Archive for February, 2005
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
Possible Names
Mike has kindly provided us with a list of names – all I have to do now is write a program to randomly pick some combinations I am willing to start a book on the most unlikely combination – any takers?
http://www.bounty.com/Baby_Names/top100boynames_1.asp
http://www.bounty.com/Baby_Names/top100girlnames_1.asp
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
Awayday
We’ve just got back from a weekend away – trying to make the best of our “free” time whilst we have some. It is also an excuse to get away from the house, given that it is pretty dusty with the work going on. We drove down to near Battle, as stayed at [...]
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
Scaffold
Well, Fi hasn’t posted anything here, so I guess I have free rein to chat away as I please! It’s only 8 weeks to go, so of course we have decided to get the builders in. We have a high double height hallway above the upstairs landing, with a central rooflight. This [...]
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Saturday, February 5th, 2005
House of the Future
Well, this site is inspired by our good friends Mike & Susie, who took the techno-plunge, and now document most of the activities of their son Alex on Mike’s website.
Actually, most of it is about Mike’s “House of the Future”, as Microsoft would hype it. But there is a small subsection on Alex, [...]
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Saturday, February 5th, 2005
Ganesh
This is a carving of Ganesh, the Elephant God. These guys take a pretty big luck of granite, and create these impressive statues, mostly for export to the west.
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Saturday, February 5th, 2005
Mamallapuram
This rock is sited in a town named Mamallapuram, about 50 miles south of Chennai. According to the local guide, the Mughal Emperor tried to move it using several elephants, but was unable to budge it.
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Saturday, February 5th, 2005
San Thome Cathedral
This is San Thome Cathedral in Chennai. It is named after doubting Thomas, who travelled to India after the death of Christ. Some part of his is still supposed to rest in the crypt of the cathedral.