Daz Digs (Mint Edition)
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Where Wax Works
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Barbara had to get out of the house today. She's not been well for the last couple of days and was feeling cooped up. It poured with rain all day. We got soaked simply walking to the train station. After a short ride on the train and another on the tube we then stood for about half an hour in the queue for Madame Tussauds while the rain attempted to drown us. Because it was so wet it appears that most of the tourists visited Tussauds today to get inside.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Saturday 26th Jan 2002 06:42:14am.
Gone But Not Forgotten
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I was 16 when I got my first motorbike. Back in 1987 we didn't have to do any test to ride the 50cc bike, my parents bought me the bike to use to get to college on and I got on it and went.
The first trip I made was from my parents house to Maidstone where my grandparents lived, the journey is about 25 miles each way. I had no idea how to use the clutch and stalled the bike at every set of lights. Since the bike didn't have an electric start I spent a lot of time kick starting it. I stayed tight into the curb and my father followed me in his van as a support vehicle.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Saturday 12th Jan 2002 10:34:30am.
End Of 2001
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My parents bought me heated handle grips for the scooter, it took dad and I a couple of attempts to get them wired correctly. The instructions said to wire directly to the battery but we wanted the grips to shut off with the ignition key. Though the cable from the ignition was suffice for a power we had to wire the return direct to the battery rather than to the chassis.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Tuesday 1st Jan 2002 06:34:21am.
Oh Deer
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While I'm still learning to ride I'm not allowed to take the scooter on the motorway, this means I have to take the more scenic route to and from work. This is no understatement, riding through Epping Forest is very scenic.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Thursday 6th Dec 2001 01:34:50pm.
Dream Bike
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Before I could ride my motorbike on the road I had to complete my CBT (Compulsory Basic Training), this I took on the 21st of November. I had to spend the morning doing slow, control exercises in a school playground followed by a couple of hours out on the road with an instructor in the afternoon.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Thursday 22nd Nov 2001 09:12:10am.
New Suit
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The last time I rode a motorbike of any kind was back in 1987 when I had a 50cc moped to take me to college. At the time I had a full Belstaff waterproof suit, FM crash helmet, Frank Thomas boots and gloves. The helmet always had a problem with the visor misting up, it still fits me but I needed a new one. The new HJC helmet has a facemask that should help with the misting problem.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Saturday 17th Nov 2001 07:46:10pm.
Two Wheels Are Better Than 4
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In the last month road works have started which hinder two of my main routes to and from work. This has instantly added half an hour to my journey and both are set to run well into next year. Several times this week I have spent more time stationary in traffic than I have moving. When it takes two hours to do a twenty-mile journey it's time to look at your options.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Saturday 10th Nov 2001 06:31:00am.
Guy Fawkes Night 2001
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My brother has done a lot of work in his garden this year and was left with a lot of old fence panels, the remains of a shed and the remains of a tree. We made up a fire and kept it burning for much of the evening.
Michael bought a box of fireworks for five pounds and they were worth every penny, not a penny more. The most fun was had from when we realised that the squealing noise coming from the fire was the sound of the snails, which had made their homes on the damp wood, evaporating.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Monday 5th Nov 2001 03:11:53pm.
Pumpkins 2001
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This year Babs decided to join us in carving some pumpkins. She bought a smaller pumpkin than the rest of us but this worked out better when the candle was placed inside. Babs also added some eyebrows to her pumpkin by just removing the skin from the shapes above the eyes. I'm not sure who she was thinking of when we took this picture....
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Wednesday 31st Oct 2001 06:10:20am.
Halloween 2001
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What used to be known as the Dover road followed close to what is now the A2 between Dover and London.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Tuesday 30th Oct 2001 05:47:53am.
Breaking Down
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Last month one of the front wheels on the car started to squeak. While in the store buying replacement disc pads I also bought a new battery for my alarm remote since in recent weeks I'd had to get closer and closer to the car before the button would work.After changing the battery in the remote it stopped working completely.more...
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Wednesday 24th Oct 2001 05:17:00am.
Nothing To See Here
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Would anyone like to buy a 19 inch paperweight?
I've not been having much luck with my computer recently. A couple of months back Outlook stopped working and I thought I'd lost all my mail.
Searching through news groups I eventually found the cure was to rebuild the icon bar.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Tuesday 23rd Oct 2001 08:01:34pm.
Memories
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Recently I've been surfing the Internet by following links that people leave as they sign guest books on web sites. Each time I sign a guest book it tends to prompt the owner to come sign mine. Mark from THEBECKET.CO.UK read an earlier post on my guest book and had the following to say:
Like the Site - what happened with those ants in assembly then? we all want to know the story !!
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Thursday 11th Oct 2001 05:53:39am.
Music On Demand
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Ever since I first sat by the radio with my father's reel to reel tape recorder and a microphone to record 'Top of the pops' I have always loved to have music around me. I used to frequently buy vinyl singles and albums. I was never a great fan of tapes, it didn't take very long for them to stretch and distort no matter how well you looked after them.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Saturday 6th Oct 2001 06:27:51am.
A Trilogy In Five Parts
🌍The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
My journey to and from work each day involves a trip across the river Thames on a ferry. Sometimes this journey takes no more than five minutes but often I'm waiting for anything up to an hour. This time I have set aside for reading. Though I have tried reading books on Sendmail and Lotus Notes I find it very difficult to read technical books without having a machine by my side to practice what I'm learning. The time is therefore used to escape into fictional literature.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Wednesday 12th Sep 2001 06:28:44am.
The World Will Remember
🌍20 years later and we're getting into the territory where 9-11 is being taught as history
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Tuesday 11th Sep 2001 06:16:07am.
Back To School
🌍The idea of this project is to re-create the original Hook Lane School that stood at the bottom of Hook Lane in Welling. The school was built in 1906 and closed down and demolished in 1988. Initially I will only work on the junior school building. Depending on the findings during the research for this project I may then go on to the infant's school also.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Saturday 1st Sep 2001 06:10:58am.
Another Year Of Daz Digs
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Monday 20th Aug 2001 05:28:07am.
Summer Holiday 2001
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This was the first true holiday that we had spent as a family. We stayed at a full board hotel in Palmanova in Majorca. Though the only flights the kids had been on before were when they came over to England they were both well behaved on the plane.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Friday 10th Aug 2001 05:58:34am.
Wedding Anniversary
🌍I would have put some pictures of our day here but, despite having freshly charged batteries in the camera, I forgot to put the memory card in.
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This update was written by Darren Wall
on Monday 2nd Jul 2001 07:15:37am.