We returned to our fave Indian Restaurant – The Exotic Dining – with David and Val tonight. It was the busiest we’d ever seen it on a Thursday night (although it still wasn’t full) – we also saw Bev R there with a work colleague. Ironically, when we tried to use our ‘2 for 1/4 …
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Nails, Nibbles and Nice Friends
We’re now both getting over our respective colds, so it was good to be able to get out for some fresh air and catch-up with friends. First stop was into town and the newly renovated and pedestrianised Market Street. Boy, it’s changed round here since I last looked – in …
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Saturday is for… socialising
A busy, but very enjoyable day socialising today! We picked up Nick and Celina at around 11.30 and headed off to The Olive Branch in Clipsham for lunch. it was our first visit there, although Nick and Celina had been before. Wow! what a treat!!!! The …
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Meal at the Finch’s Arms
Time for our monthly meal with David and Valerie. This time it was a visit to Finchs Arms in Hambleton, Oakham – our first visit. It’s a 17th Inn with a small Bar and a largish Restaurant. David agreed to drive, and with it getting darker much earlier now, it felt like a really long …
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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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Exotic again
We dropped into The Exotic Dining tonight with Jo and Janet. It’s currently our fave Indian Restaurant for the quality of the food (and the 2-for-1 vouchers help!). We last went there back in July, but it’s felt like we haven’t been there for ages! As always, the service and the food was excellent and …
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Olympic Weekend – Sunday
Well this is THE main reason we’re in London – the Olympic Closing Ceremony which starts at 7.30 tonight. 09.30am: The day started well with us heading down to the restaurant to be greeted by about the most positive and energetic person I think I’d ever met (at breakfast anyway !) Dwayne, clearly was …
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Olympic Weekend – Saturday
We caught the 9.56 from Kettering into St Pancras International for our once-in-a-lifetime Olympic weekend. We were lucky enough to secure four tickets for the Closing Ceremony and we’re meeting Ralph and Karen as soon as we arrive . The train arrived on time and as we trundled into St Pancras, we only waited a …
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Curry in a Hurry
Ann’s Lamb Tikka – Yum Yum! Our regular monthly meal out with David and Val saw us returning to The Exotic Dining Indian restaurant in town with a subtle difference – no Val and initially, no Ann. I’d got the dates mixed up and Val was elsewhere on a work-thing and Ann had got caught …
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That’s a Nice Pear!
Stop tittering at the back! We normally don’t do spontaneous – unless it’s in the diary – but we decided to drop into The Exotic Dining Indian Restaurant in town as part of our cunning plan to make maximum use of the ‘2-for-1’ vouchers that we purchased a while back. We were early, even by …
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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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London Calling – 1
I headed for London this afternoon, to meet up with Carey, Antoinette and Angela. We’ve booked a table at one of our favourite haunts – ‘EV’ (part of the Turkish ‘TAS’ restaurant chain) near Waterloo. Well, it was great to catch-up, and seemed like ages since we’d done this (it wasn’t that long ago!). The …
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The Palmichael
We had a great time last night at The Palmichael. We can’t believe we’ve been in Kettering this long and haven’t been there before now. Burton Latimer has always had a great selection of eateries, and this one sits ‘right-up-there’ in our book. Fantastic food, good service and although it’s quite pricey – you get …
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Meal at ‘Exotic Dining’
Well, we tried it out back on 10 March, and this time we had the extra incentive of the infamous ‘2for1’/’4for2’ Card! After a slightly chaotic start where they took our orders and then five minutes later, asked if we wanted poppadums (err, twice!), we were rewarded with what was probably the best Indian food …
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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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London calling…
I took the train to London this afternoon to catch up with Antoinette and Philip. The original plan to get the original ‘gang of 5ive’ together faltered slightly as the others had various bits and pieces going on in their lives that prevented them from joining us. I arrived in London around 4.30 and that …
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Lunch with Sally B
Restaurant Browns – Cambridge (Photo credit: Steve Palmer (UK)) I drove over to Cambridge today and met up with Sally B. I haven’t seen her since the Wedding and it was GREAT to catch-up. We met at Brown’s (as we nearly always do!) – the service and menu was great (as it always is!) – …
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Posh Spice – The Exotic Dining Experience
Jo, Janet, David, Val, Ann and I headed for The Exotic Dining restaurant in Kettering tonight. Cunningly hidden upstairs above the shops in Newland Street, no wonder we’d never stumbled on it before. Jo and Janet had been before, but for the rest of us, it was our first visit. A bit of prior research …
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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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A Taste of…
India! We met up with Paul and Sue at the Taste of India in Rothwell tonight. This restaurant was probably the first one we discovered when we moved to Kettering all those years ago. Since then, admittedly, we sort of forgot about it, preferring Mazza’s simply because it’s closer to home (well, at least it …
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Lunch with Denis and Bev
There’s cool weather, cold weather, freezing weather and TODAY! When Ann, Lee and I left for Lincoln, Ann’s car was saying it was –8C outside – it certainly felt like it and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so cold. As we drove a few miles through Weekley, the gauge plummeted to –11C. That’s right …
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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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A Great Meal with the Family
We don’t do this as often as perhaps we should, but after my super-hectic day running the Old Croydonians’ Association Centenary Lunch at the Selsdon Park Hotel – the meal out was the perfect tonic! Neil, Debbie, Alfie, Frankie, Mum and of course, us two, descended on Frankie and Benny’s along the A21 for 6.30. …
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The Raj
Tom and I visited the Raj in Kettering tonight. I haven’t been there for over 10 years and as we’re using it for my Stag Night, it was the perfect excuse to try it out – you can never say ‘no’ to a good curry! Tom introduced me to Gazza the owner, who has clearly …
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