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 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 »

May 23rd, 2008 at 11:19 am » Comments (0)

No, not a reference to the seminal track by Melle Mel and The Furious Five (not Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel, as often quoted - this was a marketing ploy ...more »

May 3rd, 2008 at 11:50 am » Comments (2)

I have seen these for sale before, as well as MP3s of the isolated sound of the horn, but this video shows what happens when you put said train horns ...more »

May 1st, 2008 at 1:31 pm » Comments (2)

The next time I complain about Kazakh drivers not stopping for you on zebra crossings, or the way cars are driven when a pedestrian is on the road for some ...more »

April 26th, 2008 at 2:04 pm » Comments (0)

This is an arm wrestling arcade machine. The idea is simple, and definitely existed in English fair grounds for a long time. Put your money in the slot, and then ...more »

April 19th, 2008 at 12:12 pm » Comments (0)

ChrisK came over this week, and when I had to edit some settings on my PC, I was reminded that I had not yet posted on a potential solution to ...more »

April 15th, 2008 at 6:49 pm » Comments (0)

OK, so it is 15th April, and quite a few weeks ago, all the snow and ice had already melted in this town. By last week, temperatures had recently just ...more »

April 15th, 2008 at 6:45 pm » Comments (0)

OK, their pizzas were so delicious, we gave them three tries, but sadly, problems persisted. Positive points? They deliver, which is quite unusual here in Astana. The pizzas are delicious Negative points? ...more »

April 11th, 2008 at 11:58 pm » Comments (0)

Just came across a post on 101 Common Sense Rules for business managers. Whilst people may argue that different parts of the world have different cultures, and that businesses therefore ...more »

March 13th, 2008 at 7:16 pm » Comments (1)

Check out the Up Late post for the last animation I posted from the same artist. This one involves the same cat trying to get in through a door. I'm definitely ...more »

March 1st, 2008 at 5:04 pm » Comments (0)

This week I started giving computing lessons to a colleague of Walton. She came round with her laptop, and we are going through basic skills, as well as how to ...more »

February 27th, 2008 at 3:10 pm » Comments (2)

I meant to post about this a while back, but as you may have already guessed from the title, the WordPress software that this blog is based on is now ...more »

February 21st, 2008 at 1:23 pm » Comments (0)

For our upcoming trip to Britain and Amsterdam, we ended up finding the cheapest deal was to buy tickets from two separate suppliers (travel o city and ex pedia (without ...more »

February 20th, 2008 at 6:44 pm » Comments (0)

Almost all the details are now sorted... We have bought the plane tickets, paid a deposit on the Apartment, now we just need to sort out a pet-sitter again. Either ...more »

February 16th, 2008 at 3:34 pm » Comments (0)

Just a little further up Sary Arka (the street we live on) from 'Mega', the shopping centre that opened up a few months ago, we now have another one. This ...more »

February 13th, 2008 at 10:43 am » Comments (0)

Irina found a pizza place that delivered, so we treated ourselves to a film and pizza last night. A little pricey (1 litre of coke/fanta cost 800 tenge (about quadruple ...more »

February 13th, 2008 at 9:44 am » Comments (0)

Quick explanation for those of you who thought I had given up on posting here, or had no internet access - I am currently still deep in the process of ...more »

February 7th, 2008 at 4:12 am » Comments (0)

Whilst researching something, I came across this Wiki on Astana. I've made a couple of suggested amendments on the discussion page, and added a few new entries to some empty ...more »

January 31st, 2008 at 12:25 pm » Comments (1)

Today is my wife's birthday. She is at work right now, but we are planning to finally visit a restaurant with some friends tonight (we have talked about checking it ...more »