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Postings related to this site or just news meant for our family

Ruth’s new websites

Recently Ruth asked me to set up a new website for her and some other textile artists who she has met. So I set up Use Your Eyes for them. Ruth was quite taken with the design, and decided she wanted her own blog Sew2Speak changing to use a similar skin, which is what I [...]

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Brise Soliel

We went to Xàtiva a couple of weeks ago to pick up the deeds for the plot we have bought, and to see a second architect. The guy we initially met made an offer for doing the design which was 50% over the usual rate, and was unable to explain why. Our (excellent) lawyer in [...]

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Running out of space for the snow

It has been snowing since last Wednesday. And we and the neighbours are starting to run out of places to put the snow we’ve cleared.
Since I took these pictures, it has continued to snow, and snow is forecast to continue until at least next Wednesday. One of the neighbours set off in his [...]

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The Spanish Land Registry online

We have received the results of the land registry checks that our abogado (lawyer) in Spain has made on the plot we want to buy. I am impressed. The time to get the information was less than a week, and the land registry for the whole of Spain is on-line, with basic information available [...]

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A place in Spain

At the beginning of this year, the company I work for took over a smaller competitor. Some months later (surprise, surprise) cost cutting measures were announced, which included an offer allowing early retirement. After some thought Ruth and I decided it was an offer too good to pass up, and I signed up. So I [...]

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Good tool for documenting ideas

I’ve mentioned before, that we both use mind maps – they are a great way of sorting out ideas for a presentation or sorting out what work needs to be done in a project, before you get as far as producing a project plan.
Recently I have been looking for a tool which would allow [...]

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Breakfast time

Not only birds appreciate our bird-feeder!

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Crisis? What crisis?

Ruth unloading her summer tires
Ruth ordered her Honda Civic on July 5th, 2008. It was finally delivered yesterday evening.
Time to deliver: 231 days or 7 months and 16 days. Difficult to understand that Honda has just closed their factory in the UK, where Ruth’s Civic was manufactured, for four months, when the delivery time [...]

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Gravators

You may have wondered why, when you comment on some blogs these days, you have a little symbol like the one to the left, displayed with your comment. It is because many blogs allow people to define a gravator (globally recognized avatar), which identifies them when they write a comment. The gravator can be a [...]

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Microsoft Internet Explorer

I have changed the template used for this site over the last week. And I have decided that I have spent enough of my life fiddling around with all sorts of hacks to fix the appearance of sites I have produced so that they appear correctly in Microsoft’s web browser.
All versions of Internet Explorer [...]

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