I drove over to Peterborough today to catch-up with Alison W for lunch. We headed for The Granary and I was pretty impressed with myself, navigating around the menu and not compromising my Lent List. We caught up with others’ news and generally put the world-to-right – it was then that I noticed that my …
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Mother’s Day comes Early!
With Mum’s health on a slow decline and with us not being able to see her on the official Mother’s Day, we visited her today. On the way there, we dropped in to Neil and Debbie, caught up with all their news, saw the boys and left Neil with couple of knackered PCs. Then it …
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Food – Fit for a Queen
We drove up to Belton today to meet up with Ralph and Karen – The Queen’s Head was our destination, as it’s about half-way between theirs and ours – the food’s pretty good too! We’d been advised by the restaurant to get there in good time as there was a large party arriving just before …
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Leicester – A Ring, A Pig and a Cutlery Set!
It’s Saturday, and nothing that a DoDO likes more after a hard week’s washing, ironing, car valeting and IT Support than a quiet sit-down with the papers. Forget that then! – it was off to Leicester for a mega-shop – and when I say ‘mega’, Ann’s leading the charge today, so it’ll be a biggy! …
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Lunch at the Wheatsheaf
Ralph and Karen dropped in and together with Lee, we headed for The Wheatsheaf at Titchmarsh for Sunday lunch. You can’t go wrong there – the service is always excellent and the food is well above average! Yummy!!! Steve PalmerI got into blogging quite late in life, not publishing my first post until 2004 – well …
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Bev’s here
FRIDAY Bev joined us for the weekend. It was nibbles and wine on Friday night in preparation for her marathon shopping expedition with Lee, Jane and Ann on Saturday – I’m acting as just the taxi service! 🙂 SATURDAY Up with the lark and down to the station for 7.30am (!!!) as the girls headed …
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Ferry good lunch!
I met up with Alison W – from my Nokia days – at The Granary in Ferry Meadows, Peterborough for lunch today. We’d been there a couple of times before, but today was a slightly surreal experience as the staff were all dressed in strange outfits. Our waitress, was dressed as… well, we weren’t quite …
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The Last Day of Summer?
Cor, what a(nother) scorcher! Surely today, with temperatures hitting 30 degrees, this must have been the last day of the really good weather. A busy and important day ahead. We set off early – around 8.30 – Lee stayed behind as her back was playing-up, and dropped into Neil and Debbie’s first for a catch-up. …
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Meal with David and Val
David and my starter – pork pie, cheeses, chutney, biscuits, ham, warm crusty bread and something green We went to The Lamport Swan tonight for our monthly meal with David and Val. It must be our fifth or sixth visit there – a first visit for D and V – and it seems to get …
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Lunch: Cox’s Yard
I drove over to Stratford-upon-Avon today to meet up with my good friend, Ian McLean. Trying to get into the town centre on a Friday AND park the car, was always going to be a problem, so we walked from Ian’s to Cox’s Yard, and found a watering-hole that overlooked the river. Initially, a good …
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Meal with Ian and Mags
Our three-monthly catch-up saw us frequenting The Swan at Lamport (or is it the Lamport Swan?) tonight. We haven’t been there since the last time we three got together back in December 2008 and I think we’d all forgotten how good the food was. I arrived around the same time as Mags and Ian followed …
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Lunch with Karen and Ralph
We drove up to The Queen’s Head in Belton today for lunch with Karen and Ralph. We haven’t been back there since 2010, and it’s a good ‘halfway-house for us all. It was good to catch-up, as we haven’t seen them since the Wedding! The weather was atrocious, going there and coming back (will it …
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Birthday Girl
It’s Ann’s birthday today and together with Lee, we’re off to the Fortescue Arms in Billingborough to meet up with Denis, Bev and her bf, Liam for a celebratory lunch. It’s certainly doesn’t seem like a year ago that we were all at Club Diana in Wellingborough celebrating Ann’s ‘significant one’!!! Where has the past …
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Lunch: The Granary, Peterborough with Alison
I met with Alison W, today at The Granary, Peterborough. We haven’t seen each other since July, last year and it was good to catch-up with each other’s news. As I’m trying to stick to my Lent List, I navigated successfully around the menu, avoiding the banned substances, and settling for chicken, whilst Alison chose …
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Family Lunch – The George, Buckden
What a change in the weather! After worrying about the lawn drying-out over the past month or so, today began and ended with: rain, rain and more rain!For lunch, we headed over to The George at Buckden. We’d been there a few times before, so we were confident the food was going to be good. …
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Meal with Ian and Mags: The Encore
I drove over to Stratford-upon-Avon to meet up with Ian. He’d asked for my help with a thorough review of all his technology. We aimed to determine what he needed to integrate his music, data files, photographs in the most efficient way in preparation for his retirement – we also talked about the best sort …
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Cats in/Oundle Mill
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Did you hear the screams? Attempting to get Biscuit and Bon-Bon in their respective cat carriers, so we can take take them for grooming, seems to becoming a more stressful event. They obviously associate the site of the cat-carriers as something …
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Birthday Lunch for Lee
We dropped into The Wheatsheaf at Titchmarsh today as a treat for lee’s Birthday (which was yesterday). The place was (unusually) very quiet when we got there at 12.45, but by 1.30 it was chock-a-block. It’s always been a busy place, but apparently, the Pub down the road closed down recently leaving The Wheatsheaf as …
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Oxford/Rosi’s Party
Gosh, we haven’t been to Oxford for ages! We left around 8.30, had a good run, and caught the park-and-ride into the city centre (that’s me on a bus TWICE this year!!!!). A quick look round the shops (where I got my dress shoes for the wedding and a couple of pairs of jeans) and …
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Cats in../Shuckburgh Arms
The cats went in for their normal ‘wash-and-brush-up’ today. I’m so glad we changed the cycle from six weeks to four – their winter coat (especially Bon-Bon’s) has already become a total mess in less than a month! Patsy and Sheila did a great job on them both – especially Bon-Bon – they didn’t even …
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Saturday in London – Ann’s Night at the Opera (Part 2)
After a hearty breakfast in the hotel, we headed off towards the Tube switching into tourist mode (sharpening elbows and deleting ‘excuse me’ from our personal dictionary). Weather-wise, it’s a lovely warm day down here – perfect! First stop was the V and A. We haven’t been there for quite a few years, and it …
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Planet of the Ape(thorpe)
Nicki joined us today and after the girls popped to the bra shop (it’s not really my thing), we headed off to Apethorpe Hall, a newly opened (and currently being restored) property about half an hour away located at the ‘back-of-beyond’ in the village of (spookily) Apethorpe! On arrival, there were already about half a …
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Lunch with Denise – Not Quite!
I popped over to Bedford today, to catch-up with Denise M. August seems to be the month for lunching – I could quite get used to this and it certainly beats working!!! It’s all part of my improved (hopefully) try-and-keep-more-in-touch-with-friends routine. I haven’t seen Denise since Gill’s party and our get together at The Black …
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Photo shoot II – Insignia
It was an early morning – even by my standards (3.45am!) – and the plan was to take some more shots of the car and make the most of the summer, specifically to catch the Sun rising. God and the BBC weather-team, however, had other ideas – and it was a misty start, and no …
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Sunday Lunch at The George, Buckden
Another sunny day here, so we took a leisurely drive over to the Pub/Restaurant today. We met up with David and Val who were already in the area as they’re spending a few days on their boat at Buckden Marina. The food and service were just as we remembered The George from our first visit, …
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Lunch with Steve S
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Steve popped round and we headed off to Hobson’s Choice in Kettering for a catch-up. Unbelievably, I haven’t seen him since November last year – a sure sign it’s been a busy year! We’re going to try and squeeze another one in before the Wedding (famous last words!!!) …
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Lunch at ‘The Windmill’
I drove over to Peterborough to catch-up with Alison W. As a change from lunching at John Lewis, as we normally do, we headed for The Windmill in Orton Waterville, for a change. Well, it was certainly different. The first of which was hardly any customers! Strange really, as it’s a …
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Five Go Mad on the River (sort of!)
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr ‘The Boys’ – Ian, Roger, Ralph, David and me met up today for a river trip to The Cock in Hemingford Grey– a sort of Stag Do minus the Stagness. By car, it would have taken just 10 minutes, but by boat, it was much more leisurely! Brilliant!!! …
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Five for The Wheatsheaf
We picked up Jo and Janet tonight and headed for our fave restaurant – The Wheatsheaf at Titchmarsh. It had been a particularly busy and stressful week for us all, and this was the perfect antidote. Having just got the car back from the Vauxhall Body Shop, it was now looking immaculate. Then it rained… …
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Photo Shoot
I was up with the lark this morning (what a surprise!). I picked up John W and we headed to Burton Latimer for a photo shoot featuring my new car. We wanted to make best use of the natural early-morning light. More piccys to follow, but here’s one that makes it look really eco friendly …
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