MOTs and garages

by Ian Posted on October 4, 2005

I’m fated to have fun with getting cars through the MOT.

I took Jo’s car with me to work for a service and MOT. It was going to be really simple. The garage would collect it at 10am, service it, get the MOT and return it at 4pm.

In reality the car was collected at 9am, so far so good. At 2.40pm they rang to say the car had failed the MOT on the rear brakes and that it was just going in for the service. At 4.45pm I rang the garage to see what was happening, ‘We’re delivering it back to you aren’t we’ raised my hopes. At 4.58 the garage rang to say that they didn’t have the discs and that the car wasn’t safe to drive. Great, I’m now stranded in Milton Keynes. So Jo had to bundle the kids in my car and come and collect me.

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New Zealand update

by Ian Posted on October 1, 2005

I had another email from New Zealand this morning and then a 25 minute phone call this evening. I still seems strange to be discussing family tree with someone that I didn’t even know existed 1 month ago. During the conversation, we were discussing some photos that he had found, and it soon became obvious that we were looking at photos of my father and my mother with my cousins taken at my aunt and uncles house in 1965. I soon found the same photos in an album here. It was really weird to be looking at the same photos from 1965 as someone the other side of the world. At the moment, we don’t know who was in contact to be sending the photos to New Zealand.

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Computer Suite

by Ian Posted on September 30, 2005

During a visit to the school today, I converted the computer suite across to using the new network account. This account is set with a mandatory profile, so that the machines will remain as they have been configured. This should save a lot of work maintaining the desktop configuration. There were a couple of initial problems with applications not running under the new account, but these were resolved with permission changes.

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PSA recruitment drive

by Ian Posted on September 27, 2005

The school is on a major recruitment drive for the PSA. At last night’s poorly attended Annual General Meeting, the existing PSA officers all stood down. There was only one person who expressed a desire to become a PSA officer. There will be an Extraordinary Annual General Meeting of the PSA on Tuesday 10th October for prospective new officers.

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Flight of the Nighthawks

by Ian Posted on September 25, 2005

I finished reading Raymond E. Feist’s latest book Flight of the Nighthawks late last night. This is the first book of the Darkwar Saga, but continues directly from the end of the Conclaves of Shadows trilogy. I found the first couple of chapter slow starting, but then it was difficulty to put down. Definitely in my opinion Feist at his best.

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Results from 1861 Census

by Ian Posted on September 24, 2005

I spent time yesterday working through my family tree, looking for everyone in the 1861 census. I have found a lot of the older generations and even identified some of their parents and siblings. Some are a bit elusive, but I’ll come back to them another time.

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