Review of the Week – 2 to 8 January 2012
That Was The Week That Was So here we are at the end of the first full week of 2012. This Review of the Week idea is to become a weekly feature, incorporating but...
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Epiphany – 6 January 2010
Friends, today is Epiphany, a day which commemorates the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the presence of the Magi. It is the last of the 12 days of Christmas, and consequently –...
Christmas Lights Progress So Far – 18 December 2010
00:12, Saturday 18 December 2010 With just hours left until the start of our Christmas Lights Open House weekend, final preparations have been underway. Our Christmas Tree has finally come in from the garden,...
Christmas Lights Progress So Far – 17 December 2010
Did a blog earlier today/last night explaining how the Lights themselves are now ready. Having broken up from school on a half-day, I am now starting to decorate my room – traditionally set out...
Christmas Lights Progress So Far – 17 December 2010
It’s 02:18am on Friday, 17 December 2010. Tomorrow is our ‘open house’ event where we are throwing open our doors to our neighbours and friends. Dad spent last night in ‘the recording studio’ using...
Christmas Lights Progress So Far – 2 December 2010
Here’s some of the latest photos as the Christmas Lights 2010 go up: Handiwork: Dad ties paper stars together on a piece of cotton, to be suspended above audience’s heads as the watch. He...
Christmas Lights Progress So Far – 22 November 2010
Here we go, regular readers will know from my last post that Dad was having troubles with the MS-DOS computer. Those problems are now fixed: it turned out that the screen’s florescent backlight had...
Christmas Lights Progress So Far – 20 November 2010
Tonight, Dad encountered massive problems with the computer that controls the Christmas lights – a 20-year-old, clapped-out old laptop. It wouldn’t boot and the screen had failed. This wasn’t the first time it had...
