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  • Finally!

    I have always been a little underwhelmed by Italian food. When I was 19, I spent a week here, and all I wanted was a big tasty pasta. I never got it. On this trip, there has been a lot of very good food, including risotto, pizza, and Jim’s sensational chicken cacciatore. But I still…

  • Pisa Party

    Last night I wrote about our Pizza Party (although I fear the dodgy wifi prevented it from posting). If you missed it, you can read all about it HERE. Today is the day of Charles’ wedding, a very old school friend of mine. He was one of just three people I went to school more…

  • Pizza Party

    They have a poor reputation, largely due to memories of out of touch executives trying to motivate the troops with a few slices of lukewarm dough. However, for a chance to get together the day before a wedding, it’s a great and easy mixer. Especially in Italy.

  • Foreign Technology

    I was reading an essay by Noah Smith, an American blogger and economist, about a long held memory he had of watching a documentary set on a remote island. The locals were explaining to the host what they got up to on the island; fishing, building shelter, hunting with spears, tending the fire. It was…

  • Getting out of here alive

    We flew into Florence today, ready to spend a week or so in Italy before our friend’s wedding. Tuscany is a beautiful part of the world. The hardest part of the journey hasn’t been from our accom to the airport (seamless, thanks to the public holiday induced traffic absence), boarding our plane (London City truly…

  • A sequence of events

    Today will be a series of vignettes throughout the day, as my friend Joseph and I go to see Crystal Palace take on Nottingham Forest at Selhurst Park. 11:51: boarded the ThamesLink train at Kings Cross (Aka St Pancreas in our household) en route to East Croydon. The weather is beautiful, there are a few…

  • Fair enough

    One of my favourite Paul Graham (founder of YC) quotes is “in February, you wonder why ANYONE would live in London. In June, you wonder why anyone would live anywhere else”. While it’s not June, it is a beautiful time to be in the English capital for a long weekend.

  • Rough start

    Ky and I are about to begin our summer vacation. It’s something we have been quite looking forward to, but are slightly daunted by the long flight ahead. 9 hours is a long journey, especially with an infant. It turns out that the flight was the least of our worries, as 20 minutes into our…

  • Sad goodbyes

    After two wonderful months, Occi’s grandparents, Kim and Graham, have flown back to New Zealand. They have been a godsend. It certainly wasn’t a holiday for them. With Ky back at work, they were on full time Occi duty. This meant trips to the library, swimming lessons, music lessons, and most of all, time spent…

  • We’re back!

    People love to complain about their telecom provider. Who wouldn’t? After all, you don’t think about them 99% of the time, and then 1% of the time, either due to poor connection, an unexpected bill, or an outage, it is all consuming. As readers of this series will know, yesterday our internet went out. Today,…