The office was quite a bit busier today, we had some more people move in, plus Vlad and Nick were back. Paul and I were able to continue with integrating more stored procedures as the problems with them had apparently been sorted.

Nikki was a bit better today, she does have a cough, but at least the sneezing fits have gone!

I spoke to a couple more friends from holiday, John & Mavis to see if they're going again this year - and they are which is good news. My mate Andy rang up to tell me about how his mum had broken her wrist and that his son Josh had been bitten by a Staffordshire bull terrier while they were at Flamingoland yesterday.

I hadn't done any work on Wayne's website for a while so I thought I'd do a bit more this evening, that coupled with watching a bit of television was how the rest of the evening panned out.

Nikki wasn't that much better today, it would appear she does indeed have my cold, she felt quite groggy all day.

It appears Nikki wasn't the only one suffering either - Vlad didn't show up at lunchtime as he wasn't feeling to good, that meant only Jon that showed up as Shabana was on holiday. Nick had also taken the day off so it was quite an empty office. We couldn't manage to get a great deal done due to us still awaiting work being done on the stored procedures.

Again we gave the gym a miss, I still had the remnants of the cold and Nikki was getting worse. Instead we popped down to Asda to get a few things and to have a look at digital cameras, my mum mentioned that she would quite like one when she was over yesterday. I spotted a bargain - a Casio Exilim Z1050 for £67, typically they didn't have any in stock so we took a drive across to another Asda, at Bierley in Bradford. They did have one left - so I bought it. That's one Christmas present sorted!

My cold was a bit better today, although I did have a considerable cough. We didn't go to the gym but we did have a visit from my mum. She came about 11am and stayed for an hour or so.

After lunch we went into Bradford. We got a scratching post and bed for Indie ready for when she goes into the cattery and some provisions.

Later on we went to a barbecue at my sister Jacqueline's which was a good laugh. She'd only invited us and her husband Andrew's sister Katy and her husband Ian, who we hadn't seen for ages. I'd got a keg of beer while we were out earlier, getting th ebeer out was quite a challenge - it either sprayed out with great force delivering a glassful of foam or nothing came out at all! We had a few drinks and played a couple of daft games even the weather was quite kind to us and we didn't get wet!

I may well have passed my cold onto Nikki, she wasn't feeling too great a bit later on, but she couldn't be sure if it was an allergic reaction to Jacqueline's dog.

My cold really showed its face today - typical when we had plan to go and see some friends Bob & Marjorie up in Gateshead! I had planned on driving but as it was Nikki drove because I felt dreadful.

We left home about 10am and were in Gatehead for jus before midday which wasn't bad going. We managed to find their house without too much of a problem. Lucnh was booked at a pub called the South Causey Inn. Some other friends, Malcolm & Sandra were also coming across from Morecambe, we had to wait for them to arrive and they managed to get lost!

Anyway we weren't waiting too long for them. Lunch was very nice. We all then went back to Bob & Marjorie's afterwards.

Nikki and I set off home about 8pm, the journey home wasn't too bad, we were home before 10pm despite the pouring rain that started as we reached Boroughbridge!

Due to there not being a great deal to showcase we didn't bother today, instead we carried getting on with integrating more stored procedures.

As we are getting more people in the office next week we had a bit of reshuffling and tidying up. I moved a PC and managed to graze my hand on some trunking in the process - so much for trying to be helpful!