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While My Bassoon..

… Gently Weeps. Yup that’s a Beatles song. There’s currently two issues I’m having with my bassoon: (more…)

Filed under: School — Xav @ 8:48 pm on March 6, 2009

I Hate Shaving

Earlier I learnt that the German verb to have a shave is sich rasieren (it’s reflexive and all that). But it takes far too long to actually shave, thank goodness I only need one every few days. Maybe a beard would be a good idea.. but preferably one of hair, not foam: (more…)

Filed under: Personal — Xav @ 6:06 pm on February 22, 2009

WW1 Weapons Wiki

For a History project in school, I have created a Wiki. Here’s my description on the site of how I made it: (more…)

Filed under: School, Tech — Xav @ 3:59 pm on February 8, 2009

The Snow

According to the news, this is the most it has snowed in the UK for 18 years. It sure looks like it. I spent the morning sledging at our local park (school was closed of course).

Filed under: Personal — Xav @ 3:36 pm on February 2, 2009

Rob. Challenge Done

Well, it was fun I suppose. We were given a blue plastic board with wheels attached, and made to follow an obstacle course. I can’t be asked to give any further detail, but we used PBASIC for programming it.

Filed under: School — Xav @ 8:44 pm on January 27, 2009

Robotics Challenge

Tomorrow 20 people from our school (me included) are going to the University of Surrey to design and program robots. It sounds like fun, I have to get up early though. Check back here tomorrow evening to find out how it went! (unless I die and have to postpone blogging until the day after)

Filed under: School — Tags: , , — Xav @ 8:37 pm on January 26, 2009

New Blogs

My good friends Lizzie Driscoll and Daniel Crook-Sycamore have decided they would like their own blogs. However, they are not happy with a dot-blogspot.com or dot-wordpress.com domain, so they have come to me instead. (more…)

Filed under: Family/Friends, School, Tech — Xav @ 1:02 pm on January 20, 2009

About The Nose…

Well, it looks like things are finally on the mend. After the first four weeks of recovery absolutely zilch happened, then about a week later I could breathe almost normally without having to open my mouth. (more…)

Filed under: Personal — Xav @ 12:54 pm

My Operation

Well, I dunno if you knew this already, but I’ve just been in for an operation. Here’s all the details: (more…)

Filed under: Personal — Xav @ 9:23 pm on December 11, 2008