December 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 am » Comments (0)

Happy Birthday, hopefully Sasha and Sveta have been giving you a peaceful and relaxing day :) more »

December 1st, 2008 at 2:36 am » Comments (0)

Today is the day, back in the 80s, that top DJ, top mate and all round good bloke Con was born. Hope you're having a good party, surrounded by good ...more »

November 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 am » Comments (2)

Given that we were in the same year at school, it isn't too hard to guess her age, but anyway, here's hoping she is having a superb day... more »

November 17th, 2008 at 2:29 am » Comments (0)

As you may have guessed from this post's title, today is my Dad's birthday. Everyone here in Kazakhstan hopes you have a great day... The title should also give you a ...more »

November 13th, 2008 at 4:12 am » Comments (1)

I have mentioned this pub a couple of times here on the blog, but have yet to post photos or pass comment on the food. Well, lets start at the beginning. ...more »

November 11th, 2008 at 1:44 am » Comments (7)

As previously promise, here we have some slightly better quality photos of Miss Lily (which reminds me, I need to edit the previous posts, as there is only two L's ...more »

November 10th, 2008 at 3:54 am » Comments (0)

Just before he went off to Moscow and moved out of his flat, DaveG held a party round at his (partially as a flat cooling party (does that term exist?) ...more »

November 10th, 2008 at 3:18 am » Comments (4)

Yes, just 11,800 minutes, (assuming I manage to publish this post within ten minutes of starting it, that is), until our plane is due to take off and fly the ...more »

November 10th, 2008 at 2:44 am » Comments (0)

I finally got around to transferring the photos from Ira's camera onto my PC this evening. So you should expect some shots of... DaveG's party, a few cute shots of ...more »

October 28th, 2008 at 4:23 am » Comments (0)

Here we have a couple from back in June. One evening, there was the QBP (Queen's Birthday Party) celebrations at a hotel, with BG's (British Gas's) charity event immediately following ...more »

October 28th, 2008 at 3:04 am » Comments (0)

Readers of our friend Tom's blog ( http://lifeof2me.blogspot.com/ ) may have noticed that posting has slowed down a little recently. With his multiple projects (teaching, making and selling his clothing ...more »

October 24th, 2008 at 5:21 am » Comments (0)

So here we have a video I recorded from the World News Report - Business Edition from the BBC World channel. (I did try to find one officially uploaded earlier ...more »

October 18th, 2008 at 3:54 pm » Comments (0)

[EDIT] Amended time for cocktail happy hour. Thanks to Mel for the correction. I have been meaning to post about Miss Lilly, an American singer who has taken up residence in Northwind ...more »

October 16th, 2008 at 5:41 am » Comments (0)

We do not yet know for sure whether we will be able to attend yet, but with Alex's wedding approaching next year, I want to start keeping an eye out ...more »

October 15th, 2008 at 9:15 pm » Comments (0)

To friends and family back home, it looks as though the original mid-November date for moving back is now a little too optimistic. Although we would obviously like to get ...more »

October 14th, 2008 at 11:12 pm » Comments (0)

Another post for a good friend (Gavin Ng), so no $ involved :) Breaking the Barriers in Language and Distance Learning -- Armstrong-Hilton Launches WebSwami 1.0 WebSwami is an ...more »

October 14th, 2008 at 5:46 pm » Comments (0)

(NOT a sponsored post in any way - a friend helped to set up the site, so I'm happy to hand out a freebie :) ) So what is Tip'd? From ...more »

October 8th, 2008 at 1:10 am » Comments (0)

Why? For bringing the following video to my attention... I have a slight liking for a lot of a cappella songs, and anything based on Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the ...more »

September 22nd, 2008 at 11:15 pm » Comments (0)

Head on over to the Celt Photographic blog to read a series of three new posts from JohnK. Specifically, you'll need to hit the September Archives to see the latest ...more »

September 6th, 2008 at 2:22 am » Comments (0)

... for an electronic Happy Birthday. Hope your days go well. (MattG has appeared enough times in this blog for people to hopefully know he is a friend of ours ...more »