Hotmail not so hot!

Must be getting near 40. Feel like a grumpy old man today - must be something to do with the very wet weather today and the fact i picked up a cold the past 2 days. Yup - dodgy food to cold in one easy step! Any how i digress. I use hotmail, but over the past two days been getting poor service - can log into mail and read it, but as soon as i want to send a reply i get "Windows Live Hotmail couldn't send your message because the server was busy. Please try again later." How busy does it need to get to this stage? How difficult is it to send email from online mail? When things work there great and you take them for granted but when they fail, its irritating. oh hum!

What a weekend!

Drove 10 hours Friday from Scotland to home after holiday (more on that soon!), then Saturday/Sunday was a friends 40Th birthday party.

The problems started at 7pm. Started to drink beer, the i remember various curries being cooked, snacks etc, more beer.....then just after midnight things started to go wrong!

Most of the neighbours and folks who weren't staying started to leave, which left the hardcore Scottish and Irish contingent.

The problem came when one of the madder Irish folks decided to make cocktails. Ingredients included: Whisky, Rose wine, vodka, blackthorn cider and some orange juice. I was told Sunday that the trick is to "mask" the alcohol so people don't slow down. Well it worked! We partied to 3am! Luckily the hostess forced us to drink 2 pints of water and take paracetamol before crashing. I'm glad as i don't know how i would have felt Sunday morning without it!

We have a couple more parties before it's mine in June 08 - more practice :)

Sunday Morning View

We have had a 40th in the family this weekend. No, not me, that's next year!

We managed to get my sister to look after the kids for the weekend and disappeared Saturday lunchtime to re-appear Sunday tea-time.

What wilds things did we get up to? Afternoon tea on arrival, massage at the spa, more tea, grown up chat about stuff we haven't had a chance to get around to, dinner, wine/whisky without having to nominate a driver, 8 hrs sleep, uninterrupted read of the Sunday papers (with the view above), breakfast delivered to the room, walk, horse riding, afternoon tea and a shopping trip without interruptions. All-in-all pure bliss (for those who have two small kids)

Now back to normality. How do you turn the volume down on the kids?