Andy & Gail's Wedding in Derby

A big congratulations to Andy & Gail who got married yesterday at Horsely Lodge. with the usual gang present. It was nice to catch up with everyone and then eat some good food, drink some good beer and generally catch up with everyone as it’s been a little while…

The Ceiling Clothes Dryer Experience

Well what better to do on a bank holiday Monday after a working weekend in the office…..yes that’s right I fitted a Pulley Maid Classic Clothes Airer to the upstairs hall ceiling to make use of the dead space up there and be able to dry my clothes…

Phoebe and the birthday cake

It’s Phoebe’s birthday today and thus it was amusing birthday cake time. 🙂 I put an order in last week for my friend Karen to design a birthday cake with a rough idea of having a monkey and jungle on the cake. The result of Karen’s design flair…

The Twelfth Night at The Vyne

So this was a new experience for both Pheebs and I with a visit to The Vyne to watch an open air production of Twelfth Night by The Lord Chamberlain’s Men. The tickets were actually given to us as an engagement present by Phoebe’s sister Sarah so a…

Multiple Oracle instances performance issue

Finally closed a VOS case that’s been open for over a year which was related to high system consumption caused by running multiple Oracle RDBMS’s on a single system. The observation was 80/90% system cpu consumption from mpstat 1 and the following from lockstat profiling: Profiling interrupt:…