Pet Pixels - Personal

Partied out

marcus@bointon.com (Marcus Bointon) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:41:00 +0100

Last night was my sister's 10th wedding anniversary party at the RAF club on Piccadilly, followed by even more drinks at Floridita's in Soho. Got home about 2, felt extremely rough this morning, then had to face a 4th birthday party, which was actually quite entertaining! Congrats to Becca & Ander, and best of luck for the next 10!

Transatlantic Mum

marcus@bointon.com (Marcus Bointon) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:30:00 +0100

My Mum (and of course Ian, Roger, Curtis & Hannah) has this afternoon succesfully completed a transatlantic crossing in her boat, Elemiah. That's quite an achievement. It took them three weeks, including about 5 days with no wind which they had to motor for. Three cheers for Elemiah!

Hopefully I'll get a chance to take Zoë on a weekend hop down the Med over then next month or two.

And they're off...

marcus@bointon.com (Marcus Bointon) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:44:00 +0100

My Mum has set off on her transatlantic crossing from Nova Scotia. Their progress should have been reported continuously via blog postings through their Iridium satellite phone, but they could not get the (serial!) modem working in time. For some reason text messages sent through the Iridium web site don't seem to work either. I have a feeling that Motorola is involved with Iridium, which probably explains why it doesn't seem to work properly...

Hot stuff

marcus@bointon.com (Marcus Bointon) — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:14:19 +0100

Just a little break from the techie stuff. I really like Tabasco Chipotle smoked jalapeño pepper sauce. I realised that I was getting near to the end of a bottle and it occurred to me that that meant that I'd got through SIX 148ml bottles in the last year! Definitely an addict. Maybe I should invest in one of these: unless someone feels like importing one for me one since they don't seem to be available in the UK.

Who's the Daddy?

marcus@bointon.com (Marcus Bointon) — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:32:00 +0100

I'm very happy to announce the birth of my son, Luc Bramwell Bointon, this morning at 5:32am. He weighed 3.8Kg (that's about 8lb6oz in old money). Delivery was natural and not too traumatic (especially for me!).

Now I get to say "Luc, I am your father!"

Cyprus

marcus@bointon.com (Marcus Bointon) — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:00:00 +0100

Back from 3 weeks in Cyprus. Excellent stuff. Some some very disappointing world cup football, but lots of lovely sunshine and sea. I went water skiing for the first time in about 18 years and found that it's like riding a bike (well, not really), but it all comes back pretty quickly and I didn't have any trouble staying up on a mono. Mind you, my arms and shoulders were aching for a week afterwards!
Did a couple of dives too - saw the most amazing thermocline - like watching oil and water mixed, with a shimmery reflection off the interface 20m down!
Z had a great time - sorted out potty training (hooray!) and she can swim pretty well now.

Evacuated!

marcus@bointon.com (Marcus Bointon) — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:26:00 +0100

I was bringing Zoë back from Nursery at about 6:40 last night when I noticed some smoke coming from behind the buildings on our road. It turned out to be quite a large fire in some garages and quite a few people were watching what was happening. A couple of minutes later the fire brigade arrived and the access road was quickly shut off. I went indoors and found I got quite a good view from a bedroom window, so I took a few pictures. A few minutes later there was quite a big explosion with a fireball about 30m high.
After half an hour or so, the police asked us to evacuate, so we went out for dinner. It was still all cordoned off when we came back, so we stayed at a friends place.

Dinner

marcus@bointon.com (Marcus Bointon) — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:00:00 +0000

Fantastic dinner party this eve, supposedly to review all our skiing photos - Paul, Marlene, Fraser, a very tired Adam, Sandeep & Pam, Mummy & Ian, and of course Henna and Charlotte. Sarah cooked 2 huge legs of lamb, a gratin Dauphinois, and chilli green beans. I made a giant Jaffa cake. We polished off a fair few bottles too, in particular the two Crozes Hermitage Di bought us, which were just wonderful.
I made pancakes in the morning, which went down well. Tea at the Horniman museum (after looking at the rabbits, goats and chickens of course) rounded out a very enjoyable weekend.
Should probably have done some more work on the hallway though.