August 26th, 2008 at 2:06 am » Comments (3)

Happy Birthday Chris, hope you have a great time, don't break either of your ankles again :) more »

August 20th, 2008 at 1:58 am » Comments (1)

Today is his birthday, so assuming he is in this fair city, I am sure we will be celebrating this occasion by having afternoon tea and perhaps going to a ...more »

August 9th, 2008 at 1:44 am » Comments (0)

Well, I don't which 21st this is (lets be polite, and suggest perhaps the fourth?), but in any case, Happy Birthday from me and Ira. more »

July 26th, 2008 at 2:50 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="attachment_2284" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Happy Birthday Pippa"][/caption] I hope you manage to get away to Amsterdam soon, and look forward to getting utterly pissed with you meeting up again some time. more »

July 26th, 2008 at 2:43 pm » Comments (0)

... birthdays, it would appear, as today is both Dana's and Natalya K's. Hope you are both having a great time in your respective cities, and that we will get ...more »

July 23rd, 2008 at 5:36 am » Comments (0)

Following on from the last post, I have recently got around to re-adding most of my favourite RSS feeds, following the last hard drive failure. So, check these out sometime ...more »

July 18th, 2008 at 9:46 pm » Comments (0)

I have just heard from Irina that we are going camping again this weekend :) This is the video I previously posted, recorded in 2006 when we first arrived in Kazakhstan. ...more »

July 14th, 2008 at 1:40 am » Comments (0)

This time it is Ramon's birthday. We hope you are having fun playing with some rich lady's pipes. (He is a plumber, not a gigolo, I hasten to add ;) ...more »

July 13th, 2008 at 1:38 am » Comments (0)

Today is both Balzhan's and Javier Eppen's birthday, so a big congratulations to both of them. To newcomers to this blog, Balzhan is a friend here in Astana, whilst Javier ...more »

July 10th, 2008 at 3:05 am » Comments (0)

Am the only person who would misinterpret the journalist's story, when reading that headline? Although the article itself has the word elected inserted between Bury and Mayor, the RSS feed ...more »

July 4th, 2008 at 11:45 pm » Comments (0)

Natalya Kim arrived on the train this evening. We saw some photos of her baby. Except she isn't a baby anymore, she is a proper, fully formed little girl. Awwwwwwww. ...more »

July 4th, 2008 at 3:39 am » Comments (0)

Natalya (as in Ms. Kim, rather than the Dr. Natalya that gets mentioned more often on this site) should be arriving later today (Friday). We've not seen her in a ...more »

July 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 am » Comments (0)

Last night (well, a couple of hours ago) was the first night of celebrations. The reason? This city's (Astana) birthday as being the capital of Kazakhstan. Also, the president has ...more »

June 21st, 2008 at 10:13 pm » Comments (4)

Just a quick post from the in-laws for now, but last night Ira and I went out to the Queen's Birthday Party, organised by the British (! (/sarcasm)) Embassy, then ...more »

June 19th, 2008 at 12:44 am » Comments (0)

If all goes to plan, then this evening I'll be enjoying some proper British sausages with ChrisK and Dave. Unless they get called away to last minute meetings, then I'll ...more »

June 14th, 2008 at 6:09 pm » Comments (0)

Sorry, it looks like I just e-mailed everyone in my Contacts list to join StumbleUpon accidentally. I was attempting to see who had already joined, and link up with them. more »

June 11th, 2008 at 2:59 am » Comments (2)

OK, so I definitely need to clear some time in the next week or two, and try to catch up with a lot of posts (and photo editing) on this ...more »

June 4th, 2008 at 4:22 am » Comments (0)

Head on over to Alex's blog (Dryadmusings DOT com) for more details, but it looks as though she will not be able to make it Britain this year unfortunately. Despite ...more »

May 22nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm » Comments (0)

Just in case you have not come across this well publicized report already, head on over to the BBC's article detailing how an Australian man was caught by the police ...more »

April 20th, 2008 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

If all has gone to plan, today Ira and I are in Amsterdam, celebrating my 29th birthday. Or should that be 30th - the day you turn 1 year old, ...more »