My rapidly approaching 30th birthday

Oh dear, I am almost 30, scary! On the plus side I am milking it for all it is worth, I have already been to Center Parcs, am off to the Reading Beer Festival in a couple of weeks, and this weekend went home to Bournemouth to spend some time with my family. I got a fantastic golf set, my first one. I can't wait to get out there and swing my new clubs.

Thanks everyone :-)

Centre Parcs

Alas, the long awaited Centre Parcs visit is over. The Newbury lot, Rosspo, Darth Lipmet Chudplug and partners plus myself and Nicky paid for the Exclusive Accomodation this time, with hottub, steam room and sauna facilities. It was marvellous, we had wine and Champagne in the tub. The rapids were excellent as per usual. I won an archery competition, wow, first time I have won anything for ages.

Thanks to everyone for my birthday pressies, so much Belgian Beer it will take me ages to drink it all, and I even got an authentic Pauwel Kwack testtube glass thingy!

We videotaped a cake-off between Joey and Rosspo, both cakes tasted very good. Photos are here!

Amiga Emulation, marvellous

Yep, I could be considered late jumping onto the bandwagon, I just never got round to it, well, finally I set up WinUAE, and started playing some of my favourite old Amiga games. I need to get hold of a load more, but for now I have 'Menace' and 'Arkanoid' working, and they are as playable as ever. Its relatively painless getting WinUAE up and running, but if you want a really simple solution, simply look up 'Amiga Forever' on your search engine of choice.

My little sister is going to love playing Menace again after all these years.