Tolii helped mummy pick the cherries from our cherry tree today. A few got eaten along the way!
Its been quite a cool summer so far this year - just 18C on some days and lots (!) of rain. No flooding here, but lots up in the north of the country.
In spite of this [...]

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Gill, Katie’s mum, gave us a ring this (mostly) rainy afternoon to see if we could join them at the lovely little nature reserve in nearby Andover called Anton Lakes Local Nature Reserve.
Update: now you can read about the place on our kids’ outings page.
Katya was between Gatwick airport and home (Baba flew home today) [...]

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This afternoon, we trotted off to The Vyne, a National Trust property north of Basingstoke. It was our first visit there - and wow! have we been missing out on this local gem. Absolutely stunning river and yard with a wonderful walk alongside the river to a marsh, complete with bird watch hut. We were [...]

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Tolii is starting to get the hang of swimming! Here he is practicing the “windmill” during his Saturday morning lessons at St. Swithun’s School in Winchester.

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Tolii and Tosha met some of their friends and had a very good time at the Whitchurch primary school’s family fun evening tonight. Tolii loved the bouncy castle and getting his face painted. Tosha loved to chase balloons and play with Joshua!

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Tosha’s best friend is Joshua. Here they are having a road race!
They’re likely to go to Whitchurch Primary School together…may God help their teachers…! 
Perhaps its just the “terrible twos”.  Hmmm, that sounds like a good nickname for them!

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Andrew jetted off to Taipei, Taiwan for the Bluetooth Unplugfest (where engineers from around the world meet to test their Bluetooth devices before releasing them to the public).
Have a look at some photos in our Travel folder.
Its rather humid and rainy this time of year, unfortunately. Thankfully, the hotel is 5-star and has air conditioning…and [...]

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Welcome to the Reeves-Hall family’s blog (again)!
We just moved our blog from Blogger to Wordpress. So, this is the first entry using the new system! It was a bit of work for Andrew, but no work for you. Over time, and in his “free” time,which Andrew classifies as between 9pm and 3am, spiffy features [...]

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This has nothing to do with the family. Microsoft has announced its multi-touch display computer. It was written up in Popular Mechanics.
David Pogue of the NY Times, noticed that it is awfully similar to something first demonstrated by Jeff Han at the TED conference.  Lots of the stuff for it is all preliminary and hacked together [...]

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What a wonderful day for a trip to the National Trust’s Montisfont Mottisfont Abbey near Romsey, Hampshire. The kids loved to splash in the freezing cold stream from the font and watch their dropped sticks float down and over the waterfalls.
Update: see the page we wrote about Mottisfont Abbey

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Tosha decided yesterday that he will ride in front of Tolii in the pushchair (up to now it was Tolii who had to sit over the front wheel, facing backwards). We have no idea what prompted him to swap!
Tosha has been a bit of a terror towards Katya the past few evenings after being [...]

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