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• Landrover prepped for green laning this afternoon with a Jeep driver who wants to know what it's all about. #
• Back from some delightful green laning in the Surrey Hills. Hello to all the other Landrover enthusiasts having fun today. #
• About to have Toad-in-the-Hole for supper. And a beer. #

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Today I took the Landrover and a friend from the village for a small green laning expedition. Guy has a Jeep, and was wondering what all the fuss was about – so I offered a few weeks ago to go out with him to see what it was like.

We did a few lanes – past Coldharbour cricket pitch towards Leith Hill Tower and then back to the road, Coldharbour to Wooton – a long and varied track with some awesome views of Dorking, and then we went to Ranmore and trundled gently down to the back of East Horsley.
That was three attractive and relatively straightforward runs – Guy got a chance to drive, and we had a very pleasant afternoon out in the sunshine. Not very muddy, and we met a small convoy of various Landrovers on the Leith Hill track. Plenty of walkers and some crazy cycle riders who whizzed past without warning.

• Back in the swing of things. Two weeks in SW England with no net connection beyond a bit of damp string was actually rather relaxing! #
• It's so wet that there's a puddle in the foot-well of the Landrover. Must be the way the rain is falling. #
• Just finished (for the moment) a big tranche of work for http://www.variety.com Mucho Fun & Frustration! #
• Just been into town to buy some Fireworks for G's party on Tuesday. They only had the "bigger" box collections. Clever retail strategy. #
• Nice ice cream from the deli called "Taste of Europe" in South Street (at the old PDSA HQ). #
• Rustling up some supper with leftovers: http://tinyurl.com/2f72gln #
• Just had a ten minute power-cut south of Dorking – hardly long enough to invoke all the standby systems (or find a torch & candle!). #

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• More fun with mod_rewrite rules and blog changes with legal repurcussions to complete quickly. Nice challenge. #
• Wrestling completed. Gadget-master blog now at http://bit.ly/cQBLff #
• RT @samblackledge: http://twitpic.com/2bsje8 – Dorking brewery << Here's another Dorking brewery: http://twitpic.com/2bsmnh #
• never a guard on train when you want a ticket HLM-SUO expect hassle at SUO. #TRAINTALES #
• Packing – clothes, toothbrush, beach gear: Easy! Technology – impossible decisions about what to take or leave…. #

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• EDF fixed contract ends. Wrestling with price comparisons. EDF site itself seems to have almost no hard data to help. Hard work! #
• findlater #
• Helping sort out DNS records. #
• Currently watching RedBull X-Fighters: WOW! That's an astounding way to use a motorbike! Stupendous! #
• Authentic Navy rum: Yours for £600 a bottle http://reg.cx/1K3H < So tempting. #
• Eating fish and chips picnic with the family whilst sitting in the car looking at the view on the Cotmandene #
• Nice handful of runner beans constitutes our first crop. Guess what we're having for supper! #
• Just emptied the big (very big) paddling pool as the water was getting a bit murky. Grass will probably be greener in the morning! #

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• I seem to be inhetiting a hugely badly maintained and quite big database of a DNS portfolio. #poisonedchalice #
• More problems since before the weekend with O2 signal at home. Spent 30+mins in phone to O2 getting nowhere. #o2fail (again!) #
• At a wedding in Brockham #

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• Faking a style sheet file to make alerts go away. #
• Oh good. Result. The rats have been checking out the bait. A few more days and I'll have to add some more. #
• Rats have started taking the bait. Quick off the mark, so rebaiting this evening and hoping they'll be gone before too long. #
• MTBLOG:MailSrever Test http://blogs.rbi.co.uk/editors/pt-test/2010/07/mailsrever-test.html #
• attending a perf of Charlie & Choc Factory at the Weald School, Beare Green #
• Champagne Cocktails – just for practice. Cork went over fence, unknown man said "Ow!". Oops! #

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• Time for a Pimms, relaxing in the garden. #
• RT @b3cft: may have found my new office chair http://bit.ly/c5hTLB < It says "Used" in the listing – was that with a pilot attached? #
• Bought >>96 diesel and asked for football medals; was given a bag with almost 200 inside. Daughter ecstatic! #
• Waiting for Shrek in 3d to start. Had to buy another set of the special glasses. we ought to keep this set in the car. #

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• Fun today removing problematic bits of Javascript from someone's blog. Actually the real cause can't be removed, just the bits it messes up. #
• Fault diagnosis: Developers: Please know what your code is supposed to do & what resources it uses b4 asking why it doesn't work! #
• Helping bloggers make posts in the right blogs!! #
• Well – that was an hour or so sorting out a memcached/MovableType bug (again!). Works OK now, so that's good. #

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Just a quick note that I was playing some more with Facebook this evening. For some reason I find it just a tiny bit creepy — but it seems to never fail to find someone else from my past that I start to wonder about how they’re getting on. Creepy, but completely fascinating and almost entrancing!

Anyway, this is, at least, another blog post to keep the darn thing alive – I really MUST get back into the habbit of posting regularly!