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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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Sickness
We have had two sick people in the last week me and Ariana. I’m still sick so I get to stay home from school. It realy hurts. At scool I’ve got three new subjects History,physik and French. French is cool.Elijah
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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…
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Broadband Comes to Town
Even though I knew the village we were shifting to was small I thought that broadband internet access was available everywhere in Germany. Unfortunately that wasn’t true and even the largest company (Deutsche Telekom or T-Online, T-Mobile etc) had few options[1]. All I wanted was something that meant the phone could be used at the…
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Holiday Plans: Summer 06
Unfortunately our time away this year will be a little less than we would like, due mostly to being book-ended between my experimental preparations at work and the children returning to school. Joshua also has a week-long excursion with the youth at church (see our online calendar for more ‘when’ details on these things). So…