Bank Holiday Weekend

Busy Saturday, some quick shopping in the morning meant passing PC World and on a whim I poked my head in. They had three LCD televisions set up in the entrance, I was amused to note that the one with the least judder, sharpening and best colours turned out to be the cheapest of the three. Looked at their rears and yes plugged in with component cables. Wandering further in I had a play with Ratchet and Clank on the PS3 via a television that amazingly was connected via an HDMI cable. Although R&C only goes as high as 720p when initialising the PS3 seemed to think the TV was a 1080p; as the box in question was only £500 this seemed odd.

Heading to the back to investigate further and once again the FullHD and HDReady televisions are being fed via a combination of component and composite cables; one TV kept losing the signal and some of the more expensive ones looked worse then the cheaper ones due to poor configuration.

Likewise football is not a good programme to display if you're a retailer with the fast movement of the ball showing up any form of jitter; although as mentioned the connections really don't help here.

Busy Saturday afternoon, lazy Sunday morning as it was a bit of a wash-out, busy Sunday afternoon.

The Bratii came over on Monday and we went down the river and the amusement park. Okay people it's not a difficult concept, but if you want people to be able to read any signs you put up then placing them above knee level would be a good start. The queue for the ticket booth got jammed up as people tried to enter through the exit, because they couldn't see the entrance sign, and I couldn't find the one open entrance (out of four) to one ride because likewise the sign was obscured by people.

Major was unimpressed by the vertical round-and-round, he's been on too many. Minor and I had fun on the dodgems and in this case there are clearly visible signs telling you to travel in only one direction and that head-on collisions are not allowed. Didn't stop some people and the attendant, though insistent that Minor wasn't allowed to even touch the wheel when we got in, did nothing to stop the continual flouters of this rule. Minor being small got a bit shaken about because of this and didn't enjoy it as much as he might.

Major and I went on to the horizontal round-and-round, which was fun even if I did get squashed
as Major was forced against me. Some small form of divider between the seats might be nice, although I'll remember this ride for future female company.

Minor went on the teacups of which we exploited a loophole in the sign "Parents do not spin the cups" with neither I nor Major being parents :-)

Major insisted he have a go on the slide, Minor deferred and was perhaps wise to do so as it ran very slowly with Major barely reaching the end mat and looking very bored.

Over to the green Crazy Golf, where Major once again showed up his lack of dexterity and patience by being beaten by his brother 64 to 60. The gap would have been even wider if Minor had at times just tapped the ball into the hole rather then repeatedly nudged it (I counted each hit) and so despite this smaller gap Major went into a huff and we decided it was time to head back.