Manchester + Snow

Just finished a clean up in my living room. This was to coincide with gettting my new Ikea desk. Only £30

and it works great in the little corner I have put it. It's an egg shaped Vika Manne. I particularly appreciate the white legs. All that's missing now is THE REST OF THE DECOR to go with it. LOL! That will come later this year, after the next thing which is another round of gardening. This time it's boundaries and levelling the ground. I'll have to ask how far along we are, I'm worried it will never end!

In other news, I went up to Manchester early last week and to my surprise there was settled snow on the ground. See here from the train:

I finished up there early and went walking around the Arndale Centre, and lo! I found the Apple Store. Rather more fabulous than I had imagined, all along the inside are illuminated walls with images of young people living the iLife. So, a very much brighter store than usual.

Nice. Sort of opposite the store was a very nice Waterstones where I bought Josie Dew's new book: Long Cloud Ride, about her jaunt around New Zealand, and then went into HMV to get Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown. A film I've wanted to see for a while, and I watched it on the train back. Fantastic.

Lunar Eclipse

Blurry Pic, but definitely visible from my house.

Worlds Collide

This is Windows 2003 and Meridio 4.4 running on my iMac using Parallels in Coherence mode. Coherence mode makes the windows desktop transparent allowing Windows programs to intermingle on the Mac Desktop as if there is nothing wrong. And it was fast, very fast indeed. Much faster than any real PC I have used recently.