This evening, Rita cooked us Nando-fied chicken, which was enjoyable (I do like Nando's), and then Sarah helped me out with my experiment - shifting video files to burn to DVD-R from Rita's PC to Sarah's laptop using my external HD, and then burning them to DVD-R using PrimoDVD running on Sarah's laptop. Thankfully, it worked a treat (the alternative, I guess, would have been going to Chelmsford at the weekend and picking up my external DVD drive), and I was able to get Ashes to Ashes season 3, and disc 2 of FlashForward (the "season 1" bit seems sadly superfluous...). A good start, but more to go.
That's about it, really, but I guess that makes it a fairly productive evening.