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I ran the Zürich Marathan 10K City Run this morning. I wasn't over enamoured of the very early start but it proved to be good as I ran really well and posted a better time than I'd expected!
Official time 53:58,9 
329th overall out of 899
80th out of 199 in my category.

There's something lovely about live music whilst you're running a race, and the diversity here is much appreciated. A couple of steel bands, as well as a random man playing a saxophone (badly) contrasted with two groups of gentlemen playing alpine horns - so serene and inspiring, almost literally uplifting.

And afterwards, free popcorn. Just what I needed. 

Other smiles today

Fabian Cancellara aka Spartacus won Paris-Roubaix in a battle to the line. My Swiss hero <3

Hugs from the boys at the end of the race and their caring attitude when I was shivering, teeth chattering.

John has some good painkillers for his sore back - I was glad to see the glimmer of a smile flicker across his pained face.

Mini eggs and my favourite biscuits courtesy of a nifty bit of smuggling from the "Northern Easter Bunnies." Thanks!

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In Morse code -  ... -- .. .-.. . 

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This time last year...

Happy anniversary Mum and Ray!

Had a busy day and, as I'm running a race tomorrow, we went to Saalsporthalle to pick up my number and so I could eat my free pasta - tasty!
Nothing special to report but good day!

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In Hexadecimal -

S= 53

M= 4D

I= 49

L= 4C

E= 45

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We went to Basel today which meant that we had another game of 'Study the public transport network map and find funny names' - I think you will see our favourite on the above photo!

Jude's glee at being on a TGV was also a huge smiling point - he does like a good train. Isaac, on the other hand, loves a good leaflet, map or timetable!

I can recommend the Fondation Beyeler gallery - a good variety of interesting artists (although we were rather annoyed that ALL the Picassos, and the Warhols and Lichtensteins were on loan to other galleries!

After the gallery we went to investigate Basel and stopped for a drink. Not many McDonalds where you get this view!

And my website is back up and running and pink! Hurrah!

Smile in other languages
In Binary (Intel x86 ASCII set) - 
S= 01110011
M= 01101101
I= 01001001
L= 01101100
E= 01000101

(Thanks to David Pickup for supplying me with more ideas. Watch this space over the next few days!)

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Today is one of those days when my smile slipped a bit - the hacking of my website was less easily sorted than we'd hoped and required a complete wipe and rebuild, just as lots of people were wanting to look at it. It's still not done - and I feel dreadful as I can't do anything. A friend hosts it and is having to do all the work for me.

And that's where's smile came back. I am so fortunate to have such a kind lovely friend. Especially as we have never actually met. He's about as far north as you can get in Scotland without ending up in the sea and I'm now in Switzerland. Our friendship was formed discussing edtech on Sunday nights via videocon and cemented 'heckling subversively' on the back channel. I've sent him cake and he's sent me a toffee apple every year (including in Switzerland although Customs ate it I fear!) and we have a shared love of cows. And once I calmed down today, I spent a while thinking about all that and smiling.
So, thank you Sinclair for being such a hero. And thank you for the smiles }:8)
PS love to Angus!

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In BSL (British Sign Language) Click here

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This time last year (above) I was sunbathing in Konstanz - it's rather colder this year but I was still wearing my dungarees!

Lots of smiles today, not least this evening when I was interviewed by @EDUTalkr aka John and David for their weekly radio broadcast. Great to talk to them and great to share some ideas and thoughts about education, technology and creativity. I'm going to have to write something about it as I've now thought of so much more that I could have said and want to say! But not now as I have a good book to read, a bath run and a cup of chocolate Horlicks to drink.
Big smile!


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In ASL (American Sign Language) -
 


PS this continues to make me smile every time I look at it!

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I love all the cute animals pictures that pop up on my FB/Twitter feeds and here are some of the ones that have caused Jude to utter the 'A' word - 

"They're so ADORABLE!"

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In Quenya - raita

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Look what I've got! Thank you so much to my English/Swiss/Hungarian Easter bunnies who smuggled them in from Ireland!

Things that made me smile today
An Easter egg with H and L as well as Isaac and Jude - great muddy fun!
Learning how to play a game that involves hitting boiled eggs against each other, a bit like conkers! Looking on Wikipedia it's played in the North of England too, but we were taught the Swiss/Hungarian version! I didn't have a go but the boys all did - and the great thing is, you get to eat the hard boiled eggs once it's over. If you're really good, you can end up with a pile of eggs (you the win the egg if you smash it more than yours!)
The sun shone and we went for a bike ride. 9.5 miles - and Jude didn't complain once. Hurrah!
Curry for tea!

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In Dothraki (language of Game of Thrones apparently!) - eme

(Still looking for more languages - I'm trying to get to 100. I have 92 so far...)

PS A great 'smile' related news item - you know how much I love recycling and this would be fun!