Today we went to a market (Rinok) near our house and found out what really happened to the three little pigs! One of them was being prepared for dinner and the other two were ready to go!
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Filed under: Funny, Living in Moscow
Well not often I make it to a news paper. Today was an exceptional exception making when I made it quite accidently to Mir Novesti (РњР˜Р? РќРћР?РћРЎРўР?Р?) a popular weekly journal in Moscow
Our PR manager sprung a last minute oppertunity onto us to show Russia’s first ‘Narodny Artist’ (People’s Artist) Alexey Goman what a day [...]
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Filed under: Living in Moscow, Media Appearances
This morning Elena walked Richard to school. The usual way it goes is that whoever walks him to school carries his bag until they get close to the school grounds. Then there is a pit stop where he takes of his hat and gloves and puts on his school bag to look ‘cool’ when he [...]
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Filed under: Richard, School
This morning on the way out the door to school Richard picked a rose from the vase near the front door and proudly said that he will take it to school (it is pretty normal to take flowers to shcool for various occassions although today wasnt one of them).
With this Babuliya asked ‘will you give [...]
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Apart from the story below being grizly in itself the picture that went with it just makes the reality all the more apparent. I don’t think you would see such an image in the Australian media but here in Russia it is common place.
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Well it has started early. As Richard’s milk teeth have been dropping they have been replaced by not only game boy games from the tooth fairy but also crooked shiny new big teeth. On a recent visit to the dentist we were advised to start using an appliance called a T4k Trainer.
As advised we started [...]
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Filed under: Medical & Health, Richard
I found this very interesing excercise book the other day when shopping for Richards new school books. Amongst the covers of racing cars and nice garden settings I found a new fad in animal covers. One part of the animal is made from material that feels like the animal. There were rabit ones that felt [...]
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Well it is that time in life to leave the comfort of home and the easy life in pre-school and head off to school. For Mum and Dad this was a major process. After deciding against the English school options in Moscow (after negative feedback from various sources) we settled on Russian schools with English [...]
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Richard has just started calling me at work now to find out when I am coming home. He hits the speed dial for my mobile and voila, he can speak with me!
Today he called me to ask what I was doing. I told him that I was going to have dinner in the restaurant at work. [...]
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Filed under: Living in Moscow, Richard
Just now I was quietly reheating some coffe in the microwave and Babuliya was minding her own business tidying up in the bathroom. Out of the blue Richard crept up on Babuliya and shouted BOO running away leaving Babuliya to catch her breath.
He came into the kitchen very smugly and ready to share his excitement. [...]
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OK so you are having problems installing WordPress 2.01?on a GoDaddy Server!?
I spent hours looking for the solutions for the problems that I was having there.? The most common advice was to migrate everything to Unix as that solves a load of problems with GoDaddy hosting but doesn’t do you any good if you wanted [...]
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Filed under: Technical