Last week daddy decided to trail NetFlix in the household – don’t think it will be quite as easy to remove it from the household as it was to install….. 🙂

The kids LOVE it and despite needing to change the logon name Simon to Daddy (apparently Olly finds daddy’s real name hilarious – pronounced Si  mon apparently – 40 years and it seems that Simon has actually been pronouncing his name incorrectly… 🙁 ) they are beginning to use it instead of YouTube – that being said, they had YouTube removed from their iPads since they were beginning to watch inappropriate things again 🙁  Elliot has renewed his love for the Power Rangers (Samurai of course) and Olly just watches all of the animated stuff over and over…

Vicky has also been watching a few of the TV shows that are available on it. In fact, we found the first series of “Death in Paradise”, a BBC show that we picked up from the beginning of the second series, and so this last few nights we have been catching up on it.

For £6.99 a month, so far it seesm to be a total winner and works really nicely on the TV’s with the Google ChromeCast installed into them, and like the XBMC solution, we can pause the show on one TV and resume it straight away on another – AWESOME.

Obv question, why did we not go for it earlier…..

Simon collected the bikes from the Bike Medic (Richard) in Horbury this afternoon. Total cost was £100 including two new gear cables and four new brake pads on Barbara – pretty good considering they look and feel fantastic 🙂

Simon can’t wait to get out and test ride 🙂 not a big wait as we are going to Sherwood Pines next weekend 🙂

So, we have had Emily in our lives for just over 18 months and thus far she has not made any requests to be checked over at the dealership – today is that day.

It seems she needs a standard oil service along with a brake fluid service plus the couple of things we have noted – squeaking from the steering column (which according to the service lady this morning is a common fault and relatively easily rectified) and a pump in the engine bay that makes an undesirable noise.

Hopefully, she will return in better working order (not that there is anything wrong in fairness) and will be ready for the next 18 months of valued service to us 🙂

Next up is Barbara and Julie who are heading in for their first real service down at the Mike Medic in Horbury on Tuesday.