Eastbourn pier

Eastbourn pier
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Possible new author to try

A colleague has recommended to me a series of books that he has enjoyed reading.
it is a series called "The Medieval Murderers" by C. J. Sansom (yes that is spelt correctly).
They sound quite interesting.

Uk dialling codes

Every so often I come across a phone number and try to recall whee it is from.

On this occassion I was looking for 01932.
Resorted to google and eventually worked out that it was Weybridge.
However I also found a wikipedia article listing them.

Hello ducks

Hello ducks
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There's a river bank here somewhere

There's a river bank here somewhere
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The outlook for Christmas is over cast.

The outlook for Christmas is over cast.
Originally uploaded by shivaseye

The outlook for Christmas is over cast.

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Things that fall on the car overnight.

Things that fall on the car overnight.
Originally uploaded by shivaseye

Things that fall on the car overnight.

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Breakfast at the airport

Breakfast at the airport
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Picnic spot for lunch in an atrium at Guys

Picnic spot for lunch in an atrium at Guys
Originally uploaded by shivaseye

Dad finally gone in to theatre so we found a spot to have lunch

Waiting for the missionaries

Waiting for the missionaries
Originally uploaded by shivaseye

Birthday elevenses

Birthday elevenses
Originally uploaded by shivaseye

Birthday elevenses

Guinea fowl at the window before breakfast

Guinea fowl at the window before breakfast
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Guinea fowl at the window before breakfast

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The queue to vote before us

The queue to vote before us
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The queue to vote before us

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The queue to vote behind us

The queue to vote behind us
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The queue to vote behind us

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Thornton got near a chocolate and banana pastie

Thornton got near a chocolate and banana pastie
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Thornton got near a chocolate and banana pastie

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Thornton geocaching with Shelley for the first time

Thornton geocaching with Shelley for the first time
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Thornton geocaching with Shelley for the first time

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Tigger lilies

Tigger lilies
Originally uploaded by shivaseye

Tigger lilies

Hmmm - the problem with trying to blend blogs and docs.....

The problem with blogs is that they are great for web stuff, e.g. pictures and text, but sometimes embedding things that were designed for other environments gets complicated.

Apart from any error messages about documents not being found (in previous post) the major problem is that the right hand side of the embedded document gets overlayed by the bar at the side. This is not quite what we were aiming for and means that a big chunk of the embedded iframe is not visible.

I may have to revert to something more complicated.....

Testing embedding from google docs

I have been trying to help my mother-in-law with getting a googledocs presentation viewed properly by everyone on the distibution list. In desperation she has resorted to trying to embed the thing in a blog http://gsbdigest.blogspot.com/ . This has developed further complications, some of which are similar but not quite identical to the ones we experience earlier.
In an attempt to find a workable solution that requires minimum interaction from the viewers I am trying to duplicate some of the embedding here.

The blog finally reverts to the original purpose :)

I tested a selection of parameters....
large document, medium document in large iframe
medium document, large document in medium iframe.

As an example I have left them below but I found the following

1. large in medium cut big chunks off.
2. medium in anything sometime lost bits at the bottom of the page.
3. large seems to look okay (at least in preview)
   

I shall see what it looks like once I publish the photos.

large


Medium with large iframe


Medium


Large with medium iframe

Fwd: Royal festival hall

Original
Just a quickie. Just visited the chocstar van. Www.chocstar.co.uk and
now killing time before the Kodo drummers start this evening.

Update
This should have been posted at around 6:30pm today. However due to a wetware malfuntion (I put in the email address from memory and got it wrong) it went nowhere.

The trip was part of the birthday celebrations for my wife ( tiggyhedge.blogspot.com ).
The Kodo drummers were amazing. Their website is www.kodo.or.jp.

The chocstar van is definitely worth tracking down and visiting. When we first arrived at Southbank we knew that the van (aka Jimmy) would be at the slow food market and made a bee-line for it. Mrs_tiggy (aka bio-hazar) had the original (brownie, vanilla ice cream and hot chocolate sauce) sundae and I had the challenger (blondie, chocolate ice cream and butterscotch) . If you want pictures then you will have to wait for my wife to update her blog, she is waiting for the pictures to upload first.

After wandering through the market, trying some samples, having a lamb burger (cooked in front of our eyes) for an evening meal and wandering along the riverbank we headed back via Chocstar again and Bio had a "Make it a Jamaican" to drink.

There are more details but that is enough for now. Check out my wife's blog or wait and see if I get around to adding further updates if you want to know more.