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About The Place…
First a bit of family history…Granny was born and raised on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands.
She survived the German occupation of the island during World War II and then emigrated to Canada. She took part in the 50th anniversary celebration [...]

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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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No sooner had grandpa arrived that he departed…for a splendid day out on the Mid-Hants Watercress Line!
The weather, was bland, bordering on pouring rain (luckily not until we got home).  However, that made for some great lighting for my photos — see our gallery!
This is a steam train line that has many engines and rolling [...]

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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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Tosha said to mummy tonight: “I’m an Oaks Boy now, I don’t need a nappy!”
So, Tosha went to bed for the first time without his pull-up.
Now daddy, fresh off the plane from his latest trip to Munich, has to figure out how to get two boys to the toilet for their midnight wee…

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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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Mummy arrived home this afternoon from the European Geosciences Union conference in Vienna, Austria.
She picked up the kids from nursery, who were trying hard not to show how excited they were to see her.
Tosha was fast asleep on the nursery’s chair and then sauntered over to her; Tolii finished what he was doing and then [...]

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About The Place…

The Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is a wonderful place to wander around to see (and climb all over) historic ships.

Most famous of all the ship’s is probably HMS Victory. Its captain, now known as Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, KB [...]

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As life goes on, the more goes on; and the more places we see!
We’ve been to many places around the world, and some nearer to home (which has changed a few times in each of our lives so far!).
You may also be interested in seeing places we take our kids around our home in Whitchurch, [...]

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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 arrived back yesterday from our holiday in Jersey, Channel Islands. The weather was not the typical for July, but this was a bit of a blessing for doing some of the tourist attractions without the sweat, like Mont Orgueil Castle.
We travelled to Jersey by ferry, from Poole. A super-fast ferry got [...]

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Today, daddy returned from his day trip to visit a couple of customers in Cambridge. Yesterday, he took the train from Fleet to Cambridge, via the grungy Tube between Waterloo and Kings Cross. He stayed at the Best Western Cambridge Quy Mill Hotel - a wonderful place with excellent food for dinner! Recommended. [...]

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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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From 33C in Toronto to 8C in London. Its “Global Freezing” here. It was so great to give my kids a big hug after returning from my Canada trip. And boy, one does notice their very Hampshire, English accent after being surrounded by Canadian kids for a few days!
We bundled up and [...]

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