Archive for the ‘personal’ Category

We’re off to Tuscany …

Image via Wikipedia Well, not quite now! .. But following that competition everyone voted for us in, I’ve found out that we’ve actually managed to get the top number of votes and therefore won the competition to go to Tuscany. That’s great news, but I don’t know the details, so...

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Give us a vote: Send us to Tuscany

I’ve just entered a competition by FuelMyBlog who are working with LastMinute.com to send a couple on a great holiday to Tuscany. Rules are simple, the person with the most votes wins, so check out our entry below and go ahead and vote for us! All you have to do...

Countdown to Double Trouble

Well, we’re safely in our second trimester now, so we’ve started seriously thinking about what we need for the twins. We kept all the things we used for Arthur when he was a baby, but we need to double up on things now. One cot isn’t going to be enough...

Two buns in the oven

It’s been almost 4 years since my Bun in the Oven announcement that turned out to be the wonder that is Arthur, and only recently we decided to see if we could repeat the magic with some of the embryos that were frozen when he was conceived. Well, only a...

Learning about myself

I had an interesting experience today. I organised a talk for the BCS about development techniques, specifically unit testing, TDD and BDD. Granted, it’s a bit of a geeky subject, but hey, it is the British Computer Society, and a technical event was well overdue. We had a great turnout,...

Twas the night before Christmas

Well almost. It’s the night before the night before Christmas and our house is full of wrapping paper, the turkey is sitting in the fridge and the tree is sparkling in the corner. I’m finally getting into the spirit, but I’m working tomorrow, so I’m not quite there yet. We...

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