If you are a subscriber to our blog or a regular reader, you will know that whan I moved back to the UK from Florida at the end of July, I had to leave my two daughters behind (with their Mom), and since I am missing them terribly, like all Dads do, we decided to [...]

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No I haven’t physically lost anything, but this is about all the posts that I have wanted to write this month, but just haven’t had the time or energy to get around to. I am frustrated that my last post was about taking my girls to the park on the 3rd July, which is now [...]

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Things almost went into a meltdown yesterday in South Florida where temperatures hit an all time high in Fort Lauderdale (see report from the Sun-Sentinel) where it reached 100 degrees at the airport, with a heat index of 111. There wasn’t much breeze all day, it was really hot, sticky and uncomfortable.   When I left [...]

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Today was my first day back at work after three months of being unemployed. So naturally I was rather nervous, as most of us are when starting a new job, and as is typical for me, every new job I have takes me to somewhere I don’t know.  This one is no different, at Juno [...]

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I managed to capture a Mockingbird this morning on my walk around Deer Creek.   It was only 7:30am on a Sunday and it was so quiet out — apart from the birds… Shame I had the camera set to record on compact, but the audio is what I was trying to capture.

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