Rum & Dal

The waiting is over.  Dal is now the proud owner of Guitar Hero World Tour.  What have I let myself in for?

It’s been18 months now since Dal has been strumming on her guitar playing GH2 & GH3.  Since then Rock Band has come and gone, Rock Band was never released in Australia but then it was always going to be second best compared to the original Guitar Hero brand.

Costing $278 (£120) yeah believe it or not is actually cheaper here than the UK.  Its not a bad investment.  The package contains the game, a shiny new wireless guitar with more features than the original, microphone (all we need is a wanna be Bon Jovi) and an electronic drum kit.

This game is selling like hot cakes, I phoned around 12 different vendors this afternoon, they were all out of stock and didn’t know when the new stock would be in.  Perserverance paid off and I found GH World Tour at my local BigW.  We had to get this ready for chrismas holidays so we can play in our cinema room and pump some tunes through our new system.  Forget summer concerts at Hyde Park, not when you got the Nahals at Craigieburn.  Enjoy Dal, the smile on her face said it all.  Looks like i’ll be doing the cooking over the next few weeks

So we’ve been in Melbourne for 16 months and are yet to have ourselves decent fish n chips.
The quest started a week after we landed here, many chippies were sampled but always failed scoring 1/5. Main reason for the rejection was the batter quality and the use of frozen chips with lemon as apposed to salt and finger. Criminal offence.

Us Brits have a set criteria when we’re abroad, alcohol, tea, fish n chips and someone who appreciates the British sense of humour.

Our dear friends Kate and Gerald, who are born again Brits from East London were very exited when telling us about there experience at a fish n chip shop that they came across in Brighton. (Melbourne also has a Brighton not quite as forward and extravagant, if you know what I mean

So to set the scene… it was a beautiful sunny day, Dal and I walked down to the station to meet Kate and G. We were early so we ducked into the near by pub (Young and Jackson) for a quick pint, as you do and were soon in the mood for a greasy fish n chip, lovely jubbly.

Took the train down to Brighton, if it wasn’t a Sunday Dal and I would have taken our hip flasks, oh well next time. Once in Brighton Kate took us to the chippy via the scenic route, Beautiful houses, lovely lush gardens, automatic gates, definitely dream homes for us.

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Got there eventually.

Well it’s been over a year so we thought we would update the blog theme, something different for the eye.  However we had problems installing and uploading the new wordpress software.  At one point the website stopped working and fell apart, those of you who visit regulary would know this.

We used firefox FTP to upload wordpress rather than the FTP software that came with Windows Vista.  I would recommend not to use the windows FTP as it just doesn’t have the bells and whistles and is a lot slower causing timeout issues.

Now we have wordpress working we are experimenting with various themes.  We have chosen Abstract Green Waves though we just need to tweak it.  Dal and I don’t quite have the know how but were learning slowly.

Bye for now, lets see what else we can tweak

8 years today and still going strong.  Having fun in Australia, we went out for a meal after soccer with our mate Luke.  Had a few drinks as usual and got home at a reasonable hour! We’ll celebrate more on the weekend and will let you know how it goes, but I am sure you all know the drill by now

Hi everyone.

If your looking for the activation code for your ford stereo then you’ve come to the right place.  You will need the code for your stereo if  you are reinstalling it or if you had a flat battery.

Ford service centres are more than happy to help, oh! and they will charge you for your code.

I wasn’t about to do that, so I searched the net but to no avail.  Finally I came across a little program that calculates your stereo code once you have popped in your radio serial number.  This program worked for me, I hope it works for you guys too.

I only have the software for A, L, C and M series stereos and I have only used the M series software and instructions .

PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE SOFTWARE AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS TO FIND YOUR CODE.  ENJOY

A huge congratulations to Mick and Dee on the birth of a beautiful baby boy on the 2nd March, which for those of you have forgotten was Mothering Sunday, which makes him that little bit more special.  I tried to calculate the probability of having a baby born on Mothering Sunday and got as far there is one in seven chance of it being born on a Sunday and one in twelve of it being born in March..  Pally you are always quick of the mark with these ones… help me out.

Amrit Singh Rai was born at 00:25 hours and weighed a super 8lb 2oz.  Both mother and baby are doing great and we hope to see more pictures of the happy family soon.  Ladoo have already been passed around in Manawali, India to celebrate and I do believe the Rai’s has a Triple S (Super Saturday Session) this week.  Let us know how that went, sorry we weren’t there.

Well done guys, enjoy the late nights and dirty nappies that your little bundle of joy will be giving you.  Will this little guy be a doctor, lawyer or engineer?