Went to Bicester today for some retail therapy and to meet up with Nicki. An ‘interesting’ journey as the main road to Bicester was closed due to the British Grand Prix being held at Silverston. Spent a fortune though! I forced myself to buy NINE shirts and a jacket…and I think Ann did better than …
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Reunion Blog
Attended the annual reunion of my School today. There was a pretty good turn out – around 100 and everyone had a good time even though we all know that the scholl is going to be closed next year 🙁 But what a c*** journey there. I left at 9.45 in the morning and arrived …
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Great Track!
I’ve not really got into Natasha Bedingfield’s music, but I heard ‘Soulmate’ playing on Radio 2 on the way back from Scotland last week, so I ordered the single from Amazon.
Queenie’s 90th Birthday Lunch
We had a bit of a lie-in in Mum’s guest suite at the flat. Caught up with the newspapers and a few Mags and then it was off to Queenie’s Birthday Lunch – a short drive away at Brasted. The journey was made more difficult by major roadworks in the area forcing us to take …
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Mum’s Birthday Meal
We took Mum and Queenie to the ‘Beefeater Crown’ at Bromley Common for their Birthday Meal and met up with Debbie, Neil and the Kids there. Food was excellent (as it was last time!) We nearly got away with a very cheap bill at the end as ‘Steph’ our waitress charged another table’s bill to …
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Doctor Who – Season 3 Finale
So, it’s the last in the series tonight. No preview tapes have been distributed by the BBC and three alternative endings have been shot, just to ensure no-one knows how it will really end! Rumours abound, Daleks returning, the Doctor regenerating again and/or Martha being abducted by aliens. Great stuff..and even more exciting in that …
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Meal with David and Val
We went to ‘The Falcon’ at Fotheringhay with David and Val as part of our normal monthly-meal-out with them. It’s now changed hands and I’d say that the food was almost as good as it used to be whilst the excellent service levels were as before….
Business trip to Scotland
I spent the day at my clients in Daventry. I then travelled up to Scotland with John M for some work for the same client (planned for the following day) at a training centre in Edinburgh. Luckily, JM did all the driving. It was a long one and the weather was atrocious! We hit some …
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Bev for lunch
Spent most of the morning processing the pics from yesterday’s wedding. Popped over to Tom and Julie’s to try to sort out their DreamWeaver problem. No luck, but I have an idea for next time! Bev popped down to join us for lunch. It was good to see her! Nice phone Bev!!! 👍 Roast lamb …
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Wedding Blog
We went over the Stratford upon Avon today as official photographers for Ian’s eldest daughter’s (Caroline’s) Wedding. She married Dermot in the town’s Registry Office and then off to Alveston Pastures Farm, Loxley for the Reception.A great day although the weather was very challenging from a photography point-of-view (it p***ed down on and off all …
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Stafan’s Birthday Meal
We met at Debbie and Stefan’s together with Karen (Paul was away, golfing), Rosi and David and Bobby and Stella (S and D’s neighbours-but-one). Fiona arrived to baby-sit. Weather was horrible! We needed an umbrella to get from S and D’s to the taxi – 2 yards away!!! Ahhh, the British Summer. 🙂 A few …
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Passive – Moi?
Met up with Lydia E today in Leicester Square, London to discuss improving my understanding of ‘passive writing’ and how to avoid it. Gosh, I haven’t been there for many years. We had a coffee just off Leicester Square and then headed for China Town for a buffet lunch! The weather was excellent, and I …
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Burghley House and Nick and Celina’s for Dinner
We drove over the Burghley House today to meet Nick & Celina. We spent most of the afternoon at Burghley. It’s certainly changed since we last looked round it in detail. They’ve added (amongst other things) ‘The Surprise Garden’, a kind of water based area with fountains and obelisks etc – nice! The entrance area …
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Meal at ours with Paul and Sue
Paul and Sue came round – we haven’t seen them for almost a year and it was great to catch – and moan about getting old(er)! :))) A strange event at the end of the evening involving the cats though. It was about 11ish and we heard one of them making a hell of a …
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Myers-Briggs
I met Sally B for lunch today at Brown’s in Cambridge. We agreed that instead of just eating and drinking and passing the time of day, we would also add in an element of personal development too! Sally kicked off my explaining the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to me (MBTI). Fascinating stuff. Apparently, I’m an ‘E-S-F-J’ …
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Biscuit and Bon Bon – 2 years on…
Well, here we are now TWO years with Biscuit and Bon-Bon. They’re always pleased to see us when we’ve been out working. They always greet us at the lobby door and they have both found their voices! Biscuit tends to be the more vocal of ther two (still!) Since re-siting the cat-tower to the dining …
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National Trust/Denby/Jan update
We took a drive to ‘Calke’, a National Trust property in Derbyshire. What makes this one different is that it’s been left exactly as it was found – in a semi-ruined state. Apparently, the owners gradually ran out of cash and it was handed over to the NT in 1984. The Harpur-Crewes were very eccentric …
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First recording from TV to PC
I suppose I’ll look back on this blog in years to come and giggle at the simplicity of it all! Having now got my USB Freeview stick to work on the PC downstairs and having acquired some video editing and conversion software this brings a whole new range of possibilities in terms of portable entertainment. …
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Beautiful Saturday
A beautiful day today. It must have been into the mid-twenties. Hot or what? Ann sorted out the garden whilst I gave both the cars a major spring clean. We went to Karen and Paul’s for dinner. Debbie and Stefan were there too. Karen created a chicken and fig main course and Ann produced her …
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TV Breakthrough on the PC!
This is excellent! I borrowed-back my plug-in USB Freeview tuner from John M who I’d given it to because I couldn’t get it to work. However, since we had the new digital aerieal installed, it now works fine. I also managed to download some clever software that allows me to record TV Programmes to the …
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Jo and Janet for late lunch
We invited Jo and Janet round for a late lunch. Janet goes into Hospital tomorrow for the second of her chemo treatments. She’ll be ‘in’ for three to four days. Fingers crossed!
June is 50 in June!
We went to June P’s 50th Birthday Party in Sutton (Sutton FC’s ground). A lot of familiar faces there including Angela, Antoinette, Paul and Rick. We stopped off at Mum’s on the way through. We decided to get home by coming through London. Boy, was it busy..even at midnight!!!! Got home at 2.15am!!!!!
Lunch with Steve
Steve S popped over and we went out to lunch. He’s decided to supplement his income by doing garden maintenance. So far, it’s keeping him really busy!!! Nice one Steve…
All the Ds!
Off to the Dentist and to Denise’s in Bedford for a catch-up and lunch.
Weekend Away – Day 3
Today, it’s raining again and so it looks like we’ll do very little today – suits us! A good hearty breakfast and a lightish lunch! – All in all, a perfect weekend apart from the weather (which, as we left, started to brighten up…typical!!) We got home around 4pm
Weekend Away – Day 2
A really lazy day today, helped by the fact that it rained ALL day! We took a short drive to ‘Van Hage’s’ a local gigantic garden centre nearby. For the rest of the day we just ate, drank and caught up with the newspapers. We watched ‘Black Book’ on DVD. It’s about Nazi occupied Holland …
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Weekend Away – Day 1
Typical Bank Holiday weather – grey with rain! We took Mum to lunch at ‘The Crown’. It was excellent! We then took her to the Churchill Theatre to see ‘The Rat Pack’. I’ve seen them before in London and they were excellent! We then left for Roger, Jane and Oliver’s for the rest of the …
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Doctor Who Series 3 Mid-Season Trailer
My favourite trailer from the current Doctor Who series… 🙂 Especially that spooky drumming towards the end by ‘Mr Saxon’
Speedy Blog – neuf points!!
Bugger! Bugger! Bugger! Looks like I got caught today by a speed cameral driving through Wellngborough. That’ll be nine points on my Licence then in total. It’s a pesky nuisance because since the last time I got caught, and having attended Northamptonshire’s ‘Speed Workshop’, I’ve been a changed driver! A monetary lapse in concentration and …
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Ex T4T Meal
I met up with Ian and Mags tonight for our regular three-monthly ‘catch-up’ This time, we went to ‘The Halford Bridge’ in Halford, a small village in Shipston-on-Stour. It was great to catch-up. Ian’s just back from Oz and Mags had just completed a charity run for cancer research.