Nick Gibbins

Children and the Melton Mowbray

I’ve now phoned Trading Standards at the City of London, and they can find no record of a condition on the license for the Melton Mowbray that would prohibit children. This would seem to contradict the duty manager’s assertion that no children were allowed as a condition of their license. They also seemed interested that the Melton Mowbray were unable to show me the license copy or summary that they’re required to have prominently displayed. The next step will be to phone Fuller’s head office and ask them to explain themselves.

A Grand-ish Day Out

Off up to town with and the yesterday to see the Holbein exhibition at Tate Britain before it finishes, but not our most successful day out. Slept poorly the night before, and had a headache for most of the day that left me feeling grouchy and tearful by turns. Finally got out of the house after noon, thanks to a combination of arguments about pannetone (don’t ask) and last minute feeds. Got to the Tate at 3pm, only to find that they were selling tickets for entrance at 5pm by that point, so decided to book online and come back… Read More »A Grand-ish Day Out

Tonight’s Tun

Looks like I’ll be dropping into the Melton Mowbray around 6-6.30pm this evening, probably with the and in tow (seems like a good time to introduce the offspring to fandom).

SFnal devices for child-rearing

As suggested by or possibly Hugo WINOLJ at our open house: stillsuits for infants. It’s not that you necessarily want or need to recycle the material that exudes from every orifice, but that having a single tap for drainage would be very useful. Also, forget Zero Point Energy as an SFnal power source. We really need to be harnessing all that waah-ing and all those flailing limbs.

At home with the Garks tomorrow

Quick reminder – we’re having our at home from noon tomorrow (as mentioned earlier). If you’re planning on coming and haven’t let us know, or think you need directions, please leave a comment…

RIP Gerald Ford

Reported on the BBC this morning. No cause of death given as yet. By far the best US President never to have been elected, and one that could teach the current incumbent a few things.

Turkmenbashi is no more

According to the BBC, but no doubt his livejournal will continue to dispense his wisdom (and views on Partick Thistle) from beyond the grave…

At home with the Garks

For those that are looking for an excuse to escape from their families between Christmas and the New Year, we’re offering a retreat from family politics. We’re having an open house on Friday 29th December 2006, from noon onwards (our address is in this friends-locked post). Any or all of the following may be involved: Eating Drinking Making merry Playing silly board games Talking nonsense Adulation of the Anyone interested?

10 essential Firefox 2 extensions

Mainly for my own records, but I’d be interested to see what other Firefox users consider to be their must-have extensions. Adblock Plus Ad killer – must-have. All-in-One Sidebar Opera-style sidebar control for access to sidebar panels. Firebug Excellent set of Web debugging utilities, integrating a javascript console, markup validation, document inspection and others. Fission Safari-style progress bar in address bar. Greasemonkey Manager and environment for client-side scripts. Usefl for fixing web annoyances or shoehorning extra functionality into third-party websites. Live HTTP Headers View HTTP headers of a page while loading. Essential for debugging protocol-level problems. Scrapbook Utility for saving… Read More »10 essential Firefox 2 extensions