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Second honeymoon part 1 – KL
Background My first deployment in the Royal Navy was the first half of Global ’90, taking me from Plymouth to Hong Kong. Along the way we stopped in Lumut, Malaysia, which led to a side trip to Pangkor Island. It was paradise, so… when Rachel and I married in summer of ’98 I chose to […]
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Tags: honeymoon, KL, Kuala Lumpar, Shangri-La
Scafell Pike
The Lake District has been a frequent holiday destination since I was a kid, but I’ve never climbed England’s highest mountain there. Partly that’s because it has a reputation for being a tricky climb, which it’s really not (unless you choose to make it tricky). Partly because it’s not so easy to get to (versus […]
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Tags: Chambers Crag, climbing, Great Langdale, hiking, Lake District, Scafell Pike, scramble, walking, Wasdale Head
April 2023
Pupdate It’s (finally) warm enough for the boys to be walking without their coats again :) Loss The month seemed to be marked (and marred) by a number of losses. Dad My Dad died on Easter Saturday, and I heard the news from his wife just as I was getting up on Easter Sunday. After […]
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Tags: Apple Watch, BA, Beat Saber, camera, Dad, disney, eSIM, Florida, lost bag, pupdate, Sea World, solar, Truphone
After a few years away from the slopes due to COVID it was time to get our skis on again. My daughter was going to join a University trip to Tignes, leaving me to figure something out for myself. But at the last minute she decided she’d rather do another trip together. I asked if […]
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Tags: Alps, Chambery, Courchevel, helmet, Inghams, Meribel, Orelle, Ski Tracks, skiing, skis, Three Valleys, Val Thorens
October 2022
Pupdate The boys were too frequently pulling on their lead when wearing harnesses, so we did a bit of slip lead training, and now they’ve got collars and they’re walking much more nicely :) New VPS I’ve mentioned in past posts that I run a handful of VPSs so that I can emerge from the […]
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Tags: Bay Area, home, Premium Plus, pupdate, San Francisco, solar, travel, United, VPS
July 2022
Pupdate Milo’s been with us for a whole year now, which meant he got to join Max this time on our family holiday in the Lake District: Holiday We returned to Keeper’s Cottage on the Graythwaite Estate, as it was brilliant last year, and it was just as good this time around. Heatwave Our trip […]
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Tags: boots, heatwave, Lake District, portal, pupdate, Steam Deck
March 2022
Pupdate Although it’s looking ready to snow outside as I type, we’ve had some glorious summery weather in March, which means plenty of time outside running around for the boys. But the picture that grabbed most attention was this one: People thought we’d got another sausage dog, but it was just the boys hanging out […]
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Tags: eSIM, IoT, MAME, MWC, RC2014, TMS9995, travel
Black Sea ’93
The last few weeks have had me reflecting a lot on my time in Russia and Ukraine almost 30y ago… When I joined the Royal Navy in ’89 we were definitely living in ‘interesting times’. The defence studies lecturers at Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) Dartmouth were tearing up talks they’d used for decades as […]
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Tags: Black Sea, Constanta, Navy, Novorossiysk, Odessa, Russia, Ukraine, Varna
July 2021
Pupdate The big news this month is the arrival of Milo. So we now have double the fun. Holiday The other big news was that we went on holiday for a week in the Lake District. The Lakes were for a while a regular family destination, and then for a variety of reasons we stopped […]
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Tags: bite, boots, Cookaway, cottage, hiking, holiday, insect, Lake District, Lakes, maps, Max, Milo, MT-1300, Raspberry Pi, router, ticks, vacation
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