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Sat 31 Dec 05 New Year's Eve at Painthorpe Country Club (14 images) New Year's Eve at Painthorpe House Golf & Country Club, where we went for a drink and to see in the new year. We don't brush up too bad do we
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Sat 31 Dec 05 New Year's Eve (21 images) Tons of Mex food, tons of cheese, lots of port, and a game of Trivial Pursuit which Joel kept falling asleep through.
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Wed 28 Dec 05 Crunching In The Wrenthorpe Snow (25 images) Snow at last! Ellie insisted on going outside and playing football in the snow; Ben was a little less keen but still had fun.
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Mon 26 Dec 05 Boxing Day (21 images) Nicky's family came round and dressed up as pirates (not a lot you can say to that, really).
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Sun 25 Dec 05 Christmas Day at Wrenthorpe (41 images) Christmas at the Wrenthorpe house: up at 5am for Ben, 6am for Ellie, but Nicky managed to keep them upstairs until 7:30am before giving up and the carnage began. Features a remote-control Dalek terrorising Ellie, among other things.
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Fri 23 Dec 05 Fotopic Office Lunchtime Abscond (18 images) There's a nice Italian restaurant called Valentino's around the corner from the office - when the final parcels had been sent, we went round to celebrate the fact with some good munchies. Oh, and Google sent us a nice Christmas prezzie with lots of Google-branded USB goodies.
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Wed 21 Dec 05 Some Motion Photos from London (12 images) A drunken half an hour in Holborn (London) with the 10D and a small tripod yielded some nice traffic motion-blur images. Most are taken at 100ISO with exposure times of 1s and 2s.
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Sat 17 Dec 05 Christmas Shopping, and Laura Walker's 21st Birthday (22 images) Kieran's sister Laura turned 21, and there was a bit of a family 'do' at the Masonic hall in Dewsbury. Ellie and Ben charged around, ate lots of things which weren't very good for them, and looked general 'cute'. But before all this, we tried to do some Christmas shopping in Leeds and Wakefield...
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Wed 14 Dec 05 Ellie's Nativity Play (3 images) Our daughter's first Nativity play - she was an angel telling the shepherds about the baby in the manger. Although to be honest, it was less a nativity and more watching the playleaders try and herd cats
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Sun 11 Dec 05 Catering for 11 for Sunday Lunch, and Putting Up The Christmas Decorations (44 images) A horrendous hangover was mended by a huge joint of beef and some lamb, and we managed to fit 11 people around our table! Then in the evening we put up the Christmas decorations and trimmed the tree.
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Sat 10 Dec 05 Fotopic Staff Christmas Party, Mex (83 images) Lots of Mexican food, Nick drinking jugs of strange cocktails, a lot of hats, and sooB the bandido.
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Tue 6 Dec 05 There's A Hole In My Ceiling (5 images) Hot water tank has been dripping. Felt a drip on my head while making the kids' sandwiches, looked up, touched the ceiling and it sorta crumbled. Not happy.
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Mon 5 Dec 05 Nicky's Free Bath Set from Viking Direct (4 images) Honestly, it's quite easy to get Nicky to buy office supplies - simply use bribery.
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Sat 3 Dec 05 Sunday Lunch at Calder Island (8 images) Nicky was in the office, so the remaining family went out for lunch.
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Sat 3 Dec 05 Long-lapse Shots on Wrenthorpe Road (8 images) Waiting for the bus, trying out some long-lapse stuff on the Powershot, balancing the camera on a wall. Didn't come out *too* bad
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Sat 3 Dec 05 St Anne's Christmas Fayre, Wrenthorpe (4 images) Nicky was helping out on the toy stall, Ellie made a Christmas angel, and Ben had a bun. Yum!
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Fri 2 Dec 05 Christmas Hits The Workshop (10 images) Stress stress - Christmas is here, Nicky's working in the workshop until all hours, but it's a laugh innit (and hardly unexpected, it seems to have gone a bit mad round here this year).
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Mon 28 Nov 05 My Steak-fu Is Strong, Old Man! (2 images) Learning to cook steak the Gordon Ramsay way.
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Sun 27 Nov 05 Sunday at Home (4 images) Trying out the brownies I'd made the night before, and cooking a decent lunch.
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Fri 25 Nov 05 Sushi at Yo! in Leeds (5 images) We'd wanted to try out the new Yo!Sushi in Leeds for a while - it's at the top of Harvey Nichols in the Victoria Quarter, and thus we ended up there for a Fotopic staff lunch.
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Sun 20 Nov 05 Random Bits from the Powershot S50 (6 images) Some more office pics, some odds and ends including a sunrise over Wrenthorpe taken from my home office window, and an alarm called Chuff.
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Wed 16 Nov 05 Quick Beer in London (13 images) I had a couple of hours before a train and ended up in a pub in Covent Garden.
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Tue 15 Nov 05 Dusk in Docklands (3 images) Some long-lapse shots after maintenance on the Fotopic server arrays.
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Sat 12 Nov 05 Making a Photo Collage (5 images) We made one of these years ago, but we had quite a few test prints kicking around from our new lab so put them to good use
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Fri 11 Nov 05 Stuff From The Office (7 images) Hard at work again - Christmas is here.
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Sun 6 Nov 05 Sunday Lunch at the Black Bull, Wakefield (8 images) |
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Sat 5 Nov 05 Bonfire Night at Thornes Park, Wakefield (8 images) Time for our annual trip to watch the fireworks - this year accompanied by Mum Wade. Ellie did her usual trick of hiding in the pushchair, but Ben absolutely loved it yelling 'bang!' and 'pretty!' at almost all the fireworks (I guess he finally found something louder than him!).
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Fri 4 Nov 05 Magnetic Jigsaws and Other Animals (7 images) We were going to stock magnetic jigsaws, and then we found out that we actually had the only one in existence thanks to a supplier issue. Pity really.
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Sun 30 Oct 05 A Brief Visit to Thorne (5 images) We went to visit Grandma and Grandad Meese, and saw Aunt Winnie into the bargain - and she had a bit of a play with Ben.
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Sat 29 Oct 05 Dave's 50th Birthday Party (26 images) Family friend David is 50, trouble being that there was lots of wine so we felt we all had to lend a hand drinking it. The kids met Molly, one of our cousins, and played lots too.
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