Hall of fame

We thought we’d dedicate a page to the wonderful people who have made the effort to come visit us in France . Hopefully this will fill up steadily over time (so that we need to use thumbnail pics).

2009 Visitors

Tim & Anna drove through the South of France over Easter 2009, stopping by our place for a night.

Jen flew by in June 2009 while touring Europe at high speed.

Ed & Gail almost collided, travelling separately at high speed all over Europe they both managed to visit briefly in September 2009 two nights apart.

2009 Honourable Mentions

Jason got as far as Paris in May 2009 and did touristy stuff with us for a couple of days.

Everyone we met up with on our England Trip in June 2009: Richie & Hilary, the geeks at Bletchley, Craig, Jen (& Jen’s lovely friends) & Michelle.

Bruce on Twitter

@bengoldacre: "... for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions." -- Feet of Clay. 9 hours ago
@bengoldacre: Pratchett said it best: "And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum..." (1/2) 9 hours ago
@GOGBOT: Hack your own: http://sugru.com 1 day ago
.@stilgherrian: Ah! Reddit provides the answer: No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan 1 day ago
@stilgherrian: Dear gods. Did that thing actually fly? 1 day ago

Address and phone

I don't really want to put these online but, if you require them for some reason, shoot us an email (randall.angela @ gmail.com) and we'll get it to you.

If you're friends with Ange on Facebook you should be able to see the address and phone number here.

We have an Adelaide VOIP number (Yup, +61 8) which you can call for whatever your call rates are to Adelaide. It's connected to real phone with has a real ringtone, so please be kind when calling.

Don't forget, in Adelaide summer time France is 9.5 hours behind Adelaide. In Adelaide winter time, France is 7.5 hours behind. If you're in the Eastern states it could get up to about 10.5 hours different.

Rule of thumb, call after about 7pm in Australia and you probably won't wake us up.

If you're using Firefox, try the Foxclocks extension to keep track.

Combined Alcorn Lifestream

If we've been slack in updating this (who, us?) and you REALLY need to know what we're up to, then there's always a way.

Both of us tend to lurk online a lot and frequently comment or share something interesting on some site or other. We know it's hard to keep track, so we made a site especially to drag all the important stuff in JUST FOR YOU GUYS!

So, take a look. It may or may not quell your urge to complain that we haven't posted a proper blog update in forever. :) http://alcorn.soup.io/planet

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