market, it appears to have created its own. I cannot say that I was initially a fan. I failed to see how it was an exceptional piece of kit that provided any added value to what you can do with a laptop. It has no USB, It has no Multi tasking functions and it was not cheap. It shouldn't work, when compared with the functionality of for instance a Notebook, which has more functionality and is half the price. Though, now having just physically held one I now know it is exceptionally beautiful. It truly is a wondrous design and feels remarkably substantial and not quite as awkward to hold and use as I previously thought as I checked out...