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International Fest

admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:27:46 +0000

Today was International Fest day at school. The annual fund raising event with all the different nationalities all having a stall to sell things, goods, food etc from their country. Packed again, nice Belgian beer on sale for a change, plenty of food from all over the place and live music. Which is where Tom […]

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Tom playing Piano at school concert

admin — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:40:31 +0000

We all went to whats called ‘Tanzania Night’ at the school last night. It’s an event held annually to raise money for Tanzania schools that the school here has been doing for 20 years. Many of the students make groups, perform dances, sing etc and we all drink, eat and watch. So, Tom played piano […]

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Angermund

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:42:50 +0000

Short post this one. Lovely Autumn day today, cold, sunny and a heavy mist this morning when I got up. So having taken the kids to school I got home, picked up my camera and Annie (the dog) and I went off into the woods. A nice stroll, steadily getting cold hands and stopped every […]

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Photography

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:52:22 +0000

A while ago I bought myself what’s known as the ‘nifty fifty’. A 50mm 1.8 prime lens for my camera. No zoom, you ‘zoom with your feet’. Bought it because it was not only cheap, but, very very good in low light so no flash needed, great for street shots, fantastic narrow depth of field […]

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Snow – Again

admin — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:11:05 +0000

Seems like most of the UK it never stops snowing at present. Snowed about 15cm a few weeks ago, topped up daily and then went over a couple of days before reappearing with a vengeance 2 days ago. Snowed every day since. But, like most of Germany they seem to just get on with things. […]

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Bottrop

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:02:13 +0000

Kids were off school so we took a day to go and see a few things we had spotted whilst out and about. In particular, on top of this hill we could see what looked like a metal pyramid. Found more about it on the internet, and it’s known as the Tetraeder, and is made […]

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Düsseldorf

admin — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:46:57 +0000

Decided to take a trip into Düsseldorf to take some photos of some of the popular landmark building there. Didn’t stay too long but had a little potter around the media harbour and took some shots of the Gehry Building, below. Funky looking, cladded with very shiny aluminium I guess. Can’t seem to figure out […]

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