Failure is the Key to Success

Britsh Telecom have teamed up with Ancestry.co.uk to host historical phone books. Initially they are mainly from London and the surrounding area.

Still, I have been able to find some of my ancesters in the 1960′s and 1970′s. This confirms addresses and in some cases provides information that I didn’t have before.

I have been having increasing problems with spam emails recently and so decided to do something about it. I have installed Spam Assassin and integrated it with my mailserver (Hmailserver). It does a resonable job of identifying most of the spam, but some of the image based ones are still getting through. Hopefully as I train it, the performance will get better.

We had the afternoon free of the school run today and so we went up to Hobgoblin to have a look at guitars for Jo.

Jo has a classical guitar that she has played for many years and was considering a new guitar to allow her to develop more. The classical had quite a wide neck for her small hands and so it made some chords difficult (if not impossible).

We went into the shop and explained what she was looking for. The first guitar suggested was perfect; she did try several others, but this just suited all requirements. It is an Ami guitar in Antique Burst made by Art & Lutherie, a brand of Godin Guitars.

We also bought a tin whistle for our daughter who was very patient while Jo checked out the different guitars. Unfortunately we forgot to pick up the bag with it in when we left. I rang the shop and they were prepared to post it to us, even though it was our fault. As I work in Milton Keynes it will be easier to collect it after work tomorrow.

[Edit] 15th Sept. Collected tin whistle this evening and everyone happy.

I had a collection to make today that was about 2 minutes away from CadburyWorld in Bournville. So, to make the best of the day we all went to CadburyWorld; it was about a 2 hour drive, so we couldn’t not go there really.

We got there about 9:45 and so went around the back to the playground with the kids until it opened at 10:00. You all get free chocolate samples when you go in and you are not rushed at all. There is everything from the history of chocolate to the advertising. The staff in the demonstration area made working with chocolate look so easy. It really is suitable for all ages and was a great day out