http://www.ridey.net/index.php writing about whatever, whenever Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:25:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Charlie poses for his "baseball card" photo in his new uniform. Yesterday was Opening Day for the Horsham Junior Baseball Club and Charlie's team, the Athletics, played the Red Sox. Charlie went three for four with two runs scored and in general had a great time even though the A's ... http://www.ridey.net/index.php/2008/06/15/its-opening-day-in-england/ Charlie took part in a concert at his school last week, playing two pieces on his recorder. The first is a duet with a classmate and the second a solo for which he didn't even need to have the music in front of him. Bravo, Charlie! Put these on your ... http://www.ridey.net/index.php/2008/06/15/charlie-in-concert/ We lucked out and got just enough of a sunny day to make our annual trip to the bluebell wood today. It's always a special day in a very special place for our family. Charlie's bluebell slideshow 2008 http://www.ridey.net/index.php/2008/05/03/bluebells-2008/ If you've sent any email to anyone with a ridey.net address in the past 24 hours or so, it probably bounced back. Sorry about that. But apparently I'm a very lazy system administrator because I got caught out by this bit of geek nastiness. I think I've sorted out the ... http://www.ridey.net/index.php/2008/03/26/my-mail-misery/ Charlie has a close look at an iron railing during our visit to Bruge last weekend, where we also checked out the windmills at the edge of the old town. It was our sixth (we think) visit to this magical place and Charlie's second, and we'll definitely be back again ... http://www.ridey.net/index.php/2008/02/26/face-to-face-in-bruge/ Ridey.net is changing to a new internet service provider some time on Monday, so the website and email will be unavailable for a day or so. But rest assured that no email will be lost over the down time. We'll soon be back up and running faster (we hope) than ... http://www.ridey.net/index.php/2008/02/16/change-is-coming/ Charlie with the yew tree we planted today along the route of one of our favourite walks. It first sprouted up in our garden when we were living in Bletchingley and had been confined to a pot ever since. We hope it will thrive in its new home, and ... http://www.ridey.net/index.php/2008/01/01/happy-yew-year/ That's Charlie at about 6.15am, managing to stay still long enough to have his picture taken with all the presents that Santa brought in the night. He didn't stay still for long, especially when he opened a couple of presents in particular. Happy Christmas! http://www.ridey.net/index.php/2007/12/25/merry-christmas-2/ Charlie with his classmates during their Christmas concert today, and below, at the microphone for his 'solo'. He was thrilled to get to sing with a microphone for the first time and he and the rest of Year Three were brilliant Christmas stars. Watch a short clip of Charlie here ... http://www.ridey.net/index.php/2007/12/14/our-christmas-star/ The impressive train shed of the newly opened St Pancras International Station, now the London terminus of the Eurostar service, the Christmas lights on the Champs Elysee leading up to the Arc de Triomphe, and the Paris traffic seen from La Defense - all taken at either end of my ... http://www.ridey.net/index.php/2007/12/11/from-london-to-paris/