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The Grizzly Death of the Frozen Mouse

January 28th, 2013 | 1 Comment

When you have children, it is nothing, if not informative! Joshua, our eldest, is 11 and animal mad. He had been begging us for ages to allow him to get a reptile of some sort and while happy to do this, the initial expense of setting up was deferred to a birthday / Christmas present. This also gave him the opportunity to firm up on a decision as to what he actually wanted to get. Having been … Read entire article »

Filed under: Animals, Blogaday, Discussion, Food, Playing

Babysitter Required

January 13th, 2013 | 2 Comments

Liz had been away to South Africa to help her mum since Wednesday evening and I had been attempting to balance looking after the children, working, looking after the house and running at the same time. Not easy and more often than not something had to give. I didn’t run Thursday as the electrician had been round for most of the day doing electrical tests on our house – there were a number of issues, mainly … Read entire article »

Filed under: Blogaday, Running, Training

The First Steps

October 6th, 2012 | 2 Comments

All of a sudden, it seems that there have been a lot more things to do than blog, so I’ve not really had the chance to record my daily musings on various subjects. So here’s a bit of a round up from the last couple of weeks. I finally got around to doing my schedule, fitting together a keenly carved plan to allow me rest every third week, while ramping up my mileage no more than … Read entire article »

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Popular Session

September 24th, 2012 | Comments Off

Back to work after a wet Sunday indoors. After returning from the wedding we had a lot more chores to do and the day seemed to slip away quite quickly. I found a problem with my iTunes music store as well, so had so spend a little time doing this in the late hours of the evening. The weather had not improved much by the morning, although I had managed to find my lightweight waterproof jacket to … Read entire article »

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Meeting Old friends

September 23rd, 2012 | Comments Off

We had a busy day planned this Saturday, but were having a bit of a treat as well. With all the normal chores, swimming, etc, we were off to see some colleagues at the wedding of a friend I used to work with a Vodafone in Newbury. Neil and Nic had been together for about 6 years and had finally decided to tie the knot. We didn’t really know Nic that well as I had left … Read entire article »

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Marwell Zoo visit

July 15th, 2012 | Comments Off

A couple of weeks ago we had ventured to Legoland for Morgan’s Birthday ‘party’. Today it was Joshua’s turn and he had chosen to take a couple of friends to Marwell zoo for the day. Given the recent record of wet weather, we had pretty low expectations for having a dry day walking around an open zoo environment, but in the end we were pleasantly surprised. BTW, the water companies have finally lifted the ‘hosepipe ban’ … Read entire article »

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The Wild Place

July 4th, 2012 | 4 Comments

Today was another mixed day, mainly because I only worked half a day, then had the afternoon off to spend a couple of hours with Savannah at school. American independence day had for some weeks had a greater significance for me, and my team at work, as a long planned internal governance committee meeting was planned to decide upon the priority of my larger projects for the rest of the year. Having provided all of the … Read entire article »

Filed under: Blogaday, Playing, Projects, School

Father’s Day

June 17th, 2012 | 2 Comments

Father’s day today, but no let up with the training – albeit still cross-training at the moment. I was not up too early this morning as the alarm was set for just before 6:30am, but it was a bright and light morning, so it was difficult not to get up anyway! This is about the time that the children get up (at the weekends) so they were already downstairs playing by the time I’d got all … Read entire article »

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The Court Movie Studio

June 16th, 2012 | 2 Comments

There’s an App for that I have tinkered with animation, as I suspect most people have in one way or another – flicking pages in the corner of a book, stop motion and even CGI ray tracing animations in the past, mainly just to experiment with the art form, not for any commercial or role based reasons – just for fun. We did a time-lapse movie of the children a couple of years ago which … Read entire article »

Filed under: Blogaday, Family Events, Playing

Quiet Week

June 15th, 2012 | Comments Off

It has been a quiet week (hence the blogging silence), mainly because I had a lot of projects paperwork, specifically project budget analysis for our governance committee. Still, Morgan is home from a field trip this evening, and it is the weekend. He has been out on a school trip for the last few days, where they have camped and done activities at a place called Bentley Copse, which is a local scout camp. I’m sure he … Read entire article »

Filed under: Blogaday, Projects, Training