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 »

August 16th, 2007 at 2:24 am » Comments (2)

OK, as promised, here we have the very first photos of Dasha's kitten. She actually weighs in at 110 grams, not the 107 I quoted earlier. The video is going ...more »

August 16th, 2007 at 1:06 am » Comments (0)

Last weekend Ira's Aunt Sveta and her grand daughter Sasha came over to celebrate Ira's Mum's birthday. On the Saturday morning, as we were all in the car sorting out ...more »

August 10th, 2007 at 6:25 am » Comments (4)

So it is a big HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to Irina. Back in 2001, we were both here in Astana, getting ready for the big day. I managed to achieve my bi-annual ...more »

August 4th, 2007 at 11:38 pm » Comments (2)

Well, with what was a complete (but pleasant) shock for us, well me at least, the A/C guys arrived almost on time, and proceeded to fit both the internal and ...more »

August 4th, 2007 at 11:52 am » Comments (0)

Woke up this morning, and when we looked out the window, we saw something going on, over at the entrance to Astana park. There were a lot of old Kazakh buses, ...more »

August 2nd, 2007 at 5:31 am » Comments (1)

Irina's dad is currently in hospital, taking some tests to try and discover what his illness is being caused by. I wish him a speedy conclusion to the tests, and ...more »

July 25th, 2007 at 9:58 pm » Comments (0)

Many thanks to Irina for spotting the following pictures covering the ongoing problems in Gloucestershire with the recent flooding. more »

July 23rd, 2007 at 2:52 am » Comments (0)

We (Me, Irina, Balzhan, Ildar (Balzhan's son), Dr. Natalya, Sveta (Dr. Natalya's daughter)) all went out Saturday evening to celebrate Balzhan's birthday, and also because we had not all been ...more »

July 23rd, 2007 at 1:25 am » Comments (0)

Well, I've now heard back from all the family, and everyone is OK. Dad's house is OK, but the town itself (Evesham) was quite badly hit, and his car got pretty ...more »

July 21st, 2007 at 1:48 am » Comments (0)

Bayan went over to England, or Manchester to be more precise for a few months. She hopes to go over there to earn her Masters degree, and needed to complete ...more »

July 13th, 2007 at 10:08 pm » Comments (0)

The past couple of weeks have seen temperatures around 30-35 degrees, occasionally reaching for 40. I just spoke to Dad who said Britain has had pretty miserable weather, or Evesham ...more »

July 13th, 2007 at 4:23 am » Comments (0)

The title pretty much says it all.... Despite having a scratching post, a nice scratch board that was originally infused with some cat nip or something similar, Karra and Muska both ...more »

July 13th, 2007 at 12:50 am » Comments (0)

In some locations, I have no problem at all with street art that is well made. Obviously, random sprawling tags, layered on top of each other on the wall of ...more »

July 12th, 2007 at 4:59 am » Comments (3)

OK, we have finally reached the end of the photos with this following shot... I believe this was taken the day Alex arrived, after her little hiccup in Kaliningrad airport. If ...more »

July 12th, 2007 at 1:37 am » Comments (0)

Here we have a photo on a hot day, with Alex in front of a fountain. It was definitely nice to cool off your feet in the water. We tried ...more »

July 11th, 2007 at 9:46 pm » Comments (0)

Just noticed I appear to be posting these pictures in reverse order - the earlier posts have the most recent piccies, and this post has photos from towards the beginning ...more »