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How cool is this, I love youtube. Series One will be out in DVD in august

So this weekend Katie and I went down to London to meet up with Chris, Lou, Jon, Amelia and Amelia’s brother Hugh for Amelia’s 30th birthday.  We all stayed in the yha across from St Pancras except for Chris and Lou who tooj their time deciding if they were going to come and ended up staying in some B&B further away.

It was good to see everyone again although at the moment its almost like the summer of Garner’s, we’ve seen my family over the last 2 weekends and we have another 2 big family events to come.  I think that Katie might be getting withdrawal symptoms from not seeing her family

The night was good although to be honest I got a bit carried away and had a few lemonades and then I don’t really remember much I do think at one point I had a Jaeger Bomb as always the photos are up on flickr.

Sunday Katie and pottered around London for a bit heading off to Spittlefields market and trendy Shoreditch for a few minutes I was quite captivated by the market and the whole vibe of the place and considered moving there before I realised that it would cost a fortune.  Oh well there’s always the lottery.

I have a small confession to make I believe that I have a slight tent fetish.  Every so often Katie and I go camping in our tent of love, its great a bit of a bugger to put up but its great.  Its seen us through the sun of clent, the rain at V festival and also the harsh wind of Scarborough.

However yesterday I went and had a of a re style at the barbers and while I was waiting I quickly glanced through Stuff and it had a look to a website called Outdoor World and it had what looked a really good deal on a tent.  So as soon as I got back in front of the PC I pointed firefox at it.  I started getting that feeling which only meant that in seconds I would be reaching for my wallet and buy buy buy.  I decided to do a very safe thing and open C# and start looking at overloading a class.  After I moved my wallet far from my reach I went back and had a look.

There’s the Vango Beta 250 which I like because its got a porch and also it seems as though you get a small ground sheet as well which is handy as well as lots of vents for keeping you cool.   The other is the Khyam Sherpa 2 which has the same porch but it has these really cool roof things just take a look.  They are both only £50 so if we do decided to go somewhere I’m gonna buy one.  Which reminds if I’m gonna do that its time to put the golf clubs, game cube and also a linksys router on ebay…

Well the answer is very and I just need to convince Katie we need one

As I write this I’m with Katie in the club lounge in the Sheraton Skyline at Heathrow as Katie will be leaving me for a few days while as she’s off to Barcelona. So in the in mean time there’s a free bar and I have to do whats gotta been done

John at work got his hands on a laptop from the the One Laptop Per Child program. I must first the thing is well put together but its tiny I mean really tiny and not meant for people with giant chip hands. As its designed for children in mind to took the obligatory 15mins to work out how to get the thing up and running and of course we couldn’t find any instructions on how everything works. However it once we where up and running I really did like the wi-fi map and browsing and net was no problem. I suppose the laptop all comes into play once a network of them is up and running. It did have some rather cool apps in there though some sort of drum app which was fun to play around it and also a python editor for kids! I suppose get them while they are young.

Sorry about the quality  of the pics I took them with my phone