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Sydney Cricket Ground after the Big Bash

Here we have two boys at the end of October 2016. MIGO is dressed for his tennis lesson and JFGP is dressed for hanging around the house playing video games.

Has it really been over a year? I’m not keeping up with that photo a month publishing schedule I set myself. I will try and do better in future. Here we have two boys between their birthdays in July 2016. JFGP has just turned 13 and MIGO will be 11 in a few days. You can see them getting steadily bigger at the gallery here.

It was thirteen years ago today that we were married. Thank you my love.

Author : Charles Stross Title: The Annihilation Score This book was released in the civilised parts of the world last Thursday. I appear to have read it in five days. Which given that I’m averaging four to five books a year at the moment is something of a speed read for me. Unsurprisingly I rather liked it. I don’t think I’ve read a novel by Charlie Stross that I haven’t liked. Some of his older hard science fiction books have not been exactly to my taste, but I think that’s more a review of me than the books. The Laundry Files and the Merchant Princes books have been great. The major reason I enjoy them is his obvious subversion of different genres and cultural stereotypes. It usually takes me a while to get them, again a reflection on the reader, but the moment when I worked out his twist of the James Bond stories in The Jennifer Morgue was worth the price of entry alone.

Because apparently every blog needs it’s fair share of cat pictures. This is the latest edition to our household soon after he arrived in October last year.

I have been just a little bit slack. I am trying to make amends by clearing up my photo library and posting what little backlog of growing boys photos that I have managed to take. Here are our subjects from December 2014.

Let’s just pretend that not much happened in the first half of 2015. Following swiftly on from the end of 2014 here are the boys in June 2015.

Hopefully one day I’ll be able to write down what Sir Terry Pratchett’s books have meant to me. From Good Omens through the whole Discworld. Until then I’ll go with this quote; “If you trust in yourself. . . and believe in your dreams. . . and follow your star. . . you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”

On Saturday we took the ankle biters to the concert hall at the Opera House to see the Sydney Symphony perform with one of our favourite ivory ticklers. Mr Folds and his ‘band’ did a great job of entertaining us and a wonderful time was had by all.

I’m trying to write a new blog post but am a little stuck for inspiration. As usual for us techno types I have taken refuge in fiddling under the bonnet of the site. I refreshed all of the growing posts and photographs the other day and then I upgraded the underlying software to WordPress 4.0. Then I was on a roll so I installed the Jetpack plugin. This allows me to write posts in Markdown and that is what prompted this post. Not that you can tell but I’m writing this in a nice easy to use format that translates well to the web.

I have been very remiss. Checking back through the archives I see that I haven’t posted a growing photograph since September last year. When I checked back through my photo library I have only taken one decent photo since that last post. That was in April 2014 and is shown above. I’m off to charge my camera batteries and try and do better in the future.

In a half-hearted attempt to catch up here is a picture of our subjects taken quite recently. As you can see JFGP has decided that since he lives by the beach he needs a surfer’s hair cut. On our trip to the UK in July most of the extended family disagreed and said that he needed a trim. MIGO, meanwhile, is laughing at my excellent joke.

If this wine was a person it would be able to drink itself.

I took this walking down West Esplanade this morning.

No MIGO, we can’t fit that in our luggage for the flight home.

I drink Stella.