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  • Marvellous

    I’ve been marvelling at myself recently, marvelling at the skills I have now that I simply didn’t have four or five years ago. Last night, for example, I sliced up some home-smoked salmon with which to make some smoked salmon, dill-cream lasagnes (long story about how I got to the point of making salmon lasagne…

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  • No kissing before the age of 27. At least. Scarlett has been warned and seems to have taken my orders on board – she spent a lot of time screaming at Rémi last weekend when we visited Delphine’s cousin Julie and her partner Laurent at her (Julie’s) mother’s house in Sauve. Rémis is now six…

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  • Kids. Leave them alone for five minutes with your computer and this is what they do to it… I was actually swapping in a new HD for my Macbook Pro, a 320 GB monster to replace the titchy 200 GB  item with which it was supplied. I did this by buying a Western Digital external…

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  • Some sad news

    Those who’ve been around here since the start will remember Anne Weale. She first contacted me when Dr Keyboard launched in The Times and was one of the very first testers of this site back in 1996. I’ve just learned that she passed away last October – I was looking up her e-mail address to…

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  • OK, this is a large-ish film, over 20MB; one for the grand-parents only, perhaps. Scarlett screams at bathtime

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  • Film at 11

    fashion-scarlett

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  • We’ve been home for 10 days now and are gradually settling into life as a ménage à trois. Scarlett slept through the first few nights, a solid 10 hours and we were happily congratulating ourselves on our excellent parenting whilst joking that things couldn’t go on much longer this way. The chuckling experienced parents in…

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  • Lots of people have asked me this; this article repeats what I’ve said to them in the past.

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  • Scarlett

    Baby Scarlett Roseline Eliane Rousée Ward, born at 1400 on May 1 2008 in the Urbain V clinic in Avignon, France. 3.370 kilos, 51 cms. Mother and daughter are both very well and dad is completely knackered. Blimey, I called myself ‘Dad’. Merde. http://www.flickr.com/photos/13498074@N03 Delphine and Scarlett are in the clinic until Monday/Tuesday next week.…

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