Year: 2006
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I Wish I Was A Daffodil
I wish I was a daffodilPeople would call me Billy.I turn my face to the sun,Now wouldn’t that be silly. a poem for english class
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School Stuff
This school year I have started some new subjects (Latin, geography & chemistry) and my classes have changed from last year. I’ve not done much study because I am too busy playing Runescape online. I have Latin with my old history teacher and he’s as blind as a bat and he reads a book the…
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Christmas Plans 2006
Heading for our second Christmas north of the equator and it still has a movie-like feel about it. Having grown up with Christmas during the summer time — and all the wonderful things that means — a northern hemisphere Christmas seems a bit like living in a movie. You know, you’ve seen many things in…
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Blogger Hiccup
Google have released an updated version of Blogger — the site and software which power this blog. During the change over many articles were ‘re-published’, so to speak, when we applied the new labelling system [1]. So if you subscribe to the blog via the Atom or FeedBlitz newsfeeds (see down the left-hand side of…
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Summer Holiday 2006
OK, so we are a little behind in reporting some of our trips, including Bavaria, Paris and our summer holiday to Croatia — in reverse chronological order. So first one first let’s go through our haul over to Croatia. The purpose of this holiday was different to last year’s summer excursion. Last year it was…
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Recent Birthdays
This time of year is always busy in our family with birthdays. Children recently on the receiving end were, in chronological order, Mara (the 19th of October), Bryna (the 30th of October) and Joshua (the 9th of November). They clocked 10, 3 and 13, respectively. Mara wished to get her ears pierced. I offered but…
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Paranimf-in’
A little while ago two PhD students at work graduated from their respective Dutch universities. I had had a small hand in helping both of them with their theses — mostly editing (thanks be to Brett), English and some thoughts on layout. I attended the graduation ceremonies of both and they are somewhat different to…
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German Driver’s Licence
This post is part vent, part information. So, the time has come for me to obtain my German driver’s licence[1] and there are a number of rules governing the use of foreign licences here. For starters the most infuriating part is the sheer bureaucratic and almost arbitrary nature of which licences are easily exchangeable. Once…
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Back to School
I remember in Australia the new school year was always a time of excitement and a little anxiety about whether the children would have the right teacher and the right friends in their class. Well this feeling is greatly exaggerated when the system and the language is unfamiliar (or barely familiar). To further compound this…