Heading to Skye was an obvious choice give we were already on the main road for Skye via the Skye bridge. We were tempted to go by ferry for part of the journey but saved that for later. I have happy memories of Skye from when I was a child. We set off with no …
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Scotland 08 – Sunday, the first day of our holiday
The priority for today was to get some more fuel and provisions. We had found several garages the day before had no diesel which was a bit worrying as we only had about 70 miles left in the tank. We headed to Inverness, about 35 miles away. If we did not find fuel there then …
Scotland 08 – Holiday time
We have been to Scotland many many times over the years. My parents used to take me regularly and I have picked up the habit. Generally though, when I say Scotland I actually mean the Highlands of Scotland – typically Glen Coe and beyond. We have stayed in Fort William many times. This time we …
Roof box
We have a choice of three cars for the journey to Scotland. My preferred choice was to use my company car: the most comfortable for me, the most fuel efficient, and the one I would prefer to put mileage on. However, even though my company car is a modern Ford Mondeo estate, it is smaller …
Just in time windscreen replacement
I had to wait until yesterday to get my windscreen replaced. Not great given I had first called it in to Autoglass two Saturdays before. They had turned up at my place of work on Thursday the previous week with the wrong glass (so much for call centre staff training) and found that the glass …
Bath mats and low chairs
My knee felt a lot better after a quite settled weekend that did not require me to do much. The drive down on Monday was nice and easy and a physio session in the afternoon helped me a lot – although, as always, I was very uncomfortable for the rest of the day. Sadly Tuesday …
Human NMI – Non Maskable Interrupt
So for those of you who are as ancient as me will recall from your Commodore 64 programmers reference guide: a computer NMI is a computer processor interrupt that can not be ignored by standard interrupt masking techniques in the system. It is typically used to signal attention for non-recoverable hardware errors. So a Human …
Wandering the Internet because I cannot walk anywhere
My knee problems have limited the potential for fun this weekend. The physiotherapist advised me to not sit for more than about half-an-hour without moving my leg BUT to keep off my leg as much as possible this weekend. Hum. I did think about driving somewhere, hobbling a little way and taking photographs but decided …