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Dave Onions - Hitchhiking Extraordinaire

trish — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:44:50 +0000

Makes it to Matt and Phreds in Manchester via Stowmarket, Warwick, Kenilworth and York. Onward to Liverpool, Chester, Rhyl, Birmingham, Cardiff and Bristol.

The National Rail Museum York

trish — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 13:54:21 +0000

Johnny and the Mallard

Johnny and Tortoise

trish — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:28:07 +0000

Tortoise is peering out from under johnny's hood. A kodak moment. Even better i get to photograph it and blog it from my new k800i. Which ironically doesn't have the word blog in it's dictionary.

I got a proper job!

trish — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:28:00 +0000

ahhh! how scary is that?!!! I'm working as a Web Programmer for a PR company called Alkaline in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Project Northumberland

trish — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:20:00 +0000

I went to the Project Northumberland offices today to volunteer to develop a website for them, I'd prepared a little demo site and they liked what they saw. So i've now got a stack of info and tons of photos and I'm going to get it online. I'm going to use Joomla CMS as it will be nice and easy to maintain and has lots of nice features which will be useful to the organisation.

Project Northumberland is a developmental programme, supported by Northumberland County Scouts, which aims to raise the achievements, aspirations and future prospects of disaffected young people to enable them to make the right choices about their future lives.

Hopefully a link will be up soon....

Family Tree

trish — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:48:00 +0000

I got on the bandwagon this week and used the wealth of free internet resources available to attempt to trace my family tree. I was doing quite well for a while but kept getting stuck (being unwilling to pay for certificate copies), until eventually I ran out of branches. This is what I got.

I can't trace any of my mother's family, being from the far east. My paternal great grandparents were from Ireland, which destroyed all it's censuses. My father's maternal great grandmother (Margaret Moore) was born on the Isle of Man in 1843 (unfortunately so were two Margaret Moores). My father's mother's father's mother (Harriet Wakefield), is somehow related (through marriage) to her husband, she is the niece of William Ashton, but again, there are too many Harriet Wakefields. Prior to 1800, records are patchy at best.
I started making an mySQL database to hold the information, but then started trying online family tree software already available, I wasn't particularly impressed, so maybe I'll give the SQL thing another go again soon.

London

trish — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:04:00 +0000

I had a lovely day trip to London on Saturday, Johnny had to go to some pupillage fair, so i joined him on the 3 hour train ride down from Newcastle and met my old housemate Wendy, who i'd not seen for 18 months. We spent a lot of time gossiping and did a small walking tour of London, Covent Garden - Leicester Square - Trafalgar Square - Along Whitehall, past Downing Street and the Cenotaph - Past Westminister and the Houses of Parliament - across Westminster Bridge - and along South Bank to the London Eye. Then we went to the Dali Exhibition, which was very good but over priced at £8.50 (no more concessions for trish!) It's nice to know London is so accessible from here and hopefully there will be another trip soon.

Gallery Sabotage

trish — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:54:00 +0000

Is it a coincidence that the on same day Gallery releases a security fix, mine curls up and dies? It suddenly swelled up to fill all my available space and then refused to be accessed. Could this be someone quickly taking advantage of the publicised security flaw or gallery 'subtly' reminding me to upgrade? More likely I broke it somehow.... Anyway it's annoying - expect there to be a lack of photos for the imminent future.

first blog

trish — Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:50:00 +0000

oh dear, already scored poorly enough on the geek test.

Here Comes the Blog

trish — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:11:00 +0000

Due to popular demand, i.e. complaints that no-one knows where i am or what i'm doing, i'm going to make a concious effort to actually post on this blog. So over a year since my last/first post, here comes the second!