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Code Retreat 2019 - This last weekend was the tenth annual Global Day(s) of Code Retreat, with over one hundred and fifty Code Retreat events running on either the 15th and 16th of November.

This last weekend was the tenth annual Global Day(s) of Code Retreat, with over one hundred and fifty Code Retreat events running on either the 15th and 16th of November. Not having been to one before it was great to find there was an event being run by Canon Medical Research at their office in Edinburgh, so I signed up to head along.

The basic idea of the Code Retreat is to look at how we as…

A review of my Friday at Code Craft Conf 2019

Last Friday was the annual CodeCraftUK conference in Glasgow. As a community organised event it’s much more reasonably priced than some of the bigger conferences, and also has a rather different structure than most of the big conferences – as they say on the conference website they put the conferback in conference, focusing instead on small group guided conversations and workshops. Since we have…

Took the Canadian relatives to #WindsorCastle

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Photo taken at: Windsor Castle

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Photo taken at: Arborfield Garrison

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Photo taken at: Kinghorn, Fife

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A rest in the cool and the silence

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Photo taken at: Parish of Finchampstead and California

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Photo taken at: Kinghorn Loch

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Photo taken at: Forth Railway Bridge

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Sunrise on the M6

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Photo taken at: Tebay Services

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Photo taken at: Great Ocean Road Memorial Arch

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Photo taken at: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Photo taken at: Pitlochry

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End of the Line

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Photo taken at: Kyle of Lochalsh railway station

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Big Clouds Across the Water

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Photo taken at: Pettycur Beach

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Photo taken at: Dundee

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Moving to Lochside Grange – Completion and Handover

Last time I blogged about the new house was prior to completion, now we’re just over a week on from completion so prompted by the round of stories in the press this weekend filled with new build nightmares such as this horrific Bovis story from the BBC and this collection of Charles Church new home owners from the Guardian, I thought I’d continue with our experience with Lovell Homes on Lochside…

Playing the New Build Game Again

So we’re playing the New Build game again. Seventeen years after we bought our current house off plan, and seven years after we last tried to buy a new build at the Milford Grange development in Winnersh, and the solicitor advised us to pull out when it transpired one of the two spaces they were selling us with the property was designated as a visitor space and we weren’t actually getting…