Archive from August, 2010

Hat tip to Nintendo

31 Aug 2010: We’re quick to criticise companies who provide awful customer service, so we should draw attention to those who do something brilliant too. A couple of weeks back my son’s Nintendo Wii, which was about two years old, stopped working. The power light was on, but nobody was at home. I plugged the unit into a neighbour’s TV to check the connections weren’t at fault (they weren’t), and – not expecting much joy – typed “Nintendo Wii repair” into Google. I was surprised to find an official Nintendo site as the first result, so I clicked through to The Nintendo Service Centre for the UK. It still seems too good to be true. They provided a freepost label to return the [...]

Photo highlights of our Canadian holiday

20 Aug 2010: Alex sitting on the glass floor of the Calgary Tower observation deck Taking the gondola ride up Sulphur Mountain in Banff Looking up at the Athabasca Glacier coming down from the Columbia Icefields Canoeing on Ice-blue Lake Louise Front section of the Rocky Mountaineer train Inside the double-deck section of the train Helicopter ride over the Rockies Eagle unimpressed by our presence Beluga whale in Vancouver Aquarium Tame eagle in birds of prey centre Giant Douglas Fir on Vancouver Island Victoria harbour at night

Ten Things I Liked About The Folk Festival This Year

2 Aug 2010: Ah, another year, another Cambridge Folk Festival. By our best estimates, our 18th year running, and the 13th of living directly opposite the venue, which is nice. Anyway, here are the 10 things I really enjoyed about this year’s festival. I may have missed things I might have enjoyed even more; there’s always far too much going on. But I shall never know. 10. Having my 9-year-old son enjoy some of the music for the first time We’ve been taking him every year since he was a 5-month-old, and he’s (usually) enjoyed the event as a spectacle and for the excitement. But this year was the first time Alex really sat and listened to some of the music and enjoyed [...]

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