Family Weekend in Oxford

Just spent a really good weekend with Pheeb’s family at the Rose Barn in Oxford which managed to cater for all 12 of us. During the weekend we visited Cogges Manor Farm and had an enjoyable time attempting to avoid getting soaked by the falling rain! We also got…

Zoo Keeping

Pheebs and I have just spent a couple of days in Cambridgeshire staying at Springfield House B&B where we enjoyed a couple of nights in the country. After a nightmare of avoiding the M25 we eventually made it to the B&B which we just dumped our…

Taking the black

This weekend has possibly been the toughest one for a while with 7 1/2 hours of Karate training over 3 days and grading for 1st Dan (which I passed) at the SSKA Summer Camp in Bournemouth. I’ve been to hard warmups before but the ones on Friday morning…

ZFS pool corruption

Last night on my home system (Solaris 11 Express + SRU09) running Virtualbox 4.0.12, I used “VBoxManage modify” to increase the size of my windows7 vdi from 20gb -> 30gb which appeared to work ok (https://trivialproof.blogspot.com/2011/01/resizing-virtualbox-virtual-hard-disk.html). I then ran up gparted…

Further garden developments

So Pheebs and I finally received some of hurdles from Natural Fencing which enabled us to put them up in the back yard. We’re hoping that we get the other 4 fence panels from this company who so far haven’t been the best in the world at providing…