http://www.eruvia.org/index.htmlNews from the McCalls of Marlowenian@eruvia.orgCopyright 2006 Ian McCall2007-07-20T21:22:37+01:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:28:00 +0100ian@eruvia.orgPersonal2007-07-20T21:22:37+01:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/2007-07-20_maidenhead_floods.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/2007-07-20_maidenhead_floods.html#unique-entry-id-14There was heavy rain this morning, and the route between Marlow and Maidenhead station saw a lot of flooding. It's a seven and a half mile journey and today it took an hour and a half. I managed to get some video of the event - not much because I had to concentrate, but a little. The unedited footage can be found on the movies page here.]]>ian@eruvia.orgSite2006-12-27T02:25:18+00:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/5b905e783e066d3f9d648ddb78f573d9-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/5b905e783e066d3f9d648ddb78f573d9-13.html#unique-entry-id-13I'm playing with a new Rapidweaver plugin, Carousel. This useful tool gives me a new manner of presenting photos, and also allows custom styles. To try this out, I've created a gallery for a rainbow which appeared outside our house in September 2006. The gallery uses the Carousel plugin and the VerySimple style found on this page. Click here to see the gallery.]]>ian@eruvia.orgPersonal2006-12-17T11:38:14+00:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/d30416c357c41325561684425272c3c4-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/d30416c357c41325561684425272c3c4-12.html#unique-entry-id-12Our new toy, the Wii arrived on Thursday. We've spent hours on it now - really enjoying it. Definitely a change from the sedentary style of playing and it can get really quite tiring if you put enough effort in. There's a video of Sarah & Peter playing baseball on our movies page, it's a longish video at 7 minutes, but you get the idea quite fast.]]>ian@eruvia.orgPersonal2006-08-04T17:30:41+01:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/e25a8415880421a39dd83faef4778fca-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/e25a8415880421a39dd83faef4778fca-11.html#unique-entry-id-11We were up in Edinburgh on the 27th to the 29th, to see the marriage of Alan and Mae Lynn at Dundas Castle. Some photos can be found here.]]>ian@eruvia.orgPersonal2006-07-20T01:19:31+01:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/c4855951d1accb53b8ad28b39cca4a0d-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/c4855951d1accb53b8ad28b39cca4a0d-8.html#unique-entry-id-8I recently bought a copy of Logic Express, and have been playing with it by reworking an old track of mine (by old, I mean about ten years old). The result is The Mystic, now playing on the music page.]]>ian@eruvia.orgKids2006-07-16T13:40:10+01:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/a44cdc1e9e80ec029711c0004b23c2ba-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/a44cdc1e9e80ec029711c0004b23c2ba-7.html#unique-entry-id-7Sarah and I went for a walk along the Thames on Saturday, starting from Higginson Park near Court Garden and going as far as Temple Lock - a big walk for a four year-old. Some photos are here - study the leaves carefully, can you see the dragonfly in both of them?]]>ian@eruvia.orgKids2006-07-14T08:12:34+01:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/e3623b265bc1ef0c30d1f6552896982b-6.html#unique-entry-id-6http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/e3623b265bc1ef0c30d1f6552896982b-6.html#unique-entry-id-6It's been open evening at Sarah's new school, Burford. She's very excited about going there, and keeps trying to put her uniform on. The school seems very nice from looking around - the classrooms are fine and filled with the children's work, and the playing area outside is exceptional with a large surfaced area for sports and also field areas. The whole place adjoins woodland, making it look very attractive too.]]>ian@eruvia.orgKids2006-07-14T08:07:49+01:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/757c7f73bec39e6e97fb07f388b4800c-5.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/757c7f73bec39e6e97fb07f388b4800c-5.html#unique-entry-id-5Matthew has been crawling for a couple of weeks now, and is also trying to pull himself up to stand. Naturally there have been a few accidents along the way, but nothing terrible. We've held off taking photos of Matthew due to his previous illness, but now things have cleared up and so here are a few shots.]]>ian@eruvia.orgSite2006-06-24T18:19:30+01:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/cdf923934f9a8210940147a76255015a-4.html#unique-entry-id-4http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/cdf923934f9a8210940147a76255015a-4.html#unique-entry-id-4OK - pretty much back together. The photos section is looking a bit sparse to say the least, but it will build up over time. I've rejigged all the URLs since the last time as well - makes things look an awful lot better, no more page10/page10.html nonsense. The annoying thing is that the RSS feed URL has changed, but it's only the once and the site wasn't being regularly updated before this.]]>ian@eruvia.orgSite2006-06-24T10:40:48+01:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/6675561582511777364e1a2945621d7f-3.html#unique-entry-id-3http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/6675561582511777364e1a2945621d7f-3.html#unique-entry-id-3Well, less than 24 hours after creating the new site I had a hard drive crash on my laptop. Although my backups are good, they're not so good as to have backed something up from the same day. Everything's back to normal now and I'm trying to recreate the site at the moment.]]>ian@eruvia.orgSite2006-06-11T03:20:00+01:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/0b88bb2e853cd153dc4e6fe8b7ffb67b-2.html#unique-entry-id-2http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/0b88bb2e853cd153dc4e6fe8b7ffb67b-2.html#unique-entry-id-2The redesign for this place is not yet complete. Because of this, a few things available on the old site are not currently available on the new - mostly old photographs and movies of the children. This will be replaced over the coming days...look here for news of what's happening.]]>ian@eruvia.orgSite2006-06-11T02:05:00+01:00http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/f236858b0d65f706c69bd9e5608eee99-1.html#unique-entry-id-1http://www.eruvia.org/news/files/f236858b0d65f706c69bd9e5608eee99-1.html#unique-entry-id-1eruvia.org now has a new look, hopefully making things look a lot more polished. For those that are interested, I've moved to using RapidWeaver for web site development and added a few plugins from YourHead Software as well. The result is as you see - a lot nicer and cleaner, I think.]]>