Garden

This weekend we started to attack the garden.  There are lots of things we want to do to the garden.  The only picture I took of the garden when we bought the place last May.

From this you can get the rough idea that the garden has never been maintained.  First thing we needed to do was establish a fence at the bottom of the garden as neighbours were using this as a shortcut between streets.  To do this the trees down the back of the garden would have to be cut back to allow a fence to go up.

In I step with a saw.... 

Now the garden looks even worse although I am assured that the trees will grow back.  We plan to leave one and place a garden shed where the other is.  If you look closely enough you may notice a door at the bottom of the garden.  There is indeed a fence down there which is quite sturdy but a bit of the fence has been cut away.  Using an old door taken out of our house (and left in the garden for a few months) we blocked this gap to try and stop this being used as a shortcut.

Next course of action which will most likely be next weekend is to try and remove the tree at the bottom right of the picture.  Really wish I bought a chain saw!

Anyone looking for some spare firewood?

Playstaion 3

Well according to Sony next generation gaming has now arrived with the launch of the Playstaion 3 across Europe.

I have no interest in paying such silly money for a games console £425 is crazy and you still need to buy a game and a HDMI or component cable. Making the purchase even more costly, they could have at least stuck a HD cable in the box, after all its just not a games console but a Blueray player.

I was happy to fork out 180 for a Wii (which I still don't have due to preorder being canceled) and will eventually pick up a 360.  No doubt in a few months the price of this unit will plummet due to terrible sales.

With the reports of people queuing at stores and plenty of ps3 stock available I decided to have a quick look on eBay.

670 PS3 available.  Nice!  The folk that bought the ps3 to try make a quick profit are onto plumbs.  A lot of the buyers have covered their bases with buy it now's and reserves.  I can see a lot of these heading back to the stores when the reserves are not met.

I will keep my eye open for a cheeky no reserve ps3 as there may be a bargain in it!

Hollywood Deja Vu

Filmjunk have an article on Hollywood studios releasing movies of the same similarity within the same year.  There's a few good examples my favourite is Pixar and Dreamworks.

Toasta Bags

Lunch for me is normally a dull affair, either made up sandwiches or a trip to the bakers.  On a Friday I normally frequent the chip shop.  Well today I have just used a Toasta bag from JML.

I bring my usual cheese sandwich into work to eat at lunch time, but decided to use this Toasta bag to turn it into a toastie.  These things are superb and mess free.

Basically its a bag which you can fire into your toaster and cook loads of things, your toaster will need to be able to fit 2 slices of bread in one side for you to use this.  According to the packaging you can cook chicken, fish, burgers and eggs from this.  Think I will just stick with my toasties!

Taking about 3 min's to cook my toastie causing no mess at all.  Fantastic, quick easy snacks for lunch!

 

You can get these bags here

Crisps

Crisps are my Achilles heel, I tend to eat too many of them.  With salt and vinegar being my favorite.  I really cant go these new sensations that walkers brought out.

Recently we bought a 36 pack box of walkers.  I have managed to demolish the box within a week.  Once I start eating them I cant stop....

Glasgow Inner Ring Road

Stumbled across a site called pathetic motorways today, firstly my attention was pointed to the Renfrew by pass.  As I was brought up in this area I decided to have a read.

In more digging I came across the Glasgow Inner Ring Road.  I find this quite interesting as there has been many a times I have wondered what the off and on ramps sitting doing nothing on the M8 were for.  Turns out there was meant to be a motorway going round the city.

Now there would have been no need to cross the Kingston bridge to get to the other side of Glasgow, or even to the north or south of the UK.  The M74 is now meant to complete this loop of the city.  Joining on just south of the Kingston bridge.  This was touted as a 2008 completion, the fact they haven't even started means 2018 is more likely, or never.

Die Hard 4

New poster surfaced for this movie.

Trailer can be found here