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the end of another long bank holiday weekend that is 🙁

vic and i spent it with the rest of the super six at the wee village of thornham, suffolk. the village is on the coast in the east of england and is known for it’s bird sanctuaries.

claire had booked us into this cottage (the virtual tour is cute) and from the looks of it it was built in the 1700’s

the weather wasn’t much cop unfortunately so the weekend was spent playing PS2 (for the boys) and drinking (y’all must think all i do is drink!)

on saturday i was awake early and so went for a walk to the beach just before seven.  after living in the middle of london for four years it is always nice to get out into the country and this was no exception.  it was very strange to have birdsong as the only noise for about 30 minutes.  i took ALL my camera gear but only took about 12 frames the whole weekend due to the weather, most of them on this walk.

sunday we all went to sandringham.  this estate is one the queens estates and is in regular use by her and her family.  it was ok at best and the tour of the house only took in a few rooms.  all in all a bit disappointing for 6 quid really.

sunday nite was spent with vic drinking fluffy ducks and being the cutest i’ve seen her for a while and me making up random drinks with whatever was handy (bad move……)

and that was it!  another weekend spent with friends recovering from hectic weeks.

did anyone else do anything interesting?

a quick update

dad’s out of hospital and is feeling ok. the rat poison seems to have thinned his blood sufficiently, which is nice. he might need a bypass (not sure if it’s double, triple, quad) but has to go and see a specialist at some stage.

i wonder if this freaks him out? besides the physical side of it his mother died on the operating table while undergoing heart surgery.  that’s gotta be at the back of your mind!

my old man is ok

it seems he took himself to hosptial late on sunday night with a recurrence of an old problem – chest pains and falling asleep at the drop of a hat.

he’ll be in hospital for a few days and they are thinning his blood with a drug that is a derivative of rat poison (nice!)

so he’s just as unhealthy as he was before but at least no worse……….

hmmm… had a call from my ex-step-mother (it gets complicated) asking if i knew anything about my father being taken into hospital with heart problems!

no – i said, news to me (note: she lives here in the uk, my father lives in new zealand, about as far away as you can get) so i said i would chase it up and let her know if i heard anything.  (note2:  this was at 23:00 gmt on sunday – 10:00 monday nzt)

so i tried calling my brother only to find that the number has been disconnected! damn!!  at this stage i thought that maybe the number in my palmVx is wrong so call my mother (also in NZ) to confirm the number.  she informs me that my brother moved this weekend and has no landline yet – double damn!!

aha, i think – cellphone!  try my brothers cellphone and it’s not bloody well turned on…………….leave a message (phew)

another idea – call my brother’s wife’s cellphone – another call to my mother gets me this number and at last i can speak to someone that at least cares about my dad to some degree.

no-one knows anything!

so after all that i leave it in Selena’s hands and am off to bed to await a call back at some stage…………….

all the email addresses @marcandvic.com don’t seem to be working

i doubt if anyone that reads this has used them but it also means that i’m not being notified of comments *grrrrrrrr*

hopefully they are cached somewhere and will be sent once my host fixes whatever problems they having……….

20:00 UPDATE:  nexpoint were having MAJOR probs for the last two days but have sorted it out.  emails are slowly filtering thru – YAY!!

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i got bored of the other theme very quickly!

this one seems to be a lot easier on the eye and i spent a few hours 🙁 getting a row of recent pictures down the LHS – they even pop up in their own windows!

my head hurts now so no more pathetic attempts at coding for me today, sometimes i wonder why i bother…….. :dead:

yet another new look – all css this time (except for a few images )

better? – worse? – ugly? – too square?  i just found the previous too effeminate for my mood……

Linda Boreman, who starred as Linda Lovelace in the 1972 pornographic film “Deep Throat” and later became an anti-porn advocate, died Monday from injuries she suffered in a car crash. She was 53

story @ CNN

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