Playing with Pages

May 16, 2016developmentbootstrap, development, github, LaTeX, pages, resumeCat B

GitHub has a super cool feature called “Pages” which lets you host a website from a GitHub repository on your GitHub account. Hosting from GitHub makes deployment really simple and slick.

Tom wanted to use his Pages site to host a web version of his resume which was such a great idea that I totally copied it. Tom’s is really awesome though – he built it using LaTeX to create both the html and a really neatly-formatted pdf from the same markdown file.

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Quiet contemplations

April 8, 2016thoughtsplanning, spring, summerCat B

It’s been a quiet few months since the excitement of hosting Christmas here. The weather has been pretty grim until recently – rainy, windy and generally unpredictable – but we are starting to see the beginnings of Spring and even Summer.

Basically, I’ve been sneezing for a month straight, so it must be Spring!

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Christmas 2015 Report

January 20, 2016thoughtscelebrations, cevennes, christmas, friends, games, montpellierCat B

Joyeux Noël! Fröhliche Weihnachten! Merry Christmas!

I hope you had a wonderful holiday season, regardless of your beliefs of Christmas itself. For me, it’s a great opportunity to spend time with friends or family and to eat yourself stupid.

Most of our family and friends are thousands of miles away, but this year, they came to us for celebration and feasting. We had 6 guests in the end: from Leipzig, Germany; Barcelona, Spain and from London, England.

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New Flickr Set – Melbourne, November – December 2015

January 7, 2016photography, travelaustralia, flickr, melbourne, photgraphy, woodendCat B

Photos from our trip to Melbourne.

See the full flickr set here.

Melbourne Report

December 15, 2015photography, travelhome, melbourne, photography, travel, woodendCat B

At the end of November until the first week of January, Tom and I travelled home to Melbourne. For two wonderful weeks, although we have been gone almost 4 years, it was like we had never left: pubs, friends, family and inhaling the smell of gumtrees.

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