The O.C. Englishman's blog

Our first visitors from the UK have just departed our house for a trip up north in California.
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It’s amazing how fragile our control over the earth is. It just takes once teensy-weensy (massive) volcano to ground half of Europe and strand millions of people away from their homes. Sleeping in an airport lounge for best part of a week is not my idea of fun.
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Brian the beagle, our boy

I’ve not really mentioned Brian much. Shame on me. So, on the eve of his six month “birthday” it’s only right I should write a little something about our chap – or “the boy” as we affectionately refer to him.
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Wahey! The 2010 MLB season is upon us, and the O.C. Englishman is in hog-heaven again.
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For the past few months I have been partaking in hikes with the O.C. hiking club. Their website is part of meetup.com – a site where anyone with an interest can set a group or club which then allows others to find and join them.
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It would be rude not to acknowledge that three years ago today Mrs H and I got married at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel in, er, Hollywood (awful website, BTW. Just sayin’).
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After the slight refresh of this site, I was left feeling a tad disappointed because I couldn’t think of a “wow factor” header.
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This week we were invited to go to The Magic Castle in Hollywood. Originally I thought it was something like Chuck E Cheese’s, but alas not. It bills itself as the world’s most famous club for magicians and magic enthusiasts and is an “exclusive” members’ only club. However, on the Saturday night when we visited it seemed it was strictly limited to half the population of L.A.
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Today the mother-in-law took us and Jennifer’s sister and husband for an anniversary meal at Walt’s magic kingdom – Disneyland in Anaheim, CA. Conveniently for both couples, our anniversaries are only a few days apart.
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More botox than the full nip and tuck, though.

Now that I have being playing with WordPress for some time, I am getting more familiar with the hands-on customization of templates, the loop and all the other great funky functions that allow developers to get it ‘just so’.
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