I finally got to meet Martin R's delightful family. I considered for a moment taking it over, but relented.
As I rode the bus out to Martin's summer house in the archipelago, the sun was shining brightly but during the day clouds rolled in with increasing winds and as night fell a full storm developed. I lay awake a long while, watching the wind blowing wild waves across the bay and bending the trees on the isle.
In the morning the wind had abated somewhat but sheets and veils of rain still ran across the sea. As we packed and decamped I got rather wet but now at home with my fluffy bathrobe around me and sweet peppermint tea inside me I am feeling very pleased with having braved the elements.
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Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
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- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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- Love in the Old Town
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- Veckans ord: cellofan
- Sittin' on the dock of the bay
- Let them eat cake
- Still un(der)determined
- I am easily amused
- “Nature”
- Empty in one sense
- Notes from the underground
- Veckans ord: utvickningsflicka
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- Spitfire Voices D Sarkar. Some pilots had very short careers.
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- Swift to Battle: No 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action, vol. III T Docherty. Better photos.
- Swift to Battle: No 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action, vol. II T Docherty. Disappointingly bad photos.
- Swift to Battle: No 72 Fighter Squadron RAF in Action, vol. I T Docherty. Not for the political analysis.
- Unity in Action, Third Edition: Multiplatform game development in C# J Hocking. One of those good dependable introductions.
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- IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
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- Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
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- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
6 comments:
Great having you over! I've got a fine shot of you reading to Signe, coming soon to a mailbox near you.
Thank you! Reading bed-time stories is a pleasure I've missed, as the Only-begotten Children soon decided they'd rather read on their own, so as not to be limited by when my voice gave out, but tomorrow I'll be babysitting Denephew and we will certainly read stories then. (And he has told me we'll make a Secret together and we won't tell the rest of you, nyah, nyah!)
Du pappa, jag lyssnade på godnattsagor tills jag var typ 11-12, men det var mamma som läste dem för att du inte orkade/ville/whatever! Bah! Skylla ifrån sig på det där viset!
Jag köper inte den tolkningen. Kom och gräla med mig privat istället.
Haha, det var inte alls meningen att låta arg. Nej jag tror det var för att du hade så fullt upp på jobbet, vad jag kan erinra mig. :O
Pappors dåliga samveten är inte att leka med, vet du…
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