Le Grande Tour
Firstly; thanks to everybody who tested my kitten-based authentication system yesterday. It seems to be working quite well. Claire and I are undergoing a grand tour of the United Kingdom this coming...
View ArticleNews From The Slopes
Fresh from the slopes, over GPRS (at charging rates starting at “two limbs”), comes this report from the Bulgarian Holiday Team (Claire and I, along with my dad and my sisters). JOURNEY: Uneventful,...
View ArticleAnd The Rest Of Bulgaria
Oh yeah, suppose I ought to finish writing about Bulgaria now that we’ve been back a couple of days. MORE SKIING: Aced The Wall in the end, and damn it’s a good run – long and fast and challenging,...
View ArticleProductivity
When we woke up this morning Oxford was caked with a blanket of snow, about two inches thick and growing fast. Ruth, JTA and I thought that we’d make the most of it and go for a walk along the...
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Touring Scotland
While JTA was off breaking parts of his body (and showing off his injuries on Reddit) with Ruth on the second part of their honeymoon, the week before last, I too took some time off work in order to...
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Argh! It Burns! Night 2012
Building on the success of last year’s Argh! It Burns! Night, we Earthlings once again hosted our “alternative” Burns Night this year, last weekend. Yes, we know that’s a little late for Burns Night,...
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Hello 2013: Les Gets
This is the third in a series of four blog posts which ought to have been published during January 2013, but ran late because I didn’t want to publish any of them before the first one. I barely spent...
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The Right Place At The Right Time
I spent last week in the French Alps with JTA, Ruth, Annabel, and some hangers-on. It was great to get out onto the snow again for some skiing as well as some ski-based geocaching, but perhaps the most...
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[Article] Snow Day Like Today
On the other hand: here the snow is thick and heavy! Paul and I made it to Preston in the end, after a series of train journeys along an unusual route (but, remarkably, virtually all running on time)....
View Article[Article] In Which I Express Praise For My Sister
Normal blogging will resume shortly, but I just wanted to quickly take advantage of a period of strong mobile signal as I sit on this Thames Travel bus (oh yeah: I’m in Oxford for a few days) to share...
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[Article] Snow! Again!
It’s snowing! Again! Apparently it’s going to get as low as -7ºC on Sunday. And some fool has a BBQ-on-the-beach planned. Will post more when I find the motivation.
View Article[Article] Snow! Again!
It’s snowing! Again! Apparently it’s going to get as low as -7ºC on Sunday. And some fool has a BBQ-on-the-beach planned. Will post more when I find the motivation.
View Article[Article] Le Grande Tour
Firstly; thanks to everybody who tested my kitten-based authentication system yesterday. It seems to be working quite well. Claire and I are undergoing a grand tour of the United Kingdom this coming...
View Article[Article] News From The Slopes
Fresh from the slopes, over GPRS (at charging rates starting at “two limbs”), comes this report from the Bulgarian Holiday Team (Claire and I, along with my dad and my sisters). JOURNEY: Uneventful,...
View Article[Article] And The Rest Of Bulgaria
Oh yeah, suppose I ought to finish writing about Bulgaria now that we’ve been back a couple of days. MORE SKIING: Aced The Wall in the end, and damn it’s a good run – long and fast and challenging,...
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[Article] Snow Day Like Today
On the other hand: here the snow is thick and heavy! Paul and I made it to Preston in the end, after a series of train journeys along an unusual route (but, remarkably, virtually all running on time)....
View Article[Article] In Which I Express Praise For My Sister
Normal blogging will resume shortly, but I just wanted to quickly take advantage of a period of strong mobile signal as I sit on this Thames Travel bus (oh yeah: I’m in Oxford for a few days) to share...
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