Author Archives: ianmacd

Loose Ends

We’re busy tying up the loose ends in preparation for our trip to Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, which starts next week. That means paying all of our bills, getting an annoying vibration removed from the dashboard of the car, making … Continue reading

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Holiday Season Approaching

The summer is nearly here, although you wouldn’t know it. While Sarah’s folks were here, we had ten days or so of shorts and sandals weather. The last week, however, it’s been very capricious weather. It’s a brave (or naïvely … Continue reading

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Rampaging Infant

Nothing is safe in this house any more. In the last couple of days, Eloïse has started climbing out of her high chair and onto the dining-room table; but that’s not all. She climbed the stairs for the first time … Continue reading

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Bad Hardware Day

The site seems to be running nicely on the old server in the cellar. I’m sure browsing photos isn’t a terribly fast experience any more, but until I can find a reasonably priced hosting provider I can trust, this is … Continue reading

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Gallery Restored

Our photo gallery is back on-line. I was able to bring it back much more quickly than I had first anticipated, because I used an old Gallery 1.x back-up to seed the albums in the Gallery 2.x installation. That copied … Continue reading

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