I haven’t posted any photo’s of Eddie in an age, we went on a walk in Derbyshire that was very pleasant indeed.

The walk started at the Druids Inn, or at least I think that was what the pub/restaurant is called, its a swanky place which has recently been taken over the same guy who runs the Thyme restaurant in Sheffield, if the nosh is only even half as good as Thyme it would be well worth checking out, and you couldn’t possibly ask for more idelic surroundings.

There were some Bronze Age stones laid out in a circler manor half through the walk, possibly meant to be the highlight but it just looked like some weathered stones to me, still you do get the eerie feeling that some witchcraft had taken place and Eddie seemed right in there.

More Derbyshire pr0n. Speaking of Eddie, he’s got some mysterious growth in between the pads of one of his paws and he gets vicious if you fiddle with it, I think it might be a blister, but it’s most unlike any blister i’ve ever had. Still, I think I’d have weird growths on my feet if I walked everywhere bare-foot. It’s his own silly fault for being a dog.

Had a rather annoying day yesterday. Went to the royal mail sorting office to collect a parcel I had missed. When I saw the package I knew straight away that it was an SATA HD USB2 Adapter I had bought super cheap style from an ebayer based in Hong Kong of all places. Tell you what though, I walked there and I felt a right tit walking the streets while grasping Chairman Mao. Still, it would make a great start to anyones stamp collection. So when I got back and went up to try out the new fangled contraption the obvious happened… somehow, since gutting my old PC the HD had perished. Well, I’m presuming it has, HD Clicks.m4a. Doesn’t sound good does it. Luckily, hitachi’s website has a form for entering the drives serial number and it will tell you whether it qualifies for an RMA. It did! Woo!. Hmm, ah, look at the freaking packaging instructions! Here’s my favorite bit..

Use thick foam rubber to secure the hard drive on all sides during shipment or use a GeoSprings kit (a specially approved box with plastic spacers).

and

DO NOT USE foam peanuts, bubble wrap, cloth, paper, newspaper, or padded envelopes.

Nothing like making things tricky. What I don’t get is, why go to this care?… ITS BROKEN! What the heck is a geosprings kit? And where the heck do you go to buy foam rubber? Grrr

Went to take Eddie for a walk in the country, some place called Lineker (sp?) near Chesterfield. Lovely walk set around a cluster of reservoirs. Anyway, took quite a funny photo, I’ll leave you to come up with the caption.

With it being quite a mild day we took Eddie the PBGV with a big heart into the country for a wee constitutional. Some place called Little Longstone, near the start of the Monsal trail. Unfortunately the rest of country had also chosen today to visit this tiny village, took an age to find somewhere to park and eddie was starting to stress and pant, poor thing still isn’t too keen on cars. 2nd problem was that we couldn’t work out a way to get to the trail that didn’t involve hiking across muddy fields, once the muck was up to our knees we figured we’d best give up on the idea. So we did the obvious thing and set off for the lovely pub in the centre of the village, and we were walking up the lane with Eddie when we heard a large rumble, and some hysterical barking and I think I now know what it must be like to be hit by an enormous tidal wave, except rather than being composed of water; this was a tide of bloodhounds. The thousands came wooshing around the corner and I had to grab Eddie so he wasn’t washed away, all barking wildly they scraped past my legs almost knocking me over but barely noticed me as they were concentrating hard on their mission. Soon behind came the hunters all giggles and ahoys on horseback, shouting hi at me and Eddie. Does owning a Dog make us one of them?? Shudder. And why is it that I go all my life haven’t never seen a hunt taking place, and then do so as soon as it’s made illegal?

Do you like my portrait of Eddie? Haha, my illustrator skills are coming along a treat.

I could have sworn that I had plenty to talk about today but i’ve gone blank. Boohoo de dedally doo. I gave my mum a dvd of her photo’s today, with a fancy menu and the photo’s faded into each other and she said woah you must have spent hours on that! She doesn’t know about macs. Muwahaha. Ahum.

Eddie had his first ever outing into the luvely derbyshire countryside yesterday. He was loving it, until he discovered how far 6 miles is and has been sleeping it all off ever since. Bless. It’s so cute when he runs out of steam and stops to stare at you with those take pity on me eyes. Is it me or does he appear to be drinking water on the moon in that photo?

Apparently the sony rootkit nastiness includes GPL’d software in a fashion that contravenes the software’s license. I luv all this, its about time Sony were taken down a peg or five.

This is driving me nuts? What the hell was I going to write about? It was so thrilling as to span for pages and pages and take the internet by storm. OK that’s possibly an exaggeration. On radio 4 this morning during one of those some people sitting around a table discussing everything and nothing type shows someone was discussing the importance of blogging in strict countries such as Iran, countries were certain people, namely females, are completely discriminated against. The blogging is important because it allows iranians and their ilk to suddenly discover that there are others who feel the same about their government who censors virtually any public discussion of, well almost everything it seems. The radio show had a certain resonance for me because the other panellists who were agreeing and getting excitable over the implications were the kind who have previously written the internet off as nothing more than a playground for the perverted. For instance (and only brits will know who i’m talking about) one of the panellists was ian hislop, and another was AA Gill. Ack its just great to know that their generation has finally been won over.

I ordered some of choice stationery’s cheapest ink the other day and it turned up in these oh so hilarious mock Easyjet boxes.

Tune in tomorrow to see me whestling with pregnant panda’s and for an opportunity to test my knowledge of Cairo’s most desirable lamp-posts.