Category:Holiday

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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I woke first and got up. It’s only 5.30 am here, but the time difference had completely screwed by body-clock. I had a quick shower and then went downstairs for a coffee and started to working on my backlog of reading. It was already light, the birds were singing and George (our host) pointed out …
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 Screen courtesy of mb21 Readers of a ‘certain age’ will remember a uniquely British technology that led the World, appearing on TVs in the early 70s – in fact, the service was first launched on 23 September 1974. It was called teletext and back then, it was a must-have for techy-nerds like me! In later …
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