I drove over to Peterborough today to catch-up with Alison W for lunch. We headed for The Granary and I was pretty impressed with myself, navigating around the menu and not compromising my Lent List. We caught up with others’ news and generally put the world-to-right – it was then that I noticed that my …
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Month:February 2013
Lunch with Roger H
I live such a exciting life, as I spend quite a few evenings impersonating taxi-drivers waiting outside Kettering Station. And now, life now has got much more interesting as I’ve started doing the same at PETERBOROUGH station. So, today, I could hardly contain myself when I drove to MARKET HARBOROIUGH Station!!! – is there …
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Mother’s Day comes Early!
With Mum’s health on a slow decline and with us not being able to see her on the official Mother’s Day, we visited her today. On the way there, we dropped in to Neil and Debbie, caught up with all their news, saw the boys and left Neil with couple of knackered PCs. Then it …
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Roast Lamb – Shaken not Stirred!
“The name’s ‘Lamb’, ‘Roast Lamb’”. Nick and Celina joined us this afternoon, together with David, for a food ‘n’ film evening. Ann prepared Tagliatelle with Prawns and Romano Peppers to start, followed by Roast Lamb infused with garlic & rosemary – we finished with Red Plum Amoretti Pots – a sort of exotic trifle in …
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4 Ate, Bar 4 – The Vines
We joined Janet and Jo and took a walk (yes, I walked!) to the recently opened Vines Restaurant and Bar, down the hill at the Grade II listed Barton Hall. The building itself had been unloved for many years but we’d heard that it had now been converted into a classy Restaurant and Bar with …
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Quattro to Prezzo
As I’m now sans-car, Ian and Mags drove over to ours for our three-monthly catch-up. Our destination was Prezzo in Kettering, the town’s newest restaurant sited (spookily) in the recently developed restaurant quarter. Ann was able to join us after a bat-out-of-hell drive back from Sheffield. In convoy, we headed into town and parked in …
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Aspirin vs Android – The Best Tablet?
OK, for headaches, I’d definitely recommend Aspirin, but for a truly mouth-watering techy-tablet experience, I’d choose the snappily titled: Asus Transformer Infinity. It’s my latest toy, manufactured by Asus – and even a nerdy person like me, has been blown away by its performance and capability. It looks like a laptop, but a quick button-click …
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Handbags at Noon!
Well, not quite as is was just ONE handbag and only 11.45! Carluccio’s, St Pancras I set off for London to meet up with my old friend, Peter J at our regular haunt – Carluccio’s at St Pancras. As I was waiting outside for Peter’s arrival, I noticed something a little odd about The Lovers …
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Food – Fit for a Queen
We drove up to Belton today to meet up with Ralph and Karen – The Queen’s Head was our destination, as it’s about half-way between theirs and ours – the food’s pretty good too! We’d been advised by the restaurant to get there in good time as there was a large party arriving just before …
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Radio 3
The rather clever Logitech Squeezebox Radio This has to be one of the most useful gadgets around. Imagine a radio that does everything an ‘ordinary’ radio does, but adds the ability to: play all the music you have stored on your computer give access to the past 7 days of BBC Radio (iPlayer Radio) tune …
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Lent Boy 2013
OK, here we are again, another year where I try and discipline myself to avoid certain foodstuffs during the period of Lent (starts tomorrow and finishes on the 30th March). Not sure how I’ll do this year, as last year was a real challenge (even with a slightly shorter list). So, please don’t feed …
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Cuts, Cats and Wellingtons
Biscuit Bon-Bon It’s another of our action-packed Saturdays after a relatively quiet week (I’m sure that should be the other way around!). First, I drove over to Peterborough, to reveal my ears and more of my forehead. Second, I handed over the car-keys and Ann to take the cats in for their six-weekly wash-‘n’-brushup with …
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Tech Alert (Part 1873)
Those who are ever-so-slightly ‘tech-phobic’ look away now, or click HERE for something prettier. This is my latest ‘toy’ – say hello to the Devolo dLAN 500 Wireless+. It looks ever-so-similar to the gizmo I fitted last year when we had satellite broadband installed, but there IS a difference. Those who don’t need SpecSavers will …
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DVD Review: Looper
With every review I’d read saying this was one of the best films of the year, I was eagerly looking forward to watching Looper. Sci-fi films don’t often court such consistent praise from the critics, but this one was an exception! Things didn’t get off to a good start when I realised I’d ordered the …
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That Sinkin Feeling
There was a time (not that long ago!) where the high point of my week would be working with a new group of managers on skills, where they needed to improve. These days, as the DoDO, I’m now content with much simpler things – and today is one of those days. It’s ‘Sink Day’! We’ve …
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Denis’s – for lunch
Lee wasn’t feeling so well, so it was just Ann and I driving up to Denis’ for lunch. Bev and Ady were also there having done most of the food prep (I think we’re the last in the family to meet Ady – I can’t think why it’s taken us so long!) Bev had prepared …
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Leicester – A Ring, A Pig and a Cutlery Set!
It’s Saturday, and nothing that a DoDO likes more after a hard week’s washing, ironing, car valeting and IT Support than a quiet sit-down with the papers. Forget that then! – it was off to Leicester for a mega-shop – and when I say ‘mega’, Ann’s leading the charge today, so it’ll be a biggy! …
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Broadband Satellite Comes of Age
In these parts, we need all the help we can get with our broadband connection. The pitiful speeds offered via the big players may be OK for the occasional download and checking of emails, but if you want to do big-boy stuff like watch iPlayer, download movies and maybe even upload data to websites, you’ll …
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