If you are ever in the vicinity of Westerham in Kent and fancy a curry in very posh surroundings, look no further than the imaginatively titled ShamPan 4, cunningly located in what used to be the rather mediocre Spinning Wheel restaurant. We took Mum there tonight (thinking it was still the ‘old’ Spinning Wheel’). From …
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Month:September 2013
The School Re-opens
In my capacity as Chairman of the ex-pupils association, ‘The Old Croydonians’, I was invited with many others, to see the official re-opening of the school, now reborn as: The Crescent Primary School. It was a well supported event, with the pupils singing their school song and the head-teacher recounting how the school reinvented itself. …
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2013: Birthday Trip to London
57 on the outside, 19 on the inside! Well, that’s my ‘take’ on things! Ann took the day off and we headed for London. We set off on the 8.59 from Kettering which we caught with minutes to spare because of some congestion on the way there! Phew! On arrival, the main attraction was …
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A Dent in Derngate!
I haven’t been to the Derngate Theatre since November, last year, so it was good to make the return journey for a couple of reasons: First up, they were showing a performance of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy – Live and second, it starred my good friend, Susan Sheridan, who played the part of the …
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Vines Dine – Fine!
Ann had been working in Sheffield for most of the week, so we decided to celebrate the end of her manic week and take the short walk to The Vines. Yes, I know, us WALKING!, hard to believe, but it’s true! Well, that was the plan, until Ann got caught in a really bad traffic-jam …
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Job Done!
I wasn’t anticipating that after the difficulty of removing the cabinet front from the old fridge door a couple of days ago, that attaching it to the new fridge was going to be any easier! However, after some words of guidance from my brother, it all went very smoothly! The fitting kit was a doddle …
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Who Moved My Cheese? (Part 2)
As planned, the replacement fridge arrived today – and after yesterday’s fiasco (in Who Moved My Cheese? – Part 1) attempting to remove the cabinet door (that I needed to keep) from the fridge door (that I didn’t!), I was hoping that installing would be a far more straightforward job than removing! Probably the hardest …
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Who Moved My Cheese? (Part 1)
..but more to the point, who moved my fridge? As all good people-developers know, ‘Who Moved my Cheese? is the title of a very successful book & video by Spencer Johnson. It illustrates how to cope with change. Dealing with change seemed wholly relevant as I ventured into the murky world of ‘DIY’ – specifically, …
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Small is Beautiful!
Out with the white in with the black! You know me – if it’s ‘tech’, “I love it!”. Finally after what the Sky installer estimated was at least a 10-year-old piece of kit, our white ‘Sky160-box’ in the bedroom finally gave up (after slowly ‘losing’ most channels one-by-one over the past few weeks). In spite …
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Queen’s Greatest Hit?
Today, we’re heading for the capital to take a look round Buckingham Palace! It’s our second visit, but a first for Roger, Jane and Oliver. Roger has organised everything – food, taxis and rail tickets. So we just needed to take the short drive to Harlow Town railway station to get us to Liverpool Street. …
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Non-Techies, look away now!
I’m posting this so that others needn’t go through the same steep learning curve as me, trying to sort out (deep breath!) ”Blogger posts’ visibility using a sub-domain, after a change of domain host”. I spent about 5 hours in all, trawling the net and ringing support-techies for the answer. Lucky I’m retired with nothing …
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The Burger and the Politician
Those of a superstitious nature might have felt that today’s lunch was never meant to happen! I’d agreed to meet up with Alison W in Peterborough for our normal twice-yearly get together. We’d met back in February at The Granary and although the lunch there was ‘OK’ we decided that this time we’d try somewhere …
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DVD: Star Trek – Into Darkness
An exciting start with the pre-credit scenes in this second outing for the rebooted Star Trek franchise – and for the seven people in the world who have 3D TVs, there’s even more to enjoy – especially in the first 10 minutes. The major characters all looked and sounded like their ‘originals’, although ‘new’ Kirk’s …
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Sally gets an iPad Mini
I took the train to London today to meet up with Sally B. She’s treated herself to a shiny new iPad Mini – so that was a perfect excuse for me to immerse myself in a fruit-based OS (part of my ‘five-a-day’), catch up with all Sally’s news, and use up my last Pizza Express …
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Oxford/Silver Party
We started the day by driving over to Oxford to meet up with Nicki C. We did the smart thing and took the Park-and-Ride, both arriving there at about the same time. Oxford was fab. The weather turned out to be better than forecast – hot! and we had a great meal in the roof-top …
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