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Yesterday, having finally decided that I needed a laser printer (who doesn't), I finally decided to place my order. Going to PriceRunner (my first stop before buying anything these days - highly recommended, along with KelKoo & Dealtime) to check what the latest prices were, I was happy to find a suitable bundle of technological joy for under £50 - undercutting the likes of Dixons, Currys & PC World by a good £25.
So I zoomed off to the website with the cheapest price and placed my order at 4.40pm. The site said that "if orders were placed by 5pm it would be sent that day". A couple of hours later and I get an e-mail that linked to the CityLink site and my order, where I could happily watch my printer trundle up the country overnight.
Checking on it's progress this morning, I saw that it had arrived in the right city and had been bundled onto a van - ready for delivery today. Funny old thing, I'm 5 words into this blog, when the buzzer goes and there is my shiny new laser printer! A mere 20 hours after I bought it from some unheard of company in London - who are probably on their way to Tijuana now, courtesy of my credit card.
On this sort of note and what really made me laugh the other week. One or two days after I got back from my German trip, I had made myself one of those magnificent breakfasts that can only really be produced in one's own kitchen. Essentially bacon & eggs on bread (sorry folks, I am a canivore, but, generally, only piggies are in the firing line), it actually entailed mushrooms, onions, spring onions, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, tomato, iceburg lettuce, smoked bacon & Pastel Coloured Free Range Eggs from Clarence Court ("supporting rare breeds" says the box) on wholemeal seed & nut bread, all washed down with Tropicana Sanguinello (red oranges). Mmmm, I feel quite hungry now!
It's the type of breakfast that makes you leap out of bed for and then need to return to for an hour, in order to snooze it off.
Anyway, while eating this orgy of breakfast delights, I ended up reading the carton that the free range eggs came from. On the inside, apart from telling me what a wonderful life these hens were having (good), was a link to their website.
Sitting at the computer, as I was, I zoomed off to Clarence Court and, then, immediately clicked on the 'hen-cam'. Low & behold there I sat, munching on my brekky, watching 'my' ecstatic little hens running all over the show in a wonderful outdoor farm (an Alton Towers of the Hen world I thought), like the mad little fowls they are...
Gotta luv the 21st century (well the bits where we're not trying to blow ourselves to smithereens). The Hen-Cam is here.
Although when i just went to it, it wasn't working.
Yes - I did phone them up and told them to expect 1000's of hits, or two at least, and enquired when it'll be back online. They were unaware of the glitch and are looking into it as we speak (got their best rooster on it, I suspect). I did also tell them that "I thought they were doing a great job" and, after hanging up, wondered if this was another early sign of impending senility (phoning up a farm, asking when the hen-cam will be back online).
This all reminds me of a quip I heard once. On the subject of dolphins getting caught in tuna nets (which is bad, naturally), someone said "Yeah, well they're all up in arms for the dolphins, but you don't hear anyone banging on about the tuna's predicament do you!". Good point...
Oh, goodie, I just checked and the hen-cam is back on! Although, it's different to last time when I could see a grassy field with trees, a river and swings (ok, there were no swings). Now it's kinda up close & personal and the picture is somewhat intermittent (last time it was better than Nasa's)!
Yesterday, having finally decided that I needed a laser printer (who doesn't), I finally decided to place my order. Going to PriceRunner (my first stop before buying anything these days - highly recommended, along with KelKoo & Dealtime) to check what the latest prices were, I was happy to find a suitable bundle of technological joy for under £50 - undercutting the likes of Dixons, Currys & PC World by a good £25.
So I zoomed off to the website with the cheapest price and placed my order at 4.40pm. The site said that "if orders were placed by 5pm it would be sent that day". A couple of hours later and I get an e-mail that linked to the CityLink site and my order, where I could happily watch my printer trundle up the country overnight.
Checking on it's progress this morning, I saw that it had arrived in the right city and had been bundled onto a van - ready for delivery today. Funny old thing, I'm 5 words into this blog, when the buzzer goes and there is my shiny new laser printer! A mere 20 hours after I bought it from some unheard of company in London - who are probably on their way to Tijuana now, courtesy of my credit card.
On this sort of note and what really made me laugh the other week. One or two days after I got back from my German trip, I had made myself one of those magnificent breakfasts that can only really be produced in one's own kitchen. Essentially bacon & eggs on bread (sorry folks, I am a canivore, but, generally, only piggies are in the firing line), it actually entailed mushrooms, onions, spring onions, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, tomato, iceburg lettuce, smoked bacon & Pastel Coloured Free Range Eggs from Clarence Court ("supporting rare breeds" says the box) on wholemeal seed & nut bread, all washed down with Tropicana Sanguinello (red oranges). Mmmm, I feel quite hungry now!
It's the type of breakfast that makes you leap out of bed for and then need to return to for an hour, in order to snooze it off.
Anyway, while eating this orgy of breakfast delights, I ended up reading the carton that the free range eggs came from. On the inside, apart from telling me what a wonderful life these hens were having (good), was a link to their website.
Sitting at the computer, as I was, I zoomed off to Clarence Court and, then, immediately clicked on the 'hen-cam'. Low & behold there I sat, munching on my brekky, watching 'my' ecstatic little hens running all over the show in a wonderful outdoor farm (an Alton Towers of the Hen world I thought), like the mad little fowls they are...
Gotta luv the 21st century (well the bits where we're not trying to blow ourselves to smithereens). The Hen-Cam is here.
Although when i just went to it, it wasn't working.
Yes - I did phone them up and told them to expect 1000's of hits, or two at least, and enquired when it'll be back online. They were unaware of the glitch and are looking into it as we speak (got their best rooster on it, I suspect). I did also tell them that "I thought they were doing a great job" and, after hanging up, wondered if this was another early sign of impending senility (phoning up a farm, asking when the hen-cam will be back online).
This all reminds me of a quip I heard once. On the subject of dolphins getting caught in tuna nets (which is bad, naturally), someone said "Yeah, well they're all up in arms for the dolphins, but you don't hear anyone banging on about the tuna's predicament do you!". Good point...
Oh, goodie, I just checked and the hen-cam is back on! Although, it's different to last time when I could see a grassy field with trees, a river and swings (ok, there were no swings). Now it's kinda up close & personal and the picture is somewhat intermittent (last time it was better than Nasa's)!
posted by Captain Fargon at 12:36 pm
2 Comments:
Wow! A Laserprinter! *jealous* ;-)
Yes, I must *embarrassingly* admit that I'm quite chuffed about it. It's amazing what you can buy with £50 these days - although, the replacement cartridge costs £49...
Some people have a house, car or hamster... I've got a laser printer.
I really must get out more!
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