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Christmas
Well, a decent Christmas was had by all, and a decent haul of presents this year. Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Gold Edition, for geeking around the virtual skies for hours on end. A couple of other PC games too - Bioshock (oldish, but good I hear), FarCry 2 (ditto!), Grand Theft Auto IV. Some CDs that I've been meaning to get for ages - Leftfield/Leftism, Just Jack/Overtones and Fall Out Boy/Infinity on High. Some Cat Tracks for my ski boots, plus a bunch of other stuff.
On top of all that, I've got a new car to look forward to! No, it wasn't a Christmas present, it's because our car is falling to pieces and we got £3,500 off the new one as part of the current scrappage deal. I just need it to arrive before the old car dies now!
So, I hope you all had a good Christmas, and I hope you're looking forward to 2010 as much as I am!
Santorini photographs
Two new photo albums from my recent trip to Santorini (Greek island):
- Sam & Keith's Wedding, at Santo Winery on 24th September 2009
- General photographs from the holiday
Spendthrift
Well, what with one thing and another I seem to have been a bit of a spendthrift this month.
First, I bought myself a pair of ski boots - and if anyone out there is wondering if it's worth it... well, it is. I can't believe ski boots could be so comfortable! I got them from Filarinskis in Havant, who I can heartily recommend. They also gave me a voucher to try them out for an hour on Southampton's dry ski slope (which they also manage). Dry skiing is, it's fair to say, very weird! All in all, the boots were pretty comfortable - I had slight muscular/feet aches, but nothing like I'd have had with hire boots, and probably mostly down to it being a long time since I'd last skied, along with tension and bad technique on the dry slope.
Secondly, I've just bought a nice shiny new PC! I got a "Ricochet" from Novatech - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz, 4GB RAM, 500GB Hard Disk, ATI Radeon 4650 1GB graphics, plus a shiny 22" widescreen LCD :) So far I don't think I've made it break a sweat, so if anyone wants to suggest some games to challenge it, mail me!
Cornwall
Just a quick note to say I've added some photographs from Cornwall last weekend to my gallery.
Photographs and stuff
Hi all,
I now have a Twitter account so feel free to say hi!
Here are a bunch of recent photographs I've taken:
Cheers!
France 2009
| Last but by no means least, here are some photographs of taken on my summer holiday to France and Monaco this year. | 
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