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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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we are so bloody lazy!

yesterday we had the day planned out:

1) Go to the National Portrait Gallery which has some amazing portraits by Mario Testino on display at the moment (Diana, Madonna you name it) – didn’t go due to heavy rain

2) Go to dinner and then on to see Man and Boy at the cinema – didn’t happen due to big lunch and falling asleep on the couch!

bang – saturday gone 🙁

i did not leave the house all day!

we live in one of the most interesting cities in the world – such a mundane and wasted day is inexcusable………………..

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OK – this is it for a while

this look and feel, whilst not being for everyone, links in with the rest of my website (that is the side to do with photography) i might change the comments and archive sections – and i might not………

at least this was the easiest change so far :vbg:

well it’s just after 23:15 and vic and i have just got home from the local pub (ship and whale) after a great evening with david, claire, richi and fi.  mucho californian sav blanc and not bad food

i love vic 😎

i love my friends :vbg:

life’s not bad

although i felt very old and very fat yesterday i’m over that now!

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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