[Signed Hardback, read aloud to Adelle] After a life working for the British Foreign Office in various locations around the world, seemingly mostly in tropical protectorates, the writer and her husband rent an island in the outer Seychelles and try to make a living there. The island, Remire, was a working island with a workforce, […]
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
Archive for September 2026
Geocaching at Center Parcs
This isn’t real geocaching, it’s a sanitised family game they invented which involves using a GPS device to find plastic rocks with numbers on. It did get us a nice long walk around the site and to look at things we likely wouldn’t otherwise notice, so not all bad.
Glow in the dark ping pong
This is the cyberpunk future I was always looking forward to, it’s a bit less technical than I had anticipated, but definitely looks the part.
Nils Treetop Glider
He went on the treetop glider too.
Nils Arial Adventure
Nils went into the trees while I made friends with another dad who also wanted to stay firmly on the ground.
Meeting the owls
We all went to meet some owls.
1000 pictures of squirrels
We went to Center Parcs and came back with pictures of squirrels. Lots of pictures of squirrels. And few of a some other things.