Russell McQuillan….

Posted: December 30, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment



Russell McQuillan….

Originally uploaded by robelkin

struggling with my camera memory at Belfast Spendmas

Restaurant Review – Del Toro Lisburn

Posted: December 29, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Restaurant Reviews | Tags: , , , | 7 Comments

I really would like to give you a review of Del Toro in Lisburn, the new steak house that has just opened however sadly it is not meant to be.

I planned on going there on New Years Eve with my family (11 people) to celebrate my Mothers birthday, however a day after making the booking the Manager called me up to inform me that they would not be able to offer us the normal menu but rather the New Year’s Eve gourmet menu at a staggering £45 per head. (plus a 10% service charge)

We cancelled !

In times of a recession and in Lisburn of all places, how a restaurant thinks they can get away with £45 a head for a meal just baffles me.

Top Gear Challenge – Edinburgh Castle to Buckingham Palace

Posted: December 29, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: | Leave a comment

After the success of our our first top gear challenge, we are going to do it all over again !!

Feb 27th at 9.07am

Edinburgh Castle to Buckingham Palace

First one there wins !!

Teams,

Road cars : Must stick to the speed limits and no sat navs allowed

Public transport : No taxi’s allowed

Plane : No commercial airlines allowed, you are welcome to fly yourself or hire a private jet !

Its on ! Bring it !

Are you up for the challenge ? Are you ready to join the adventure ?

This is an 18 and over event, perfect for leaders or explorers moving into network scouts.

There is further info on Facebook here
And a reg form here

Merry Christmas and Thanks

Posted: December 24, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: | Leave a comment

To all my readers,
To all my followers
To all my facebook friends
To all my human friends

To all I have humored, interested, educated and unintentionally offended

To all I have bored with my business and scouting related posts.

And to all I have flamed, I wish you a very Merry Christmas

Thanks for following !!

Here is to 2009, I shall leave you with two videos.  The first is an idiot that cannot drive and the second is an ad that touches my heart every year !

Russell

Belfast Spendmas – A documentation process

Posted: December 18, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

This Saturday a bunch of us are getting together to hits the shops in Belfast but we won’t be spending any money……..

The plan is to photograph and document for future generations the busiest shopping day of the year in the capital city of Belfast.  It’s a great free event put together using the power of twitter by Rob Elkin

Alan in Belfast writes about the event in his blog, his years of blogging about events and politics give him a polished writing style that I could only aspire to, so I suggest you read in more detail about the event over at alaninbelfast

The one thing I will add however it that it never fails to amaze me how much the power of the interwebs has grown over the years, this event was pulled together from nothing, a simple message on twitter at around 140 key strokes and a bunch of replies later we have an event any event management company would be envious off.

Dear Santa

Posted: December 7, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: | Leave a comment

Dear Santa,

I’m assuming you cannot get me the following

1.  A fully pimped our off road defender

2. A mark 1 golf GTI

3. A mark 1 205 GTI

4. A mark 1 1961 cooper S

5. A Hi-Lux pick up

6. A GT3

7. A range rover sport, any year.

8. A date with Richard Hammond

So in absense of the above can I please have the following

1. Clarksons newest DVD

2. Top Gear uncovered DVD

3. A pair of combats for scouts (loads of pockets)

4. A one cup coffee decanter

Thank you, that is all

Russell

ps, ive been a good boy this year

Open Coffee Lisburn : Nearly a year on

Posted: December 7, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

It was last January that myself, Andrew Gribben and Simon McCartney decided that enough was enough and Lisburn should to earn its place on the global Open Coffee movement and start our own in Lisburn, days later we had our first meeting in Cafe Vic Ryn on the Moira road and it was born.

Things have changed alot over the last year, more and more people are coming to the meetings and with every new person the dynamic changes ever so slightly but always in a good way.

What started out as nearly a purely techy meeting, now has a good mix of tech, business, photography, news, politics and humour.  As ever no agenda is set and who ever can make it shows up and the conversation flows from there.

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