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Rosie vs New Kate (update)

Six months or so ago, I wrote a comparison piece between New Kate (TomTom) and Rosie’s built-in satnav (RNS-E). At that time, and since, I’ve generally settled for Rosie over Kate, but thought that perhaps, on a longer trip around … Continue reading

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Holiday Planning

It’s that time of year when we plan our summer holiday, and this year we’re off on Euro Road Trip II. Two weeks zooming around Europe, although fewer stops this time and therefore more time at each place. The Italian … Continue reading

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Wales

The last bank holiday weekend, we headed over to North Wales again. I loved it last time, wandering mostly around Snowdonia, with a bit of pottering around other interesting places, and we stayed in a rather lovely manor. This time, … Continue reading

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2009

About this time last year, I wrote this, a review of 2008. I did one for 2007 too, so might as well do one for 2009. 2009 started with some uncertain ill health, that turned out to be gall stones. … Continue reading

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Winter travel in UK

2009 sees another winter where the UK seemingly can’t cope. For us, it started with an aborted attempt to spend the weekend in Brussels before Christmas. We were to take Herman on Le Shuttle and across through France and Belgium. … Continue reading

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Pirate’s Beach

So we went to Pirate’s Beach Club in Tekirova, Turkey for a bit of sun and to catch up with some of my in-laws. Warning, the link above has very annoying background music – music they played a lot at … Continue reading

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Gobble Gobble Gobble

We’re off to Turkey! Mother-in-law, sister-in-law and niece are already there (a beach resort near Tekirova, apparently) and we’re heading off on Saturday to meet them. I’ve never seen niece before and haven’t seen the others for a few years, … Continue reading

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Notes from seven countries

Last month, we took a break from the madness of work and headed over to mainland Europe with Herman for a two-week tour of seven countries. It’s taken me a few weekends to sort out all the photos on Flickr, … Continue reading

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Better

The last few weeks have been quite difficult for me. Work has been generally unsatisfactory as there is way too much support/management and not enough hands-on development work. This was made worse by my boss taking a couple of weeks … Continue reading

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Canada

We’re in Canada this weekend. At least that’s what the weather report in our hotel’s reception would suggest. We’re actually in Trebetherick, Cornwall, England, but the fool who got the weather report just typed ‘cornwall’ into the BBC weather website … Continue reading

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