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Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:41 PM

It's been a busy month so hence no posts lately.  We went camping on my birthday weekend to Thurston Manor which resulted in coming home early sunday morning due to strong winds. I also needed to rebuild my laptop due to it running to a hault with the amount of cr@p that was on it.  For £40 from Asda this tent took a serious battering but it was fine. Money well spent.  Think next time we go camping we check the weather before going. Overall was very impressed with the asda tent.

Thurston Manor, well what can I say.  The people we met were friendly and very helpful.  The onsite shop was reasonably priced and had a lot of things to offer.  The other onsite facilities included a clean toilet/shower block, a football pitch, play park and "the Glen".  The site was quite busy with a range of tents and caravans.  We're planning another weekend down there soon when the weather is better.  I would recommend this camp site.

You would think that rebuilding a laptop wouldn't take much time, however when you can't find the drivers disk then it can put a hold on things.  After doing a windows update and installing all my development tools I saw light at the end of the tunnel.  Then I realised that there is a service pack for Visual Studio 2005.  I started the install around 1pm and it didn't complete till 2.30 which I personally think is quite long.

My contact form will be back online soon enough along with style updates that will cater for I.E. 7 and will change the way the top navigation looks.

Till next time stay safe




Filed Under [ Life | Mountain Biking | Camping | ]

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# re: Back Again
Posted by Andrew Kemp on 6/6/2007 9:09 AM
Well the camping was fun woke up on the sunday moring and your Tent had dissapeared, so had you, renne and islay! thought the wind couldn't have been that strong :D.
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Posted by Si Philp on 6/6/2007 9:18 AM
Our £40 asda tent served us proud :)
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# re: Back Again
Posted by Andrew Kemp on 6/12/2007 1:59 PM
and my £150 tent was a total disaster the shop could not repair it had to replace it instead!
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Posted by Andrew Kemp on 6/12/2007 4:45 PM
Got my new tent now tho!
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Posted by Si Philp on 6/12/2007 4:48 PM
Still not showing you gravatar. You sure you didn't mark it x-rated?
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Posted by Andrew Kemp on 6/12/2007 4:56 PM
I did should be working now
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Posted by Si Philp on 6/12/2007 8:55 PM
You should of kept the x-rated picture :P Think when i get time it's fixing comment formatting......

You managing ok with subtext skinning? I can send you over the snow board one i done?
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Posted by Andrew Kemp on 6/13/2007 10:38 PM
Aye if I can look at your snowboarding one that would be cool, thinking about doing something along the mountain biking lines....
using the email now too :D
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