There was a small FEATURE in the plugin that didnt allow it to work when php is hosted on IIS but have worked with the author and have now solved that which is great. Actually great support from them and it works a treat.
So I now have ebay items on the sidebar and you can post directly into the text like this… Check out the tattoo flash from my impending brother in law !!! yahoooo. OK OK I am getting a bit wild for a Monday morning I know any way check this out.
Not sure on the ebay header bit but I guess thats ebay doing that so probably nothing we can do about it.
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Popped out to the states last weekend for Paula and Ben Herz’s wedding and what a lovely event it was. They looked so happy. While I was out there though visited Neal’s BBQ in Thomson, Georgia. Now the reason that we took ourselves out there was because it had recently been featured on Jamies American Road Trip. It was the recent series from Jamie Oliver and he visited Neal’s on the show.
It was the best BBQ that I had ever tasted. And Olivia our little girl went straight in and started talking to a couple of guys at a table which one of them turned out to be the owner. They were so hospitable and the prices are so reasonable – all children 8 and under eat for free and the main prices are about 7 dollars per plate.
I had to try a bit of everything, so had the chicken, pork, ribs, beans, green beans, potato salad and a glass of tea. Oh and the lovely hash which was one of the things that Jamie helped make while he was there.
It was delicious and will definitely go back. Completely recommend it and think the locals love it too as it was really really busy.
Thanks guys for your hospitality it was great talking to y’all. Cant wait to come back and try your fish.
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The ribs eventually arrived which took some time after ordering but hey they were busy so I allowed them this. The food was dumped and we weren’t even given cutlery or napkins to start with. After asking these were provided for, how could they forget cutlery !!!
The ribs didnt look marinaded in anything except some generic BBQ sauce which looked like it had been on for days. The ribs were tough and not really that pleasant at all. They didnt taste of the marinade that I had chosen. Was very disappointed indeed. At the end of the meal I couldnt find any wipes to clean my hands which you would expect to be available being a rib restaurant.
On getting back to England was so disappointed with the restaurant decided I was going to let the owners of the chain know of my disappointment with the Augusta branch. So fired up the Sticky Fingers website and filled in a page detailing my experience, pressed the button. Then got emails back from their site saying that it couldn’t find the host stickyfingers.com from its mail server – agghghghghgh.
This is obviously a restaurant chain in decline, wouldn’t recommend it at all. Although I guess a lot of people are happy with second rate ribs as it did have its busy periods.
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Flags a flying next to us on the beach
Originally uploaded by paulfarrow
Spent the last two weeks with Buff, the kids and her family down at Edisto Beach. Was very relaxing, Edisto beach is down on Edisto Island in South Carolina in the USA.
It is a very non commercialised beach with just one supermarket (The Piggly Wiggly) on it and a handful of gift shops, restuarants and bars.
Weather was fab the whole two weeks, top 30’s. Saw heaps of wild life, from a shark, dolphins, pelicans, dear and a raccoon.
We stayed in a beach house called “Sea Cloud” which was very nice except for annoying beeping on the oven that the owner didn’t get fixed. Even though we repeatedly told him about it.
It took us about 2.5 hours to get to Edisto from Augusta.
The kids had a blast as its the sort of beach that you can just let them do their own thing. Apart from a couple of jelly fish stings the kids had a great time. Including the big kid Farrow, it was excellent. Thanks go to the guy with the chewing tobacco who generously gave it up to rub into the places that had been stung to help the kids.
I did quite a lot of paddling in the sea, built some sandcastles with the children which was nice. It was quite windy at times which made it ideal for flying kites which we did. We had a butterfly and a spiderman kite flying during the 2 weeks away.
Buff, I and the kids did a little bit of cycling around the island and there are well designed cycle lanes so that you can cycle without being involved with the traffic. Although saying “traffic” there was none, any way.
Buff’s dad Terry had taken their golf kart down there to get around and this seemed to be the preferred way to get around Edisto Beach as there are more golf karts than regular cars driving around Edisto.
I cooked a little and the range of fresh seafood available is excellent. This helped, as I produced some excellent fish cakes (if I dont say so myself) which the kids wolfed down, even after saying “fish is gross”.
Buff and I did sneak off to a drinking hole (without the kiddos) not far from the beach house called “Whaleys”. We sampled the food their with which I had a Sarah BLT and Buff had the rock oysters, was excellent and the rather pleasant eccentric older chap behind the bar served us Mango Madras’s. We did get a little rapped by our party as they thought something had happened to us as we were gone 2.5 hours just for a trip to the Piggly Wiggly supermarket.
All in all it was an excellent holiday / vacation and there was just one major problem which was that I had to come back, to England.
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Here are a few photos from the event….
As Buff would say YAY !!!
And a wierd fact of the night was: Jeni’s father (blood) has several tattoos on him by Eddie Peace – Noels (Jeni’s sister-in-laws husband) grandfather, blogged about him in previous posts.
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] but this weekend was my first experience of terminal 5 at Heathrow. Since meeting my girlfriend in the USA I have tried to see her on a regular basis and all the British Airways flights have been out of Gatwick but since April the 1st (I believe) most of the British Airways flights have moved to Terminal 5, Heathrow. So this weekend just gone I decided to go see Buff for the weekend !!!
Also it was a first for me because I used the long stay carpark as well, normally get dropped off. It was actually quite good. And my first impressions was that it was big and new and just exactly what you would expect from a big international airport for London. I must say it makes the terminal building at Gatwick look very tired.
Once inside the terminal building, the concourse was spacious and airy. On my british airways documentation it said that if you had no bags you needed to go to the security check desk. This wasnt very well signposted and after asking a couple of people I was directed to the correct desk.
Then to go through security. The initial person checking the documentation didnt even bother to look at it, just waived me through as I had an english passport in my hand which I thought in this day and age was a bit dangerous. Once round the security boards it was a completely different story it was busy and slow. Took a little while to get through the scanners.
Once through the scanners there is an information board right there which everyone hoards around as its the first one that you get when past security. Actually the whole scanner / security bit is quite cramped and squashed compared to the front desks its like they started planning the terminal without taking into account the whole space and it wsa like they ran out of room so the security bit is squashed into the last space left.
My exit was from a ‘B’ get so I had to get the underground train to the other building which was fine. There is quite a lot of walking and I do think that BAA could have done more to provide moving walkways etc.
The actual gate was fine plenty of space although the seats are not too comfortable. There was a large screen tv although I would have liked less spent on the tv and more on the seating. Then when you are through the gate there was still quite a bit of walking to get to the plane.
All in all though looks nice and has that feel of an international airport.
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