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South West Business Expo featuring keynote speakers such as some bloke who won the apprentice and a panel of women CEOs, this is where I find myself on a foggy Thursday morning. Typically I detest these sorts of event and for all the same reasons I detested this one, but at least it was in…
Following on from a successful fireworks test on bonfire night, we decide to take the kids to a huge display at the Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare. The info tells us the fireworks will happen between 19:30 and 20:00 so we arrive a 19:20 and take up our positions. Naturally the fireworks don’t start until 20:00…
It’s bonfire night and we aren’t sure how our kids will react to massive fireworks and bonfires so we go next door to join them for some garden based fun. Anyway the kids loved it and we had some pretty glorious eat and drink to make it work nicely for the adults too!
As the kids get older you can no longer avoid observing key dates in the year like halloween and bonfire night, so I figure I’ll get a pumpkin and carve it because it seems like something I might enjoy and messing it up results in nothing lost other than the 79p it cost to buy…
I thought we went to Westonbirt Arboretum last year. And that we were going back a year later. But I am a dummy because apparently we went in March and I am just unable to accurately gauge the concept of time. Anyway, off we go in the car for an hour with this romantic view…
Recently, we bought Bruce his first bike. He was so excited to go to the bike shop and pick out the one he wanted, and we couldn’t wait to get him on it and see him speeding around. So we get home and put on his helmet and on he gets. However ours, and his…
Pack suitcases, set alarm for 03:00, wake up very bleary eyed children and head for the airport. We’re going on holiday! This year saw us visiting Moraira in Spain, which was a really lovely resort. The villa we stayed in on the other hand, not so much. Well, unless exposed electrical wires, non functioning lights,…
We’ve got a bedtime routine which we tend to stick to fairly strictly – it gets them both off to sleep without any fuss which is frankly an essential survival tool for us given the repeated early starts they subject us to. Last night I’m playing out the usual exchanges with Bruce, and he throws…
A couple of difficult weeks at work are enough to make me appreciate that although my children do appear to be out to destroy me, they really are pretty great most of the time. Our operation to put an end to the 05:00 start time to the day is going well and we’re starting to…
I went to Manchester on a train for software security conference event thing. I spent eight hours fourty minutes on a train. It was not very comfortable, and there were people there. I did not enjoy it. Manchester was good, but it was raining and I had a light grey suit on. Anyway, photos!