Another Year Older

Well I'm now 45 - I know, I don't look it really do I... but there you go and it's been a whole week since my Birthday. If there is a good way to celebrate getting older then I guess we achieved it last week though. The weekend of the Black Country experience finally arrived which comprised two days sampling the culture and hospitality (read Beer) of my home town. The Black Country Living Museun was particularly good and not too crowded - no photos though as the batteries in my compact camera went flat!

"Drinking in the culture" was not all that we did though with visits to the Robin Hood - Bathams, The Crooked House - Banks's and the Vine - Bathams. Carol and I stayed on a while on Sunday after our friends left as it was my Birthday and it was present opening time.

Things I knew about but were still very welcome were a 60 GB Video Ipod, Sennheiser Headphones and some Grado Headphones - very nice!! but the present that took me completely by suprise was tickets to see Evita in the West End on the 5th August. This latest production stars Elena Roger who is actually Argentinian and I have seen here perform the signature song on Parkinson a few months ago and WoW!!! - so looking forward to that.

Still enjoying the new telly and I am extremeley pleased with the quality of the SD picture, it's now fed through the AV Amp that I have on component cables into the back of the set. I will go for HD eventually but at present the quality is certainly good enough and just as good as my old CRT - but bigger.

Sailing is being a bit of a problem for two reasons - firstly hiring the boat is getting difficult as Durleigh Sailing Club has a lot people keen to use it and also my sailing partner Elaine has just had an operation so she will be out of action for a while. Still onward and upward.