Movies

Just a quick one this - I've spent the last few hours messing around getting my media PC to host my crap home movies. Please feel free to view it - its from our first holiday with Jack in the Scottish borders. I have edited it quite a bit and had to drop the frame rate so it is a little jerky. Although just over 14 MB isn't too bad. Things will get better I'm sure. I can hear Hollywood calling !

Neeps and Tatties

Well we got back from a successful week in the Scottish Borders. Jack has fully recovered and seemed to like it up there more than his own home - although I think its because it was a bit cooler up there. Check out the pics for a few snaps.
BTW I've upgraded to the latest version of JAlbum and there seems to be some problem with the photo ordering on this - if anyone uses JAlbum and has sorted this then please let me know !
Time for me to have another moan cos I have been having withdrawal symptoms ...
I rang Toshiba up before I went away about this TV company that were supposed to have fixed my TV (twice and failed to do so). They suggested another TV repair company to me based in Bradford. I thought OK I'll give it a go (bear in mind these companies are all "Authorised Repair Centres" for Toshiba). So this guy rings me up and makes a booking for today (as I told him we were away last week as he originally wanted to pick it up then). Anyway come noon there was no sign so I rang them to confirm they were coming and not only could they not work out where I lived they also started taking down my details all over again. Anyway halfway through this I decided i had had enough and told them I wasn't interested in their business and I would tell toshiba about the shoddy service. To which the woman replied (she already had a surly attitude before I said that) "Fine Sir you do that" and slammed down the phone on me ! So I rang Toshiba (again) and told them of my woes and they now say they will get a repair company in Barnsley (about 50 miles away) to get in touch with me to fix it ! If this goes pear-shaped (which I imagine it will) then I will be writing to their manager. CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY OUR COMPANIES ARE SO USELESS NOWADAYS ?? I mean - is it me ? Is it acceptable to have 3 repair companies trying to fix a TV for the past 3 months ? In the meantime I gave up on them and bought a new LCD tv. But I still am going to get this fixed by Toshiba even if it means they fix it themselves.

Hospital

Jack was in hospital all weekend until tuesday night. He had a temperature and wasn't feeding on Saturday so we took him to the doctors. He wanted the hospital to check him over so we had to stay there. He had loads of tests - blood test, lumbar puncture (fluid extracted from his spine) and was given antibiotics etc. They have to take the worst-case scenario with babies (ie meningitis). So he wasn't allowed out until tuesday evening. It was a bit of a nervous time but we (and more importantly HE) is better now. So all being well we're off to Scotland for a week this weekend on our hols. There is a photo of him in a big Silver Cross pram at the hospital glaring at me for taking aphot of him whilst he is ill.