It was the Corinthian Chamber Orchestra’s 10th anniversary concert on Saturday night. It was a great concert with a full audience. The programme was: Mozart: Magic Flute Overture Elgar: Cello Concerto Beethoven: Symphony No 5 Richard Jenkinson performed the Elgar and we played the overture from Marriage of Figaro as an encore The concert was …
Dover
We hired a car last weekend and went for a drive. We went to Ightham Mote which is a fascinating 14th-century moated manor house in a hidden valley. Apparently its seclusion saved it from Cromwell’s soldiers who, intent on looting it, lost their way and ransacked another house instead. It eluded us for a while …
Mat & Petrea's wedding
Mat and Petrea had their second wedding in Derby a couple of weeks ago. There are pictures in the gallery.
Rosie – 1992-2005
Our lovely dog Rosie died peacefully at the farm on Friday night. She had lived a happy life, her time split between the farm at Bordertown and home at Coromandel Valley. I remember when I first met her and her brother, Bluey. They were two little brown balls of fur. I don’t think the plan …
So we went to New York
We went to New York again for Kathryn’s birthday. We’d been once before and seen most of the tourist sites. For Kathryn, this meant we could dedicate the trip to shopping. Apart from spending money whenever we got the chance we also did some other cool things like visit the reopened Museum of Modern Art …
Change of address
No, we haven’t moved house but if you have visited the site recently you may have noticed you were redirected. From now on london.fornax.net will be known as frogcake.net so don’t forget to update those bookmarks. 🙂 Also, I have added an RSS feed to the site so you can be sure you’ll never miss …
End of an era
The No 19 Routemasters won’t be growling past our windows much longer. According to the London Bus Page, the last Routemaster will pull into the Battersea Garage on 1 April 2005. This is just one more in a growing list of routes that have been phasing out their Routemasters over the last year. By the …
Another new job
I’ve got a new job. Starting 21 Februrary I will be IT Manager / Web Developer for Unanimis Consulting Ltd. I’m really excited about it and I can’t wait to start. It is a combination of sysadmin stuff and web development and the office is on Tottenham Court Rd – five minutes from Uni. Andrew …
Back to school
I am starting an MSc in Computer Science on Monday at Birkbeck College, University of London. This may surprise some of you, but ever since Dad brought home a state of the art 286 (12Mhz, 20MB HDD, twin 5.25” floppies, four-colour CGA screen and one of those really solid keyboards that click when you press …
F1 London
It is the British Grand Prix this weekend at Silverstone. There are plans to bring a Monaco style GP to London and to promote this idea there was a parade of F1 cars down Regent street on Tuesday night. Working nearby and finishing at 4:15, I thought it might be cool to wander down after …