A bit of this and a bit of that

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Well, it’s been a quiet evening .. was expecting at least a couple of trick or treaters. It’s Halloween night, or Hop Tu Naa, as the traditional Celtic feast is called here in the Isle of Man. I haven’t seen kids in costume, or parents ferrying them around or even [...]

Well, the twins are officially 2 days old now, and this is Camille’s third night in hospital. I must say that I’m constantly impressed at how good the staff on the Jane Crookall at Nobles Hospital. All the staff have been great, from the doctors and midwives, all the way down to the support [...]

We’ve spent a quiet weekend enjoying each other’s company and I took the opportunity to clean up a few of my blogs and tidy some things up. I also had the opportunity to catch up on some magazines and even read up a bit about conversion rate optimization, so have some things I want to [...]

I’ve just noticed that my specs have started to develop a greenish tint which seems to be where sweat collects. It comes off easily, but it looks like the coating on the frame has worn away at that location, so it’s time to get some new glasses. It’s been more than a year since I [...]

I recently found out that I had registered a domain with my full name a couple of months back (yeah I had forgotten). I’ve put something up at http://owencutajar.com, but I’m not 100% certain what I’m going to do with the domain. I’m quite happy with this domain here, but I might use it for [...]

I received a package today which was some clothes we bought a week ago from Marks & Spencer. It took a bit longer than expected, but then they did warn us that they had loads of orders that day (they had a 20% off day). I’m trying to move away from geeky T-shirts of which [...]

Have you started receiving Christmas cards yet? We haven’t really started sending ours yet, but some have already come in. There was an ominous envelope yesterday that looked a bit like it contained a tax bill or maybe even term life insurance quotes, but it was really just a collection of cards some friends had [...]

Do you consider yourself traditional or modern? Well, the answer I suspect for most of us is that we’re a mixture of both. For example, I’m well into my gadgets, however would probably shy away from some of the trends I’ve noticed people go for (just watch Little Britain). I suppose the older you get, [...]

I’m going to have to get a new pair of specs soon. Not that I’m having problems seeing; I’m pretty sure my lens prescription hasn’t really changed. However, for some reasons my specs start getting a green thing where sweat builds up. It almost looks like moss, but I’m pretty sure it’s just sweat reacting [...]

I got my hands on an Azor blade the other day which looks like an interesting product to be playing with. The blade is supposed to last for ages so I’m looking forward to giving it a whirl. I know they’re running a campaign here in the UK where they’re visiting different places and giving [...]