Most times when a Geek Dinner is announced for London, it’s really not practical for me to attend. What with a journey of around an hour by train into the centre of the city, and then often a need to take the Underground to wherever the dinner is being held it’s really not practical to [...]

So today Lucy reached the milestone of her first birthday. She has definitely developed her own little personality over that year, and is pretty clear what she does and doesn’t like (although that does seem to change from day to day). For example yesterday she seemed to have decided that she didn’t like peas – [...]

So this last week has been pretty monumental. Apparently some bloke was elected president across the pond, but the big news is our baby Lucy was born on Tuesday.
As some of you may know, Beth was diagnosed with gestational diabetes part way through the pregnancy. Basically what this means is that thanks to the hormones [...]

Okay, another bit of a gap in blogging, and another catch up!
Pregnancy wise, Beth has been back and forth to the hospital several times over the past couple of weeks with stuff related to the gestational diabetes. The dietary stuff didn’t overly work – indeed her blood sugar seems to go all over the place [...]

Hmmm, that looks like a Nintendo Wii hooked up to one of our projectors…
Yes, that’s exactly what it is, and yes we did have Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games playing on it too, but it was all in a good cause.
One of the groups of users that one of my colleagues works with [...]

Our “garden shed for purposes ancillary to dwelling� is now going up, despite the pretty lousy weather. Beth is taking pictures of the operation as it progresses, a slideshow of which you can see below.
 
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
So far the only small issue has been over the routing of the power cable. The original idea [...]

So there we were, sitting watching the TV, when I hear a weird noise from outside. Stepping out into the garden, this is what we saw, a Virgin hot air balloon coming down rather quickly. These pictures show the view as it went over and came to rest on the garrison sports field, amazingly coming [...]

Sometimes there are times when you really feel for people organising live shows, Friday night was one of those nights. Over the years we seem to have turned into one of the many Basingstoke Tappers groupies, and have been along to every summer show they’ve done for the best part of a decade. Reading through [...]

We’ve just got back from the hospital after the mid-term scan. This scan was a bit longer than the first, with the ultrasound operator having to take a number of measurements to make sure everything is okay, and made somewhat more difficult by the baby starting off in a bit of an awkward position, and [...]

On Saturday evening we headed off to Yateley to help celebrate Howard reaching the ripe old age of thirty, and had a great time. Needless to say I took the odd picture or two, plus some video. The pictures can all be found in our photo galleries, and the video can be found on both [...]

This post is the result of a request, so is a bit different than my usual Church or techie postings, and is being posted as a result of the friend we spent New Year with in Plymouth asking why I hadn’t mentioned them on the blog, my answer was that I’d half written something, but [...]

What are you doing on May 5th? Whatever you’re doing, take pictures of it, and then you can participate in the 24 Hours of Flickr event. The idea is to record a day in the life of the many and varied members of Flickr. The best pictures will be showcased at Flickr events over the [...]

So the much predicted snowfall finally hit our area overnight.
As usual for a snow day in Southern England, scores of schools are closed, and there is travel chaos. This is the view of our office car park at just before 9am this morning – somewhat more empty than usual. However since I’m now working only [...]

So we’ve just got home from the end of a decidedly busy weekend, as the various Christmas engagements got into full swing.
We started off straight from work on Friday night with the school play at Beth’s school, preceded by a dinner with colleagues from the English department at the Blubeckers restaurant in Twyford – the [...]

So tonight we had a couple of surprise visitors at Choir Practice. Andrew had been dropping hints all night that there were going to be a couple of extra sopranos coming along, and it didn’t really click who it was until they walked in!
Rachel and Kathryn appeared part way through the adult practice, and were [...]

After the Developer Day, comes the night. With a number of people staying around the area and heading home tomorrow, plus one or two like myself and Dave who live locally, three out of the four Developer Day’s have been followed up by a dinner, this one being organised by Zi Makki.
As with the DDD2 [...]

So after the stress of earlier in the week, we took a nice outing to the annual feast of Mac and iPod that is the Mac Expo, which thanks to our free tickets that I picked up two months ago only cost us the train fare (a lot less than the £24 it would have [...]

So, with us having returned the final set of enquiries, signed the contract at the weekend, and Beth about to start talking to moving companies, essentially ready to exchange, earlier this evening we had a shock phone call from the agent – our buyers have pulled out.
According to the agent they said that some [...]

Sometimes there is a little bit of justice. This morning I was coming down the Barkham Road to work, and on the 40mph stretch stuck to 40mph as usual. As is often the case at rush hour I had an idiot behind me, who I can only assume was late for something. Suffice to say [...]

As part of Beth’s parents visit last week, we spent a few days down staying with family down in Devon. Whilst in my childhood trips to Devon were to see my grandparents in Dawlish, now it is my aunt and uncle who live a bit further along the coast in Exmouth. It is a good [...]