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2014 In Review / 2015 Ahead
It’s been a long and productive year by most counts, excepting the impartial measurement of time. It’s sometimes instructive to look at the past year in preview and see what was then the future and how much of it came to pass. Though the future is notoriously difficult to predict, that should stop one from…
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Christmas 2014
Wishing you a lovely Christmas and New Year. Bonus points for knowing which book belongs to whom.
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Getting There
After a few months of a very intensive work schedule, these are the last remaining tasks. Scraping together the time to get them done is the challenge now.
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Extending Ourselves
In past posts, I’ve alluded to the planned extension to our home and now that we are getting down to the business end of the deal, I thought I’d better share a post showing what we have planned before everything comes unstuck. 🙂 Even though it has been/will be quite busy around here for the…
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2013 In Review
Just a quick review of what has been this past year, covering events that didn’t make the blog for one reason or another. I’ll post again early next year about what lays ahead. As seems to be typical for our family, we’ve tried to fit in the maximum amount allowable. Gaynor has taken up casual,…
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I Love a Sunburnt Country
The parched grass, the ever-green trees, the sublime colours of the sunset … I love a sunburnt country.
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Christmas 2013
We wish you an enjoyable Christmas and are betting on a great time next year.
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Mara Graduates
Number Three in as many years. Nine-school-veteran Mara and Gaynor just before her college (high school) graduation ceremony. And for Mara this year, three is the number of the ballet exams, the auditions and the times she cleaned her room. A busy year indeed. Well done Miss Mara.
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Heroes at Five
Micah recently celebrated his fifth birthday in fine five-year-old-boy fashion by organising a bunch of close friends to dress-up as their favourite superheroes and run around the park. A few regular heroes organised a bit of food, some semi-structured games and a good time was had by all. Super Micah and his friend Iron Man…
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Half-Life Day
Gaynor and I celebrated our twentieth wedding anniversary a little while ago and, since we were married fairly young, I started wondering how much of my life I have spent married to her. The outcome of that wondering is that I realised that yesterday, 6th of June, I have spent exactly[1] half my life —…