26th Oct

Ubuntu Linux – Gutsy Gibbon

I was speaking to good friend the other day and he was surprised to learn that I use Linux instead of Microsoft Windows. Given that he is doing some IT training at the moment it is a bit …

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24th Oct

Xdebug for PHP

I have been using Xdebug for a while now during development of my PHP projects.

The feature that I have found most useful is its ability to create cachegrind files which can then be interpreted by tools such as …

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24th Oct

Bramblewick Guest House

Way back in August it was the Beached Festival. We had been looking forward to it all year, well since the previous August in fact. We were all booked in with the nice people at …

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24th Oct

Teabag

Sadly, on Saturday 13th October 2007 one of our guinea pigs – Teabag – died. He was only a 2 year old so had plenty of years left in him. I think that if we knew a month ago what …

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7th Oct

L. R. Series has been launched

It’s a little bit belated, however The Floating Frog have launched L. R. Series – our first online shop.

The brief was to create an online presence for L. R. Series’ land rover parts business with integrated checkout and …

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24th Jun

Jasper

We’ve taken in a stray cat.

This might not sound like the best plan given that we have two guinea pigs and a hamster, but there you go.

Vicky …

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24th Jun

Garden update

We have grass, vegetables and half a path.

We’ve had a good crop of radishes and lettuces. Have sown more but left it too late …

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22nd Apr

Nintendo Wii

Vicky bought a Nintendo Wii. I’m not going to do a review of it as there will be a million and one out there, however we think it’s brilliant – good fun and makes your arms ache …

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22nd Apr

How to dismantle a greenhouse

If you ever have to dismantle a greenhouse please do not just smash it to pieces and let nature take its course – I’m still picking out handfuls of glass after months of working on the soil.

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22nd Apr

Robin!

That crazy Carol Klein woman did a series and book called Grow Your Own Veg. She always had a robin watching her, and I do too – I feel like I have …

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9th Apr

Buried frogs

I didn’t know that frogs could dig, did you?

When I was walking up the garden I noticed a hole, an thought the earth …

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8th Apr

Our first crops

We’ve planted our first crops!

Vicky has grown some broad beans from seed – they’re doing nicely, despite my best attempts at killing them – when I came to …

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7th Apr

Preparing the lawn bed

Not very exciting, but we’ve started breaking down and raking the bed where the lawn will go. This has been harder than …

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24th Feb

Almost dug over

Big leaps forward.

On the 2nd January Steve decided that given he hadn’t made any new year’s resolutions that 2007 was to be the year of the garden.

First he borrowed a relatives hedge trimmer and butchered the hedge. It took several …

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30th Aug

The beginning of the garden

We didn’t move into the house until November, but we nipped around the back of the ten-foot to take some …

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