It looks like Club Diana, where we held Ann’s surprise 50th Birthday Party has called in the Administrators Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My lifelong love of technology and communication (in all its forms), together with a fondness for …
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Bank Holiday Weekend with Ian and Sharon – Arundel
Another fine day down here and we’re going to make the most of it and drive over to Arundel. Shops first, then the Castle! But not before we visited our fave posh ‘greasy spoon’ here: The Moat house in the town centre, and enjoyed a full-English brekky!!! Then it was a mooch round the …
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Bank Holiday Weekend with Ian and Sharon
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr The day began early – earlier than planned – Neil rang to say that the M11 was closed in both directions, so we left around 7.30. Lee is cat-sitting for us and looking after the numerous ironing duties – thanks Lee! The plan was to drop into Mum’s, …
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Ann’s Surprise 50th Birthday Party
Thanks for being there everyone! We had a great time. Ann’s face on arrival, was a picture!!! After what seems like years of planning, Ann’s ‘day’ has finally arrived. The surprise… My thanks to a lot of people for helping me to make it happen… Eddie and Michelle at Club Diana for helping me plan …
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Ann’s 50th Birthday
It’s Ann’s 50th today – and much to her dis-pleasure, she had to work (having previously booked it as a day off). On the plus side, it gave me the opportunity to fine-tune my scheming for tomorrow night when I think for the first time in her life, she’ll be speechless!!!! Well, we’ll see! Steve …
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The Cats are 6 today
Last year, at this time, we mentioned that Biscuit had finally ventured into territories unknown – my lap! Since then, although it’s not been a regular thing, she does snuggle-down every so often. Not so Bon-Bon – or so we thought! Back in September, for no reason at all, she suddenly decided to try my …
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Manic Saturday!
8.00am: It was over to Peterborough for a haircut. Then back home for a quick change of clothes before we head off to Lamport for the treat-of-the-week – our full tasting session for our proposed Wedding Breakfast. 10.45am: The sampling session was a really enjoyable event, and the chef and Emma had worked very hard …
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Missing – believed spirited away by the Fairies!
Some things in life are undisputable – dropped toast always lands butter side down, socks never match when they come out of the washing-machine and garden hoses ALWAYS tangle when you unroll them – even if you’ve rolled them up perfectly. Here’s another – I NEVER lose things! OK, they might end up being misplaced …
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Another ‘full-on’ day
Here we are then – Sunday – where I’m trying to cram three-days of work into just this morning!!! (cue: Mission Impossible theme!!) We’re on holiday from next Saturday, (Lee is house-sitting), and I’m out for most of this week too! We’re also out later today with Lee to take her for her birthday lunch …
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DVD: Shutter Island
It’s another ‘fish-chips-mushy peas-and-a-film-night’ here tonight. Jo, Janet and Lee popped round (it was Lee’s birthday too!) and the consensus for which film to watch was Shutter Island starring Leo Di Caprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. Actually, the choice was pretty easy, as it was the only ones in my new batch that was …
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Pie + Wine = Perfection!
Nicki joined for tonight and plans to stay for most of Saturday. Although primarily, the mission tomorrow is to shop, I wanted to to have a quiet word with her about my plans so far, for Ann’s surprise birthday ‘do’ next year. Nicki’s going to making the cake – that’s brilliant, she’s so talented! Lee …
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A Decisive Day
The day started with a quick trip to [ssshhhh!] to start the ball rolling for Ann’s surprise 50th Birthday celebration next year. Then it was off a local Letting Agent in Kettering with Lee to attempt to avert a domestic disaster! It would appear that the previous tenant had been a bit naughty, fallen behind …
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Hippo Bathday!
It’s my birthday. As we’re away, I’m going to open my presents when we get back from Bury St Edmunds later. We were both up around 8, and started to get packed. We initially planned to go to Ely Cathedral and have a look round, but the weather was cold with heavy rain, so we …
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Tech Alert: The Eye-Fi Card
Now here is a really clever bit of tech – really, really clever. No, REALLY! If you’ve got a digital camera AND it stores its photos on an ‘SD card’, put one of these on your Christmas list. What does it do? It might look like an ordinary SD card, in fact it’s a ‘class …
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Saturday in Bury St Edmunds
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr As part of my pre-birthday treat, we’re here in Bury St Edmunds with Lee, David and Val – staying at The Angel. After a really (really) good night’s sleep (I was shattered after eight days training in two weeks) – I’m ready to take on the world…and The …
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The Angel
Rush, rush,rush. Although I managed to finish my Course early, it was still a bit of a rush when I got home (around 4.30). Ann got in not long after and we ran around like mad things, to try and get ready for a 6pm departure. Actually, we didn’t do too badly, as …
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Debbie Does… Kettering
Jo and Janet picked us up and we joined Debbie, Stefan and a load of the neighbours at Berardi’s in Kettering to celebrate Deb’s 50th. We’d not been there before, so we weren’t sure what to expect. It’s just opposite Sainsbury’s in the town, so parking was easy! As we entered the place, we could …
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Wilf!
We popped down to Jo and Janet’s primarily to wish Jan a happy birthday. That’s when we ran into their two gorgeous kittens – ‘Wilf’ and ‘Oscar’. What a couple of sweeties (in spite of them both using my leg as a climbing frame! – ouch!!!) Wilf Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in …
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Long Weekend in Harrogate – Saturday
Looking out of the Band B window, it’s another rainy-day ahead! So, a lazy breakfast followed by the short walk into town armed with our big umbrella. The plan today is to buy Ann a new fountain-pen as a belated birthday present. It’s not as cold as yesterday, but it’s still raining!!! Success, we saw …
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The 49er
It probably wasn’t the smartest of scheduling, because I managed to be working away in Germany on Ann’s birthday this year! Nice cards though – and this was our favourite…it made us giggle! Original sketch by Ronald Searle Related articles Ronald Searle at 90 (drawn.ca) Interview with cartoonist Ronald Searle (boingboing.net) Ronald Searle – a …
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The Cats are 5 today!
It’s official, Biscuit IS a lap-cat!!! ..but only under specific conditions: 1. Only if one of us is sitting on the settee, not on a chair, not in the kitchen….just the settee and the front-room 2. Only if it’s on the right hand side. 3. Only if she feels like it Cats huh! Bon-Bon meanwhile …
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BayField House – Day One
We had a horrendous night’s sleep on the ship (as we thought we would) because of the sea conditions. It seemed to be that we woke every few minutes or so, to coincide with every violent twist and turn of the Ship. However, we were still up-and-about by 7.30 finishing off our last minute packing …
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Paul’s ’50th Birthday’ get-together
The party weekend continues! We popped round to Paul and Karen’s just after 3pm where Karen had prepared lashings of great food including some very tasty meatballs – my favourite – and a rather potent sherry and brandy trifle – probably the best trifle I’ve tasted in years! I guess there must have been around …
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The Party Season Begins…
We drove over the Leicester to pick-up Ann’s 25th Anniversary present – jewellery!! However on impulse, we decided not to go back to Goldsmith’s where we’d seen some nice stuff last week – instead we dropped into George Tarratt just down the road from Ann’s office as they had a much better range (with some …
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Because I’m Worth(ing) it…
We travelled down to Worthing to see Ian and Sharon. ‘Plan A’ was to attend the Foster Carers’ annual bash, but for some reason it had been cancelled and moved to early next year. Still, we already had Edwardian Dreams B and B booked, so we thought we’d make a weekend of it anyway. FridayWe …
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Angela’s 60th Birthday Party
We travelled down to Isleworth today for Angela’s 60th birthday party – yes, I know, her birthday was in February! It’s quite a long drive from home, so we arranged to pick-up Denise and Steve in Bedford who’d also been invited – it would have been daft them doing the journey too as they’re so …
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Gill’s 50th
We drove over to Gill’s for her 50th lunch buffet and got there about 12.45. About 40-50 people came in total, but we only really knew Steve and Denise. It was a good lunch spread with plenty of variety. We met Gill’s Mum, Joan, who I’d met many years ago- but couldn’t remember where or …
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Downtown to meet up with Denis and Mae
Nick and Celina left after breakfast; we had a quick clear-up and then headed up the A1 to Downtown. It was another gorgeous day here – just like yesterday – and it seemed to keep the roads pretty empty, so we were there in no time. It’s Mae’s 65th today and we met there because …
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Rosi’s Get-Together for Ann’s Birthday
It was really great of Rosi to offer to host a get-together to celebrate Ann’s Birthday. We don’t need much of an excuse to meet-up with the neighbours – so this was just perfect!! We took Karen and Paul with us for the short drive and we arrived there about 7.45. All the gang was …
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Ann’s Birthday
I can’t remember the last time I WASN’T around for Ann’s Birthday – in fact, it’s never happened before. I’m not sure how I ended up scheduling myself to work today! Still, Nicki has been with us for the past two days and they’ve had great fun doing ‘girly-stuff’ in my absence. Pressy-wise, I bought …
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