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Wail and Jordi after Jordi's first Rhein swim.
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Phebe celebrating being five and a half with her siblings.
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Freddie is #10... same number as Mesut Özil plays for Germany.
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Blimey, the hockey season has started already!
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My dry bag developed a split mid-Rhein...
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3000 for the annual Rhine Swim in Basel, half the number of last year but it was a little chillier - http://bazonline.ch/basel/stadt/3000-genossen-das-Rheinschwimmen/story/17230764
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Rhine swimming season has begun in earnest...
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Nadia and Lulu on Lulu's last ever day of being 16 and last ever day of never having been to a music festival.
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Having read the Guardian's partisan review of this game, I was there and can tell you Basel deserved to win on any criteria you care to mention. Over the 90 minutes they were the better side, conceding one fluke of a goal and one against the run of play.
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Skied Toggenburg today. Ab fab.
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This update your status place asks "How are you feeling, Nic?", so I am going to tell you. I have broken a bone in one big toe (somebody stood on it in ski boots when I didn't have ski boots on) and my other big toe is in the process of losing the toenail
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Tuesday morning I took up ice hockey. Tuesday afternoon I took up watch repairing (pictured, in Beyer Zurich) and Tuesday evening I came home to celebrate 8 happy years with my gorgeous wife.
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Bit of a hockey weekend. Yesterday was training, today Freddie had a Sharks Bambini game at Rheinfelden (with a magnificent backdrop across the Rhein to the Black Forest) and in the late afternoon we saw the senior Sharks team lose hopelessly against the
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Freddie made up about being upgraded from a white training shirt to a black...
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Played Wah-il at tennis up at the BIS this morning, then afterwards took a walk up the quaintly-named lane opposite.
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Freddie and his groupies.
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Yay! Freddie has made it onto the Basel Sharks Ice Hockey team... well the Bambis, anyway. December 1st vs Aarau.
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A walk in the Black Forest
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Our local supermarket in France has a great deal. Sixty euro off a bottle of wine - so its now only €239 a bottle. There´s a good price on Orangina also.
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Basel Sharks Bambinos - Freddie is bottom left.
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Completed Deutsche Intensiv A1 today, A2 starts in a couple of weeks.
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As a very occasional smoker, I still support the referendum in Switzerland on restricting secondary smoking, but suspect the vote will be lost. As you can see from the cigarette advertising here in Switzerland the smoking lobby is well able to look after
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In the Inferno-Seifenkistenrennen (Soap-box cart derby) Freddie won an award for innovative cart design (and skilful handling thereof) as well as his first medal!
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Freddie is now a Young Shark!
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Finished our Rhein swim at exactly 4.20 at mooring 420. How's that for a co-incidence!
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Wail and I about to swim the Rhein.
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Weather is perfect for swimming in the Rhine. Bunch of old boys here seemed to have forgot their cossies though.
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Fortunate enough to be in London to watch and soak up the amazing Olympic Games...
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Nadia, Freddie, Phoebe, Paloma and Vanessa
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Freddie with the girls
