Mark Hendy

Evelyn under sail

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:54:18 +0000

A few weeks back on a brilliant sunny weekend I took my boat out. We left our berth in Southampton bright and early on the Saturday morning and after swinging the compass to calibrate a new instrument I’d brought off ebay and fitted the night before we pottered up Southampton Water to the Solent. Just after entering the Solent a boat branded boatphotos.com motored alongside and the photographer on board took a couple of shots. I noted the name and we continued on. At around high tide we made our way into Wotton Creek which is not accessible at low tide and after a short pootle hooked onto a mooring bouy and cracked open a bottle of beer and poped the kettle on to make up some bombay bad boy pot noodles. About an hour later we slipped the bouy and made for Portsmouth. The evening meal was at a fab place I’ve used a few times called the Great wall of China. It’s a £15 quid a head eat all you can place. After eating all we could we wandered back to the boat for the next challenge….drink all you can! It’s a hard life but you know……

On the Sunday morning We left Portsmouth and played in the Solent for a few hours before making to Cowes for lunch. Then we sailed back to Southampton to put her back on her berth until next time.

When I got home I googled the boat photographers web site and there was the photo above. I paid the man his dues and three of four days later I got a couple of prints through the post which I then took to the framers in the village. The picture above is the finished article. All I’ve got to do now is negotiate with Mrs H as to which wall she’ll hang on. (The Photo, not Mrs H !)

Blog posting from an iphone

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:23:18 +0000

Anyone who knows me knows I’m basically a geek who loves to play with any new technology. Well last week I replaced my blackberry with an iPhone 3G and quickly learned that wordpress offer a free application to blog direct from the iphone. If you’re Reading this it works!

Evernote

admin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:37:55 +0000

I’ve been watching evernote for sometime now and indeed have an evernote account which I’ve had since beta but I’ve not really gotten into using it in any kind of way that I’m going to have to rely on it… but I’m quietly becoming more and more impressed with the technology and its uses and I can see this being a great tool once I gain confidence in its ‘here to stay’ nature. With camera enabled mobile phones which we nearly all carry just about everywhere one can simply take a picture of anything for future reference and simply email to ones evernote account for future reference. Thats pretty cool.

FTSE at sub 4000

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:27:24 +0000

It had to happen sooner or later. I’m just amazed its taken so long for the markets to realise what a folly the over bloated valuations have been for the last few years. I honestly won’t be surprised to see the FTSE 10 below 3000 this side of Christmas

No1 Rockin’ with the band

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:24:24 +0000

For the second year running No1 has played the NEC in the national rock & pop festival. This country has some good kids in it which is sometimes all to easy to lose sight of.

My mac in action

admin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:17:17 +0000

Yeah baby!!!

iMac

admin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:54:24 +0000

My Mac’s arrived….yeah baby!

I covet…..

admin — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:04:52 +0000

Oh man….I’ve just got to have one!

Gym pass

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:15:24 +0000

My Gym wrote to me today congratulating me on being one of their most active users. They sent me a free guest pass which is now available to the first person to ask for it. The gym is Virgin Active in Solihull, but Virgin allow members and so presumably guests to use any of their gyms throughout the country. email me if you want it. First come first served.

Politics

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:02:52 +0000

I joined the Libertarian party a few weeks ago, they being the only party with an albeit evolving manifesto that I can approve of. Today I got my welcome pack from the party which included a couple of business cards which on the back contains a synopsis of what they/we stand for. I’ll repeat it here:

“Libertarians believe in individual liberty, personal responsibility, and freedom from government - on all issues at all times. We don’t say government is too big in one area, but then in another area push for a law to force people to do what we want. We believe in individual liberty, personal responsibility, and freedom from government - on all issues at all times.”

Bravo I say. What do you say?