Every year we get along to Sir Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey to enjoy their Art in the Garden.  See our full set of photos in our gallery.
Sadly, we were disappointed with the 2008 event; There just weren’t many art installations; and those we saw were either on the same theme as last year or [...]

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Today was Tolii’s last swim lesson for this term. He earned his “Duckling Award Grade 4” certificate from the Judy Sporle swim school!
More importantly for Tolii, he got a badge!
The “exam” was last week; so today was a bit of a practice session and a chance to have a bit of fun. Vicki took Tolii [...]

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Here’s a blatant plug for the yet-unavailable program from Microsoft Research: World-wide telescope (WWT). There’s a presentation about it from this year’s TED conference, too. Availability of the free program is in “Spring 2008″.
Google Earth already has something similar, and has been available for a while: Google Sky (select “View” then “Switch to Sky”; [...]

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About The Place…

The Intech Science Centre and Planetarium is just outside Winchester. Its spread across two floors and includes a planetarium which is linked to the main pyramid by a small corridor. There is an outside picnic area and a café.
 

The menu [...]

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Now that Tosha has contented himself with gumming up Daddy’s computer’s DVD drive, he has moved on to more interesting experiments.
Daddy had taken Tosha upstairs to brush his teeth; and then left for work after returning Tosha downstairs.
A bit later, mummy told the boys to go upstairs to brush their teeth. Tosha said that [...]

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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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After swim lessons, Tolii and daddy stopped at the park nearby. After a good play and pee in the bushes (does he drink the entire contents of the pool?), we got back into the car to meet granny, who was shopping at Homebase.
Tolii asked how you drive a car.
“You take lessons from a professional [...]

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Today, Tolii swam the entire width of the pool by himself! Three times!
He kicked his feet and put his hands over his head while looking down into the water.
Watch out Olympics 2016!

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Today, daddy gave two 3-minute speeches at the Oxford heat of FameLab. He won his heat but not the final. He spoke about Bluetooth’s frequency hopping spread spectrum technology and about the global positioning system.
It inspired him to register the domain ScienceSimply in the hope that he’ll find the time to create a [...]

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