The Barnes Family

Author: tim

  • www.tim-barnes.com now points here!

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    After moving most of the content – and I think everything that’s important, I’ve implemented a forwarder to transfer my old domain – www.tim-barnes.com – to this, my new site. There’s no longer any reason to visit the old site, and all future updates will be made to this one and my other blog at…

  • Barcelona in November

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    1804 What a place! We just came back from a week staying in an apartment in the Gothic Quarter – easy walk to the Metro and many of the sights. I took lots of pictures – I’ll post them as I get them processed. But if you get a chance, it’s the most wonderful mix…

  • Three days in Dorset

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    1621 When my family first came to England (I think at the end of 1959?) we lived in a small coastguard cottage in Swanage. Last week we visited Swanage for the first time in many years, and showed our children where I lived when I was younger than them. On this trip, we stayed in…

  • Pictures of the Cotswolds

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    1577 This was a walk over a period of four or five days in 2004 – our first year in the UK. A group of Marina’s friends came over, which was nice, and they walked across the hills, from pub to pub. These are not new pictures – just moved from the old site for…

  • Budapest

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    1275 I had been to Moscow once, but the rest of the family had never been to any country that was once part of the USSR until our trip to Budapest. It’s an interesting mix. Still lots of Soviet-era buildings, but the people have removed all the statues reflecting the brutalist style of the Soviet…

  • Mountain School Family Camp

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    1305 It’s a long time ago now. When the boys were small, they attended a wonderful pre-school just up the hill from us in Los Gatos. The characteristics of the school were an outdoorsy, robust approach to life, with lovely nurturing staff. But one of the main things was that it was all about parental…

  • Integrating my photo blog

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    I have maintained a separate page and blog for my thoughts about digital photography, but it’s hard to keep more than a couple of sites active and interesting, so I’m going to incorporate my comments on photography in this blog. The first thing I’ll do is re-post the old articles here, and then in the…

  • Flash: Our little boat

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    1182 Flash is our little sailing dinghy. She was built from raw materials over the summer of 2003. A wonderful project – and a great way to forget the stresses of the working day! The design and the bits came from an outfit called Flounder Bay in Anacortes, Washington. They are no longer there, as…

  • The Nikon D80 is in the shops!

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    I saw it today in Jessops in Bracknell – it looks more like the D50 than the D70s, and it’s certainly small. I think it’s a great looking camera, and perhaps if I was starting again I’d consider a pair of D80s rather than my D50 and D200…

  • Cornwall pictures up

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    1114 I just posted the pictures of our visit to Cornwall. This was a birthday present from Marina – a big secret, well kept. We dropped the boys off with my parents, and took off westwards. It was a real thrill to find ourselves right out on the point of St. Andrews, finding our way…