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BA, not away

Did you know that you really can’t easily get to the train station early in the morning? My choices were the 0438 train, the 0547 train or missing my 0730 flight. And the road down the hill from us is … Continue reading

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More patients

Today was almost a repeat of yesterday. I managed as well to get a number of items taken care of at CHPPMEUR over lunch. All my patients actually showed up on time (except for the last who canceled). Leaving LRMC … Continue reading

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seeing patients

I was up early. Really early since I was going to be working at LRMC for the day. My commuting route, the A6, is often under construction. Since I hadn’t driven it in the last month, it was going to … Continue reading

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Flying BA

This is the episode in which we go to the airport, fly to Frankfurt, are actually picked up and driven home. Since it is the eldests birthday, she gets presents. Mostly, however it is about socks. With ~1700 flights, we … Continue reading

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Caerphilly Castle

We drove to Cardiff to buy some used car seats. I mean seats for the van, lest you be confused that I am looking to fasten small monsters inside my vehicle. I am sure that I have mentioned a couple … Continue reading

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Back to Croughton

Perhaps we should skip the part about getting stuck on the M40 behind a major accident and having to bail off on the A40 to do a short cross country parallel universe jaunt? Or the part where we managed to … Continue reading

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Just a little bit

Since I spent most of the day out of the office at a meeting (out in Upavon, where ever that is) returning quite late, the only thing on the fiber front I was able to accomplish was this: Yep, they … Continue reading

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Douglas House

This is Douglas House, the admin building for the Deutsch Shule London located in Richmond. and then there is the guy in the reception area. I appreciated him a lot, but the kids really didn’t find him all that funny. … Continue reading

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Found them

Or perhaps it would be better to say that they found me. The teens were arriving at London City Airport this morning. Early, oh lets say around 0645. Starting at 0715, I tried reaching them on their cell phones. All … Continue reading

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Rattling teeth

In the middle of the night I awoke shivering, huddled in a small ball in the middle of the bed. The register felt like ice, stone quiet cold. For a minute, I thought I was in Minnesota and did what … Continue reading

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It took 40 Minutes

I got up early. My intention was to drive to Richmond and back before the traffic got horrible. The 42 km took 40 minutes; on a Sunday morning before 0800 without traffic. This does not bode well for doing this … Continue reading

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Stonehenge

When the one section head offered to take me along on a tourist trip today, I was more than ready for the chance. Stonehenge. One of those places that you have known about so long that you don’t have even … Continue reading

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Internet!

Would you believe I now have working internet at the office? Between other things, I updated Ravelry today with the projects that I had both started and finished while essentially off-line. At the same time, it looks like the delivery … Continue reading

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Progress!

I am making progress – and there is a future in sight! Today, when I woke up and tested the phone I actually had a dial tone and service. My Internet is supposed to be turned on starting the 28th. … Continue reading

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You call it what?

To mitigate some of my confusion, I asked one of the staff officers to walk me through some of the basic British Army vocabulary. Some things become very clear when explained and others make absolutely no sense at all. For … Continue reading

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Task List

Write and send in last week’s summary set up some automatic payments with Barclay’s attempt to sort out on-line banking call BT call T-mobile re-create mailing lists try to get a housing bill email everyone to whom I owe something … Continue reading

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OPCs

stands for other people’s computers. People with a sense of humour and a willingness to trust their equipment to you and your memory stick. Socks Since I am inserting here – you will just get pix, with the explanations saved … Continue reading

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what do you do when you can’t get on line

Socks Of course is the answer. And you write your notes and take your pictures just waiting for the opportunity to post them. So, I bring you progress on the blue boot socks, so that you will have something to … Continue reading

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First the Hem

Viking Sweater first, then the summary of the year. Why? I am interspersing knitting with updating webpages, sock pages and filling of boxes for the post office tomorrow. Viking Ship Sweater It isn’t the officially correct way to knit a … Continue reading

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the Terrace

It is rare in the U.S. or in Germany for houses or areas to have names. That is not to say that we don’t have housing areas or subdivisions, but these contain street names. The houses then are identified by … Continue reading

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