Today I went for a walk down the old Grantham canal. We parked up just on the other side of Cotgrave; a small village just to the south of Nottingham. The canal area has gone into ruin due to the lack of investment, even though there had been plans to restore the waterways in the [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Grantham Canal
Posted in Nottingham, tagged Afternoon, Canals, Grantham Canal, Lincolnshire, Walks on July 28, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham
Posted in Nottingham, tagged Holme Pierrepont, National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham on July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today I woke up to yet more rain and I wasn’t sure whether to go walking or not. I looked outside, it was mostly light rain and since I do have shower proof clothing I thought I’d might as well. [Read More]
Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham
Posted in Nottingham, tagged Holme Pierrepont, National Water Sports Centre, Nottingham on July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today I woke up to yet more rain and I wasn’t sure whether to go walking or not. I looked outside, it was mostly light rain and since I do have shower proof clothing I thought I’d might as well.
We went out just after 2pm and drove down to the Embankment near the River Trent. [...]
Shoulder and neck RSI Pain
Posted in RSI on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today the RSI I suffer from came back with large sharp pointy sticks. It started soon after I woke up, I knew I was in trouble as I was feeling really stiff and unable to move without pain. It actually felt like I fell over the day before on ice or something. You know when [...]
Ogston Reservoir, Derbyshire
Posted in Derbyshire, tagged Derbyshire, Ogston Reservoir on July 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s walk was somewhere I have never been before or even heard of; Ogston Reservoir in Derbyshire. It can be found some way off junction 28 of the M1 or by heading out of Nottingham past selston towards Alfreton. [Read More]
Ogston Reservoir, Derbyshire
Posted in Derbyshire, tagged Derbyshire, Ogston Reservoir on July 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s walk was somewhere I have never been before or even heard of; Ogston Reservoir in Derbyshire. It can be found some way off junction 28 of the M1 or by heading out of Nottingham past selston towards Alfreton.
There are numerous places to park around the reservoir, we used one of the free public car [...]
EFH Rebels
Posted in EFH/186K, tagged 86K, ADSL24, Broadband, EFH Broadband, EFH Rebels on July 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The old host for the EFH Rebels message board has closed all his forums as unsuprisingly the advertising revenue wasn’t covering the hosting costs. So, ”xeboards.com” is no longer functioning at all. Steve has set up a free forum else where at: http://efhrebels2.30.forumer.com
The EFH Rebels forum isn’t just restricted to EFH support but is a [...]
Beeston Weir, Nottingham
Posted in Nottingham, tagged Beeston, Beeston Weir, Nottingham on July 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I only went for a small walk down to Beeston Weir since I was still feeling sore from the colonoscopy the week before and I also wanted to look at how flooded the area around the river was. As it turned out, it wasn’t too flooded but there the river was very high and [...]
Beeston Weir, Nottingham
Posted in Nottingham, tagged Beeston, Beeston Weir, Nottingham on July 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I only went for a small walk down to Beeston Weir since I was still feeling sore from the week before and I also wanted to look at how flooded the area around the river was. As it turned out, it wasn’t too flooded but there the river was very high and only bursting [...]
EFH Broadband Morons
Posted in EFH/186K, tagged 186K, Broadband, EFH Broadband, ISP on July 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I don’t believe the email I just got from EFH/186K a couple of minutes ago. Basically, it looks like they are not aware that I have left them 6 months ago and are treating my as an existing customer. What do you have to do get through to them you don’t want there crappy broadband; [...]
