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Back from sunny (at times) Cornwall, where we were staying at Tredethick Farm - a holiday location we can heartily recommend to any pre-schooler parent. We were a little unlucky with weather and health, but it didn't matter to Arianne: indoor softplay, sand pit and swimming pool; outdoor trampoline, playground with multiple scooters, push-along ( Read more... )

Have now left Quantlab, and won't start at Google until June 3rd. So a bit of holidaying, probably a bit of DIY, decorating and gardening and a fair amount of simple running around after Arianne. And a frantic bit of "Oh crap I'm not covered by Death In Service for a month, I'd better sort out life insurance ( Read more... )

In the states, they have no concept of "mansize" tissues. If you look on amazon.co.uk, dozens of options appear. Go to amazon.com, and the only sensible link (e.g. not Dead Space 3 Collectors Edition!?) is a 7 quid box which if you check is actually specially imported from the UK ( Read more... )

As already mentioned in the friends-locked post, before I handed in my notice: I will be moving to Google in a month or so's time ( Read more... )

If you cast your mind so far back that I can't be bothered searching for the LJ post in question, back in Hayes I put in laminate flooring in our small, square dining room. It took me a great deal of time: well in excess of a weekend if I recall correctly. Well we needed flooring in our significantly larger, u-shaped loung/dining room, and what ( Read more... )

94.7%: I guess my old exam-taking muscles are still there under the fat. A combination of ( Read more... )

I've reached the rather odd situation of playing "triple-A" games for free[1], as I get them from lovefilm, but paying out cash for obscure indy titles, because they're not available for rental ( Read more... )

... to that little Katamari prince dude. Rolling up stuff into balls is actually hard work. Still A was happy to see a snowman, so it was worth it ( Read more... )

COstco have finally started selling stuff from their UK website. However their eclectic range of goods, and default choice of ordering by price leads to some minor sticker shock. For instance go to toys/electronic and the first item is a ninety thousand pound race car simulator. Go to televisions and you're presented with a half-million pound 146" ( Read more... )