Another odd review this, but (unlike my Silverton review the other day) not because of the experience I had. In this case, it’s more because this hotel is in the town I live in, and there’s probably not many people that have stayed in a hotel in their own town.
This is going to be a bit of a weird review, primarily because I’ve been to The Silverton many times before and although the quality of their food has gone downhill in recent times (but don’t get me wrong – it’s still good stuff) I’ve never felt compelled to write a review of the place until now, and this isn’t going to be a glowing report.
Those who know me will know that I’m a bit of a cinephile. I love my movies. There’s not much I’d rather do of a Friday/Saturday evening than chill out with a takeaway on the sofa and watch a movie or two.
Consequently, over the years I’ve amassed quite a big collection of DVDs. About 550, to give you a rough guess.
Following on from my previous post, where I showcased a bit of aerial footage that I took of the floods in Frankwell on Boxing Day last year, I went out with my new quadcopter setup* in early February as we continued to have ridiculous levels of rainfall, and Frankwell became even more of a flood plain.
Heavy rain and wind storms saw various parts of Shrewsbury town centre hit by flooding over Christmas, although not to the extent that we’ve seen in previous years.
Naturally, I took my DJI Phantom out to record some video…
Despite the large length of time between updates, my betting experiment does continue – so far I’ve not actually won anything (shock!) but I’ve got another four bets to do to meet the requirements of the original scheme.
The last update saw me putting bets on various Champions League matches – and funnily enough, I got 3 out of the 4 results correct – it was only Manchester United drawing with Shakhtar Donetsk that cost me the win on that occasion.
After that, it was bets on four international matches (I think they were friendlies, but I can’t remember for sure) and again, it was 3 out of 4 correct.
I then deviated from the pattern slightly and placed six bets on a single accumulator. This time, I got 4 correct.
I have since left it for a bit while I concentrate on other things, but the remaining four bets will be concluded in the New Year – where I hope to actually bloody win something.
The last bet I put on didn’t come off either, but this time I did have a higher success rate – out of the four matches I placed a bet on, only one of them didn’t come good this time.
If only Bristol City hadn’t equalised against Colchester United, that would have been £32.79 in the kitty and I’d have had my first leap forward on the chain.
A multi-faceted post, this. Firstly, a little rant about Birmingham City Centre.
This isn’t really the fault of the city or the city council or anything, it’s more the fault of the developers of the building that houses the Cineworld IMAX complex in Birmingham’s Broad Street.
Yesterday, inspired by a work colleague and dreams of riches beyond my wildest dreams (!) I placed an accumulator bet for the first time in my life.
For those unaccustomed to betting, as I was, the principle behind an acculumator is simple – you place a series of bets (minimum of 4, apparently) and put a single stake on all of them together.
If you win all of the bets, you win the combined return of all of the odds together (although the maths to work it out is something that eludes me at 9am in the morning.)
If even just one of the bets doesn’t win, you get nothing.
At work, we use 123-reg to handle our domain registrations. They’re not the cheapest domain registrar, but they’re not far off, and they don’t charge extra for things like changing IPS TAG or allowing access to DNS management.
Their automated renewal systems are generally pretty bullet-proof too, and apart from a couple of issues with their website over the years we’ve used them, we’ve had no complaints.
But what I can’t work out – for the life of me – is why they’ve changed their auto-invoice e-mails to ensure that everyone clued up on spam and phishing e-mails automatically assumes that it’s a fake e-mail.