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Hello, everyone.
I’m going dark here on the blog for a couple of weeks. I have a backlog of things I want to write on, but Henley Royal Regatta is coming up and my entire non-work focus is dedicated to that. The photo above is a IV, but I’ll be racing in an VIII.
Wish […]

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I’ve been meaning to post about this for a while, and finally have gotten around to downloading the photos. (My wife’s photos; she’s the photographer in the family.)
Thames Rowing Club spent just over a week in Temple-sur-Lot, France, which is about a 90-minute drive southeast of Bordeaux. The area is apparently well known […]

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Friday, April 18th was a very sad day for us; we had to put our lovely cat Penny to sleep.

We originally got Penny a year and a half ago, after we’d been living in our flat for about a year. We needed a totally indoor cat, as we didn’t have any easy outdoor space […]

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The UK “Workout after Work” Day is celebrated on the Monday evening after shifting to Daylight Savings Time. Here in the UK, that day was today.
As expected, thousands of people that likely haven’t done any real working out in the past few months went running, cycling, walking or managed a similar workout this evening. […]

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We’ve moved! Don’t worry, you don’t need to update your addressbooks for us. We just moved from the first-floor flat to the ground-floor flat. It seems a little unnecessary, but we now have access to a garden!
It was great to do it over a four day weekend (Friday and Monday are UK […]

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So this last weekend I was finally able to race in the Head of the River Race; only my second time in four years. (2007 was cancelled because of absolute s**t water conditions, and in 2006 I was diagnosed with a broken rib just a few days before the race.)
Considering that we only had […]

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is spending the entire weekend seat racing, only to find that the lift at work is broken down, thus needing to walk up and down six flights of stairs to get in or out of the office. Fun…
And my hands are still torn up. (At least they’ve stopped feeling like someone has been […]

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Step 1 - Stare curiously at the couch, trying to figure out if it’s moving because the neighbor downstairs is doing something strange.
Step 2 - Realise that it’s rather late at night, so neither your neighbor downstairs nor the empty flat next door is responsible.
Step 3 - Remember that it feels strangely like an earthquake […]

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