Family Flying
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With over 30 trips to the USA in recent years this was the first with the whole gang. Oh my, what have I done? Actually, it wasn't that bad, except that the boys slept enough on the plane to keep us up all through the first night in the hotel. Duh!
Posted by
aiddy
on Thu 31 August 2006
Waiting at airports
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H waiting at Heathrow for BA049 - the boys did good at the whole airport & security thing
Posted by
aiddy
on Thu 31 August 2006
Empty
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The nearly empty dinning room at cross oak road on the last Friday evening
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The look-out-post cleared of toys
Posted by
aiddy
on Thu 31 August 2006
Front & Back
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10 at somewhere north of 100; that's older than my gran.
Where we're off to houses older than my children are said to be 'old', houses older than me appear to be ancient.
Keen eyed
spotters
will notice the
Eucalyptus
is doing well too.
Posted by
aiddy
on Thu 24 August 2006
let by be by
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One house, many boxes and, thanks to Paul, a tidy garden too.
The crossed out items on the to-do list finally outnumber the todo's!
Posted by
aiddy
on Thu 24 August 2006
Can't find my socks
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Day 2: "Mission control, we have a problem, I think you may have packed my socks".
Then again, most of them come courtesy of
BA
, one of the '
benefits'
of traveling so much - or so I'm told, so buying some new ones might be a good idea.
I hope
James
doesn't notice I'm
sockless
when we meet for a beer later, worse that
Magoos
turns out to have a
'smart casual
sock' dress code.
Posted by
aiddy
on Wed 23 August 2006
Prep'ing to move
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A mad mad day today sorting stuff out before the packers arrive. Been too busy to take piccy's - which was a shame because there was loads going on. Instead, I grabbed this image of our
magwall,
now devoid of interesting stuff with just the essentials remaining.
Bart also thinks this moving lark is way outside the comfort zone, but then we're not off to
Strasbourg
.
Note: This post was updated on 2020-12-29 to remove broken links
Posted by
aiddy
on Wed 23 August 2006
What's Behind You?
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Sometimes it pays
not
to look behind you. In this case, while taking a piccy of this tree, I was unaware of the sewage works lurking behind me...
…now
we
know where those flies came from ;-)
Posted by
aiddy
on Mon 21 August 2006
Economy Drive
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"When I was a lad we had to share our shoes".
Does this make me a bad father?
Posted by
aiddy
on Sun 20 August 2006
Packaging
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One of the advantages of packing up the house (or more correctly, of preparing for someone else to pack up the house) is all the fun you can have with the boxes; yes, those boxes that Dad stored for years in the loft just-in-case, but that have to all be taken for recycling now we find we don't need them…
…alternate title "Another
clue for Dan
".
Posted by
aiddy
on Sun 20 August 2006
Cloud Spotting
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One advantage of travelling only with a
plastic bag of not alot
is that you get to go book shopping. So it was at Borders that I came across
The Cloud Spotters Guide
by Gavin Pretor-Pinney (duh! it's
cheaper at Amazon
). The book is excellent, and I must say I've become a bit of a spotter, so much so that Paul went as far as to call me a freak on the last drive home yesterday.
[
www.cloudappreciationsociety.org
]
Posted by
aiddy
on Sat 19 August 2006
Start of the long goodbyes
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The little ones went to
Mead Open Farm
with some of their friends today for some fun before we up sticks and fly.
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There were some cute animals to gaze at too...
Posted by
aiddy
on Wed 09 August 2006
Braunston Pickle
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Early morning view of
Braunston
.
[
local.live.com
]
Posted by
aiddy
on Wed 09 August 2006
More Boating
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Following the success of the
Thames Booze Cruise
we embarked on a lazy jaunt along the
Oxford Canal
to
Braunston
and back.
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The section around Newbold was straightened in the 1820s - resulting in these lovely iron bridges to carry the tow path over the dead ends that remain of the original contour canal.
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Posted by
aiddy
on Wed 09 August 2006
Soccer
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Nothing better on a summer evening than a kick about in the garden - anyone's garden will do. Only trouble is that we now need to remember that it's
soccer
not
football
.
Posted by
aiddy
on Thu 03 August 2006