Category:Holiday

We heard from Lee today. If all goes according to plan, she’ll be moving into her new place in Kettering on the 8th May. 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 …
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Lee moved out of ours today, travelling home to give-notice to her land-lord. She’ll leave her place in Cromer in around a month’s time and move permanently to Kettering, having found a nice two-bedroomed place a few miles away from us. Phase 2 will be to consider moving Humberto from the Care-Home in Cromer to …
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That was nice! David and Val invited us round to look at some of the Wedding photos from last weekend. It was also the last time they’ll see Lee before she (temporarily) moves out this week. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into …
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I managed to track down a really useful FREE update for my Co-Pilot sat-nav software installed on my phone today. Amongst the usual raft of performance mods, I also found some genuinely useful and practical features too! Live fuel prices. The sat-nav works out where you are and lists all the nearby fuel stations and …
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We walked all of three-yards tonight to one of our closest eateries! – Paul and Karen’s! Rosi and David joined us and so did Debbie and Stefan – and we all prepared to be fed and watered in grand style. We started off with sparkling wine and caught up with all the gossip – and …
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Image via Wikipedia           Phew! A week or so ago, I’d posted that I had mostly got my head round the imminent techy changes at Google, that meant my Blogs would have to be physically ‘moved’. This was due to some behind-the-scenes changes in the way Blogger manages the uploading of …
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Excellent news! The two-bedroomed town-house that we looked at a week or so ago for Lee is the one!  She put a deposit on it today and hopefully, be in by the beginning of May. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my …
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  Today has been a day for meeting and eating! This morning I headed off to The George in Stamford to meet Eric, and then Lee and I drove into town to look at an apartment for her. Finally, late afternoon, I took the train to London and met up with Philip, Carey and Angela …
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I met up with my friend Eric, who’s a film producer, today at The George in Stamford. I’m normally pretty good at keeping in touch, but I can’t find an entry for the last time we met like this – so it must be more than six years ago before I started blogging. Having said …
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A while ago, I mentioned that due to some techy changes at Google, I’d have to move my Blog to a new address within Blogger – owned by Google – otherwise all postings would cease after May 1st. I did the migration exercise last night and (touch wood) everything seems to have gone smoooooothly. So, …
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Phew! Well that didn’t take long. I’ve managed to install all the necessary software on my new NetBook and it’s all fine! I’m sooooo pleased that everything is now back to normal after ‘wobbly Sunday’ Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my …
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Some of you will just be old enough to remember the original Polaroid camera. Remember how we all marvelled at the fact it could print pictures instantly? For younger readers, this was in pre-digital days and the Polaroid was a true miracle, because the only other way to get your pics developed was to rush …
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Hello world! 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 the art of writing seemed to be the perfect combination to contribute a few words to …
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It’s been a constant companion of mine now for nearly 18 months , but yesterday, it finally had enough of being shoved into dark places, left in training rooms all alone and forced to travel in the luggage area on planes! At 3pm yesterday it was fine – windowing away nicely, thank-you. By 5pm, this …
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After dropping the cats back, Lee and Ann went flat-hunting in Kettering. The reality is, we think, that Humberto will never come out of the care-home. So, our suggestion is that Lee will move out of Cromer once she has found somewhere suitable round here. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not …
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BA is NOT our favourite airline! Over the years they’ve consistently managed to fall well below our expectations whenever we’ve flown with them. Against better judgement, we chose to travel with them for our recent holiday to Barbados. When the return journey went t***-up and we had to find another way to get home, they …
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I was out all day in London. Meanwhile, Ann and Lee performed miracles in the kitchen. The gang arrived just after 7 and as a result, we stuffed ourselves silly on all the homemade grub that had been prepared. Scrummy!!! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until …
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I drove over to Market Harborough today to meet-up with my friend Dave B. We’d tried to meet back in early December, but the appalling traffic for Dave as he headed south on the M1 meant I ran out of time waiting for him. We parked up at the top of the high-street in Market …
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At last, the white stuff has gone from around here! 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 the art of writing seemed to be the …
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We met at John Lewis in Peterborough and it seemed that the whole of Cambridgeshire was having lunch at the same time as us! Busy or what??? I can’t believe it was October 2008, when we last saw each other. What with work commitments and the awful weather, we’ve only now got around to meeting-up! …
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Lee is staying with us indefinitely. She needs some tlc whilst she comes to terms with Bertie being admitted into a old-folks home. 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), …
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Thursday 7 January 4.00am local time. Well, here we are. Still. After yesterday’s announcement that our flight today has been cancelled, we’re still no further forward. The BA Helpline sent us on a wild mongoose chase to the Airport, whilst the Airport advised us to return to our B and B and ‘ring this number’. …
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Again, there is no hot water this morning. Perhaps it’s part of the process to get us acclimatised to the UK weather, when we return! Today we’re took a drive to Bridgetown, which was very nice – that’s when we got a text from BA saying our flight home had been cancelled due to bad …
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Arghhh! – no hot water again this morning!! Ralph beat me talking with the owner, Trevor, about getting it sorted out. This is getting silly, we’ve asked three times now to ask for the problem to be resolved. Hopefully, tomorrow, will be a hot-water day! We’re all slightly grumpy now!!!! After breakfast, we set off …
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We were up slightly later this morning and had breakfast around 9.30. I seem to left the fever part of my cold behind to be replaced with feeling totally bunged-up! (too much detail!!!!) 11.00am. We’re to explore the north part of the island today – the Parish of St Lucy. We started off at Speightstown …
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I was up about 7am after a restless night where my sore throat turned into a chesty cough! (great!!) After a hearty breakfast, and a ‘planning meeting’, we decided to take a picnic and head for the east-coast. Ann’s driving today with Karen navigating, whilst we heckle from the back! 🙂 Trevor is cooking tonight, …
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We slept in slightly later – but we were up at 7.30 mainly due to the noise of the Ship docking. I then spent an hour-or-so ringing round wishing happy new year to those that were up-and-about. A lazy day is planned. I’ve picked up a sore throat from somewhere (probably the smoke from all …
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