Petes Inner Thoughts, Photos and Stuff

Using windows 8 Developers Preview to post thins, things don’t look as they should but hey ho, its only a first pre release, so lets keep an eye out on how it moves.

Here’s a few snaps of the unusual ways, as normal, that Peterborough office of Virgin Media raise monies for Comic Relief.
A big effort by everyone involved and alot of money was raise for people less fortunate than ourselves.
Well done.

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It’s that time of year again, Christmas just round the corner, Noddy Holder is cashing in again, the wife commenting on the Fairy Tale of New York video “wow have you noticed that the bloke in that hasn’t got any teeth”.

All is as it should be, and then you hear that dreaded sentence; “Can you pop to Tesco’s tomorrow after work?”

Oh crapola, can I rather gouge out my eyes with a blunt spoon I think, but the words that come out are actually “of course I can babes”. Oh the delights of no parking spaces, the organisational skills of management of the store who think that to add to every husbands woes should be added to by stocking shelves using industrial sized, isle hogging monoliths that carry 236 cases of cherry cola pushed along by the overweight fat-lad that worked his way up to looking after the soft drinks isle. (That could just be Peterborough’s Hampton store but you get my gist.)

But it’s fine, I’m a bloke, I know exactly what I need, this won’t take long, a quick dash round grabbing those all important things on my list such as cocktail sausages, Turkish delight, sherry just in case my mum comes round ( she hasn’t in 10 years, but you never know – be prepared), and goods such that every household has to have over the festive season.

It is meant to be the season of good will to all men however that feeling will never flows through my body as I try to get out of my head the looped Christmas dittys that plays over the £5.99 audio system in the store. Are Cliff Richards or Johnny Mathis not dead yet?

Shit, it’s tomorrow I have to do it, I am so not prepared. Tesco Hell it is for me, why oh why did I not book a home delivery slot this year?

Here are a few pics of the most stubborn dog on the planet

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My son Andy is on Bass. This was taken at Rockingham Raceway about 4 years ago.
Andy makes me feel very proud. He is now at University studying Music Journalism.

I may have over done a few, but it’s a learning curve. It doesn’t help that I don’t have perfect colour vision, hence my black and white images seem to work better.

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Edited in Adobe Lightroom. Nikon D3000.

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I haven’t had chance to run these through Lightroom yet as my main PC is still in need of some TLC. Will get round to doing it once the “beast” is up and running.

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Here are a few pics of my Soarer. It’s debadged, paint changed to Silver, with body kit.

Few things to do, the video console is temperamental, door panel needs replacing, but hey ho, it’s a lot of car for the money.

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