Blog of an Open Mind

Well on Wednesday after returning to the sport after a break of 18 years, I shot my very first and most likely last robin hood at 20 yards using a club bow and arrows! 🙂 It was definitely more luck than judgement and after being informed I could keep the arrows as long as I […]

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OK getting impatient now, UPS are supposed to be making a delivery to me today. Their site tracker says it’s currently on a van somewhere in Edinburgh. What it won’t tell me that “Bob the driver” is currently on an extended lunch break, smoking copious amounts of nicotine and supping tea. So Bob if you […]

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Well I suppose I’d better say hello as I recently found out that my mum reads the blog. This worries me slightly as I can no longer swear, post rude cartoons or do anything else that might offend “she who must be obeyed” so I’d better keep this clean from now on 😉 Noce to […]

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OK this stumped me for a while but if you are trying to install ColdFusion MX7 on Windows 7 Professional and the installer is constantly quitting with the error “javaw.exe has stopped working” then try the following: 1) Extra all the content of the CF MX7 installation to a spare folder on your drive 2) […]

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I bloody wish 😉 Well if this story has any weight we could well be seeing the brit dream team in the McLaren team next year which would be quite frank, wee inducingly exciting… Britain’s top driver joined by, erm, Britain’s new top driver driving Britain’s top team car… Oh God, think I might have […]

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Yep I have taken up a sport. This one doesn’t involve me running around, going underwater or wasting excessive amounts of energy though. I’ve joined Lasswade Archery club up here in Edinburgh to occupy my mind two nights a week and to shoot long pointy sticks at inanimate objects. I last did archery when I […]

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