Category:Holiday

Jo and Janet came round for a Sainsbury ready-meal Indian evening. It was a real feast. For afters, we porked-out on a variety of Sainsbury’s ice-creams! Too much curry, too much ice-cream and too much wine. Perfect!!! Wow! We were all stuffed. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post …
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  Hooray!! Finally, after a lot of faffing around (and getting nowhere), I got YouTube to work on my PDA. This involved: …and all from those very helpful people at the XDA-Developers’ web-site. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well into my 40s! My …
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Paul and Karen invited us round for dinner tonight. We haven’t done this for ages – no reason, just that everyone’s been busy and just not around. We weren’t quite sure who else was going to be there – as it turned out it was EXCELLENT! Ann created a couple of desserts – Chocolate Cheesecake …
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Re-discovered Windows Live-Writer a day-or-so ago and I’m going to try it out over the next few weeks to see if it’s worth keeping and replacing my native Blogger editing tool and ‘ScribeFire’. Initial impressions are good with a whole range of downloadable plugins to add functionality to the blogging (see below) It’s closer to …
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It’s always the way isn’t it? We’re checking-out today and the weather is the best we’ve had since we arrived! We checked-out around 11 and killed a bit of time taking a short walk to the (Scottish) National Trust’s ‘Georgian House’. Lovely! We then picked up our luggage from the Apartment and walked to the …
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We woke up to a very rainy day. After breakfast, we headed out in the pouring rain and took a longish walk to Holyrood – home of the Scottish Parliament. We couldn’t get access to much, but we did take a look round the ‘Queen’s Gallery’ that was full of some lovely pictures. We the …
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We didn’t get up until 9am!! So, after a slow getting-ready process (in spite of a lay-in, I felt shattered…drugged almost!), we planned our day. We decided to visit a number of Museums within walking distance of the Apartments. We also wandered along the ‘Royal Mile’. This was full a number highly colourful characters (literally!) …
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We left home around 6.45, leaving Lee and Bertie to house-sit. We had a good journey to Birmingham Airport and arrived about an hour later. Our flight is scheduled for 10.35, so we had plenty of time to kill before taking off. A trouble-free flight and it even landed ahead of schedule. 45 minutes later …
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Lee and Bertie are coming over to stay for a few days and cover cat-sitting duties whilst we’re away in Scotland. Ann is meeting Nicki in London and having a girlie-day-out to celebrate Nicki’s 40th that’s coming up soon. It’s Mum’s last day with us before Ann takes her back tomorrow, and her staying on …
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I’d installed FF3 on the laptop this week to try it out. It’s excellent and didn’t crash once. Not so sure it’s much faster though – although it does seem to load quicker! Based on this success, I installed it on Ann’s PC and my Dell desktop today. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late …
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Discovered ScribeFire today – wow! what an excellent program for Blogging! 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 …
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Wow! That was a surprise… David and Val said they might be moving house. 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 …
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A short walk to Jo and Janet’s for lunch today. Chris and Pete were there too and so was Carol! A brilliant lunch – we both ate far too much…but it was difficult to ignore the excellent spread!! We got back around 5.15. Porkers both!!!! Ralph’s small operation went without a hitch – that’s good …
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It’s our last day today. We woke around 5.30am, had a coffee and caught up with news. We had breakfast as normal and then started to pack. We’ll be leaving here around 16.30 to catch our plane flying at 18.10. We took a short walk down to City Hall and chilled out in the sun! …
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Our sleep pattern seems to be more normal and we slept through to 6am. Ann went to the gym, whilst I caught up with my reading and tried to work out why no emails have been getting through since Saturday. It would seem that the ‘forwarding’ part is broken at the server end! Our last …
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We woke at 5am and had coffee. We then headed for the pool and the hot-tub – lovely! He had our normal breakfast – plenty of porridge around today! It’s slightly cooler today, which’ll help if we’re out-and-about touring! At 9.45, the coach arrived to pick us up for our Niagara Falls tour. Tim was …
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We both woke up at 3am again. Strange…even when you take the time difference into account. So, time for more reading. I’m now about half-way through ‘Changeling’. What a troubled life Mike Oldfield had as a kid! Mum sectioned as well as being an alcoholic, no friends at school and not many out-of-school either! 6.15 …
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So, were up about 3am, reading and watching TV. Ann also tried out the Gym. I’m reading Mike Oldfield’s autobiography ‘Changeling’. We then had a relaxed breakfast at the hotel at around 8 o’clock and we were surprised how busy it was for a Sunday! It’s a hot day – 30°C or thereabouts and very …
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An early start, even by our standards – we arrived at Birmingham Airport at 5.15. The plane was on time and took off just after 8. We travelled with Air Transat, Club Class and it was excellent. Very attentive service and superb food too! By 3.30pm (10.30 local time) and 3600 miles later, we arrived …
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Off to Ian and Ann’s tonight for a ‘Murder-Mystery’ evening and a meal. Not sure how this’ll turn out. Originally, it was just a meal but a few weeks later, we all received separate invitations with a role to play on the night. I took the role of ‘Harry’, whilst Ann played ‘May’ and it …
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Bank Holiday weekend and we’re taking Friday off to visit Ian and Sharon in Goring-by-Sea. It’s probably better to travel today earlyish rather than try and get down there tonight when I’m sure the traffic will be heavier. Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – …
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Jo, Janet, Debbie, Stefan, Rosie, David, Karen and Paul came round for one of our Italian Evenings. As always, the food was great! (Ann did most of the cooking and I just cleared-up the mess). Everyone was in really good spirits and the fact that we hadn’t all seen each other as a group for …
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Lee and Bertie returned home today. They were all packed by 10am, and it’s fair to say that their car was ‘fully loaded’! We heard from them in the afternoon – around 2ish, so they’d had a good run back and managed to stop off in Tesco’s along the way. The house feels strangely empty …
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We left at around 7.45 to meet Nicki in Stratford. The weather looks cold and misty but that won’t stop us doing what we do best – shopping! We got to Stratford around 8.45 – Nicki arrived soon after. We parked up and had a mooch around the town. We stopped off at a couple …
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