April 9th, 2008 at 10:17 pm » Comments (1)

No, Alex hasn't decided to branch out into other forms of photo blogging in an attempt to gain male readers. Instead, I came across an Aussie who likes to create ...more »

April 2nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm » Comments (2)

My thanks to a channels.nl forum member for pointing out these... Whether any of these were truly double-barrelled surnames, or simply presented in the newspaper in the Person A Surname - ...more »

March 5th, 2008 at 4:06 pm » Comments (0)

You may remember that Oleg directed me to XKCD some time back, and I posted a few of the images. Well I took a look at the more recent strips, ...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 »

December 19th, 2007 at 5:48 am » Comments (0)

I was originally going to post a selection of the photos Irina took whilst in Britain, but realised her work colleagues might not appreciate having their faces plastered all over ...more »

December 19th, 2007 at 5:03 am » Comments (0)

As you may remember from earlier this year, I went out on a snow mobile a couple of times, with some friends of the family. Well, they bought a new ...more »

December 19th, 2007 at 4:33 am » Comments (0)

If you take a quick look at the 2nd photo, below, you would be forgiven for assuming it was taken near Hawaii or some tropical island with a history of ...more »

December 19th, 2007 at 2:40 am » Comments (3)

Whilst checking which photos I had yet to post, I came across these recent snaps of Gwen (Mum and John's puppie), and though friends might want to see them. The first ...more »

December 19th, 2007 at 1:40 am » Comments (2)

As you know, Ira and I will be travelling to Britain this Saturday, and as her parents are coming as well, we can't very well ask them to come and ...more »

October 30th, 2007 at 8:09 pm » Comments (2)

NOTE TO ANY PayPerPost REVIEWERS... This post is NOT sponsored. You can tell by the way the hyperlinked word is not at all optimized for any sort of search, and ...more »

September 13th, 2007 at 5:18 am » Comments (0)

Last Sunday we went over to Balzhan's, to celebrate Ildar's birthday, along with Dr Natalya, Sasha and Sveta. We bought him a board game that appeared to have a lot ...more »

September 7th, 2007 at 11:03 pm » Comments (0)

Last night we went to the 'English Pub' Chelsea, to celebrate Walton's birthday last Sunday. It was relatively quiet, and not much had really changed in there. The prices are ...more »

September 4th, 2007 at 11:11 pm » Comments (0)

We recently had Irina's Mum and Dad over for tea. They had not been here in a while (we do still see them once a week or so, though, normally ...more »

September 2nd, 2007 at 9:57 pm » Comments (0)

Yesterday we went to meet up with Ildar and Mum (Balzhan) to attend his first day at school. Dr Natalya and her daughter Sveta also came. Sveta is still a ...more »

August 30th, 2007 at 3:48 am » Comments (2)

These are the photos we took of Dasha and Tima last weekend, when Balzhan, Ildar, Sasha, Dr. Natalya, Sveta, Losha, Igor & his wife, as well as Asen's mum all ...more »

August 29th, 2007 at 11:35 pm » Comments (0)

As I mentioned in the previous post, we (Ira, Me, Balzhan, Ildar, Masha, Dr. Natalya, Sasha & Sveta) went out to celebrate Dr. Natalya & Sasha's new car. In the ...more »

August 26th, 2007 at 1:31 am » Comments (0)

This evening we went with Assel and Walton to the roof terrace section of the Sattay restaurant. Although you do pay a little more than some places, it wasn't quite ...more »

August 20th, 2007 at 2:57 am » Comments (2)

Ira sent me a link last week to a picture that illustrates the real reason your bed exists, at least if you own a cat. The post was up at a ...more »

August 19th, 2007 at 11:29 pm » Comments (2)

Assuming the kitten is male, it looks like he will be called Tima. He has gained grammes in three days, which sounds quite healthy to me. (I'm not an expert, ...more »

August 17th, 2007 at 8:12 pm » Comments (0)

Ira sent me a link today to some cute kitten pictures. I've included one below, as it really does look a lot like our Karra, when she was young. Now, we ...more »