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On the 28th of July I promised to sort the pictures of my vacation "over the weekend", so….. yes, I’m a tad late with that — four months late to be precise.

Better late than never though, so I proudly present the promised full report

Another good move in the development of the new IE7 — no popup windows without address bars anymore, making it more difficult to trick people into using a fake website.

This change, combined with the visibility of the lock (indicating a secure website) and colour coding in the address bar, is an extra help against phishing websites. The IE7 programmers even thought of the colourblind, as each colour is accompanied by an icon and a line of text that clearly shows the status of the website: red for phishing, yellow for suspicious, and green for secure websites.

Since the start of this school year Gabriël has been attending swimming lessons with school, every Monday.

Today was the first time parents were invited to watch, as it was a very special lesson — the kids were to swim completely dressed with shoes, jackets, scarves and woolly hats, in order to prepare them for the real life danger of falling through thin ice during the winter months.

First they received instructions, but then it was time to put it into practice:

The scary bit: on your back, backwards under the ice …

… to come up in the ice hole …

… then get your legs and arms on the sides of the ice hole, and roll over onto the ice …

… “swim” to the next challenge …

… climb out of the water onto the ice (with a bit of help) …

… and after crawling over thin ice to the side, make your way to the stairs: mission accomplished

(with apologies for the quality of the pics, they’re only screen caps from the movie I shot)

For some time now, the kids have been nagging me to let them bake something. Preferably cookies, but pizza wouldn’t be bad either.

Today I finally gave in, and they made a nice set of lovely apple muffins:

October 30th — almost a month and a half into autumn. The weather was much like summer though, as there was plenty of sunshine and the temperature rose to over 20 degrees Celcius.

I thought I’d better cease this last "summer’s day", so I took the kids for a walk along the river and to the park, where we stayed till the sun went down.

Of course I took my camera with me, and this is one of the pics I took before it got dark:

Cyclist on the dyke