I popped over to the Rohde & Schwarz office in Aalborg, Denmark for meetings on Tuesday.
What a fabulous building!  It used to be an old gas works - converting coal into gas.  It was derelict for 20 years before R&S took it over about 4 years ago.  They built up three floors inside it.  Its [...]

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The only sheep we saw was a stuffed toy.  However, the rest of the party in Whitchurch’s neighbouring town, Overton, was beyond expectations.  They closed Winchester Rd to have a big party (more photos in our gallery).
Who can’t enjoy watching the local townswomen getting out to protest for the vote?  I really do have to [...]

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I* was in Munich for a meeting on Thursday. I get there about half a dozen times a year. Fly in the night before, get to the hotel late, have a bite to eat**, sleep unsoundly (although its getting better, usually asleep by 1:30am [12:30am UK time]), wake up, have breakfast, walk to [...]

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We arrived back on Friday afternoon from our wonderful holiday in Corfu, Greece.  There’s so much to tell that we wrote a separate page about it all!  But here’s a taste…
Corfu is a beautiful mountainous island with many things to explore; and some very cool beaches to bathe on.  The hospitality of the people were [...]

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Andrew was in Oslo for a 3-day Bluetooth SIG face-to-face meeting on the topic of the new low energy, formerly ULP, formerly WiBree, formerly…well, you get the picture. The conference was at the Texas Instruments lab on the Blindern campus of Oslo University.
He had a bit of time to wander around Oslo - not [...]

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What a fantastic weekend we all had. We headed down to a cottage in Dorset for a mini-holiday courtesy of granny. It was one of her Christmas presents to the boys — and oh boy! did they (and us) every enjoy it. So much so that Tolii was in tears leaving the place [...]

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Way back in the autumn of 1991, Andrew spent some time on the island of Sardinia, in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Italy. He mostly just hung out because he was a) young; b) naive; c) broke. A couple of those days were spent helping pick buckets of grapes and then watching [...]

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The Russians are coming (on Canadian built tanks)!
Today, we had an expedition to Portsmouth to explore the tanks, the seaside and the battleships. We had a nice lunch, too.
This is the third time we’ve visited the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, home of Warrior and Victory. And, it is the first time we succeeded in [...]

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Daddy took Tolii into London today for a “day out with Daddy”.
We started the day by missing our 9:12 train because Tosha was dilly-dallying over his breakfast (he does eat it eventually). But hey, it was a day off for daddy, so who really cares?
There was a distraction: the dinosaur eggs that Tolii and [...]

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One of Tolii’s Christmas presents was a book of tickets for various experiences. One of them we cashed in last weekend: a trip to Portsmouth harbour to visit HMS Victory, Nelson’s ship at the Battle of Trafalgar.
A little research beforehand would have revealed that it wasn’t run like the sister ship Warrior: it was [...]

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If you like pretty pictures and flying, then you’d probably like the “reality art” (does any one else call it that?) over at Flight Patterns. It shows the flights within North America over one day.
I got there through a random read of Wikipedia - its home page featured the article on the WTC7 building. [...]

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Daddy is just back from the Bluetooth Unplugfest-28, a quarterly industry meeting for testing all things Bluetooth. Last time it was in Taipei. Next time it is in Las Vegas. This time, it was in…Brussels.
Here is what Bryson had to say on the city: I walked and walked down long streets that [...]

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We’re just back from our holiday in Cargèse, Corsica! It was a wonderful place to visit - warm ocean on a almost-empty beach; great hikes in the mountains; and fun things like a tortise zoo to visit. The zig-zaggy roads were a hit with the kids and daddy, although mummy kept thinking we [...]

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Mummy escaped to the warmer climate of Bergen, Norway for a short conference this week.
Daddy and grandpa were left to fend for themselves and the kids (thankfully, mummy had planned out each day she was away so that no one would go hungry or claim ignorance of what they were supposed to do - even [...]

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We got it! Daddy picked up our new Toyota Verso yesterday. And, already the boys have taken ownership!

We are selling sold! our old Primera on eBay, in case you want to bid on it!

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