We had our third and final Parent Craft lesson tonight which covered everything from 3rd stage labour to breast feeding and bathing. Most of it was useful stuff and it was nice to be able to ask some questions of the trained midwives. However the section on breast-feeding could do with some work. After asking [...]
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We’ll always have Paris
We spent a rather spiffy weekend in Paris on the occasion of Fliss’ Mum’s birthday. We were a little out of the centre but in a rather plush penthouse flat kitted out with a full projector based home cinema system as well as a hot tub and roof garden wet-room. I posted a video of [...]
7 Arena Fights, 1 Quest and a fairly late night…
..have left my a little weary this morning. I spent this weekend at my first full length Odyssey event which gave me a fuller impression of the world than last years quick visit. The arena is still my favourite part of the experience. Certainly as I don’t get much LARP combat these days it’s nice [...]
Flash Looting
As the sun rises on a new day and businesses across the country count the cost of the nights violence we awake to a new phenomena. The technology and social networking that brought us the Flash Mob have now brought us the Flash Loot. When you start hearing some of those involved talk about their [...]
Bright Lights, Big City
I took advantage of my proximity to the big city 45 minutes away on the train yesterday. I joined Rich and Al and the growing number of Northern refugees at the Great British Beer Festival at Earls Court. While I’m afforded free entry to most beer festivals courtesy of my CAMRA membership I only got [...]
Move along, nothing to see here.
It’s been a while since I’ve last posted. I make a conscious effort not to post general household news in favour of things that stimulate debate and comments. I hope that my writings end up being interesting to someone even if it is only me reviewing these posts in the future. However the gap between [...]
Pensions
A number of public sector unions are striking today over changes to their pension arrangements. As a result Fliss has gone into London today rather than working from home, hopefully balanced out by a slightly less insane commute. Before she left for her train we listened to Mark Serwotka debating with Francis Maude on the [...]
Board Now
The weekend surprised me a bit. I was expecting a so-so weekend with thunderstorms. In the end we ended up with a pretty good Saturday and a fantastic Sunday. Fliss celebrated her penultimate bit with board games and general merriment. We have acquired a new game, Hex Hex which I have vague memories of having [...]
Looking back
Looking back at last years visit by Jeff and Phil I can see the June weather was also a little changeable – I’m hoping it will improve for the weekend. Fliss’ dad is currently visiting from the land down under so yesterday afternoon we wondered down to the local riverside drinking establishment to watch the [...]
Travelling while moving
Last week I went to Fulda in Germany to attend the OpenNMS European User Conference. OpenNMS is an open source network management system which we make fairly heavy use of at work. The conference was an opportunity to catch up on developments in the project and get a sense of how it was being used. [...]
