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.
Biscuit in for a Bath/Loft sorted/Knackered TV/Gardening
We took Biscuit along for her regular ‘wash and brush-up’ today. I finally finished tidying up the loft. We dumped the CRT TV in the kitchen, as it hasn’t been working for ages and it gives us an excuse to look out for a cheap flat-screen TV with Freeview some time later this year. Ann …
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Loft Handed – Part III
Bob returned to carrying on boarding out the loft. An excellent job, but I think we might need even more of it boarded-out after last Sunday’s mega-tidy-up Still, as it currently is, it allowed me to moved all my techy hardware from the top of the wardrobe into the loft as well as all the …
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100,000 mile Mondeo!
Well, today saw the Mondeo clock up 100,000 miles! It hit exactly 100,000 somewhere between the station and home after dropping Ann off for work. It’s been a really reliable car (apart from the alternator problems a while back), and still goes like a rocket!!!
Cancer – update
We heard from Jo this morning that the hospital has discovered that Janet’s cancer HASN’T spread and is confined to the local area of her leg. That’s great news (if there can be great news in these situations!). Hopefully, we’re going to get down and see her this weekend!
25 Years Blog – Sainsbury’s
Travelled to London today to meet Ann. The company has invited her to a small do, on-site, to celebrate her twenty-five years with them. Ann as presented with her Mont Blanc watch. I met Marilyn from Stafford and Irene from Cymbran on our table with their respective partners. I also got to meet JK – …
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Cancer
We heard this week that our great friend Janet has been diagnosed with bone cancer. :((((( The treatment will start almost immediately – chemo and stuff. It’s going to be horrible for her and they’ll be a lot of pressure on her partner Jo to keep it altogether. I can’t imagine how we’d cope with …
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Loft Handed – Part II
As planned, I spent the morning in the loft, tidying up, throwing out and generally tidying up in preparation for Bob’s visit sometime this week coming to complete the boarding job. They started the job last Thursday. It looks 1000% better already – and that’s with only half of it boarded out! We can see …
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The Cable Guy/Karen’s Birthday Meal
Reconnected the external aerial to the HiFi today (because the aerial guy had connected the down-cable to the socket near the TV rather than the original circuit behind the glass cabinet). It meant running a length of co-ax along the outside back wall to save lifting the carpet up to conceal it. It took longer …
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Meal out with David and Val
We went out for a meal with David and Val as part of our normal four-weekly visit to local restaurants. This time we went to ‘The Thornhill Arms’ in Rushton. A fantastic starters and main-course menu although the desserts selection was a bit ordinary (but tasty). It was very busy – even though the weather …
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Loft Handed – Part I
Bob and his Polish friend boarded out another chunk of the loft today. It hasn’t been touched since Bob did the original boarding back in 1996. It’s been a job that has been needed to be done for ages! I’ll be up there on Sunday, moving stuff around in preparation for Bob’s second visit to …
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Long weekend in Bath – Day 3
We had a great run back to Ralph and Karen’s even though the weather was atrocious as we left Bath. We got back to theirs by around 12.30 and after a quick cuppa we were on out way back home at 1.30. We should be home by 3.30…
Long weekend in Bath – Day 2
We were up around 8 this morning. The weather looked a bit overcast, but that won’t affect our day too much as we’re off to the Spa at 11 for a number of treatments followed by two hours using the other Spa facilities. Wow! What an experience! The spa pool was great – really warm …
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Long weekend in Bath – Day 1
We had a lay-in until 8.15! The ‘full-English’ breakfast went down a treat setting us up for day’s shopping! Mooched around Bath town and had a really productive day. Ann bought a lovely blue topaz ring and I managed to get my two aerial connectors for the radio aerial at home and a mid-length Barbour …
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Long weekend in Bath – Day 0
We left home at around 2.10 heading for Ralph and Karen’s. We had a much better journey to theirs than we expected given that it is a Bank Holiday Friday! We arrived just before 3.45 and left for Bath around 5. We arrived at the hotel – The Tasburgh House Hotel – bang on 7pm. …
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The Plasma TV arrives…
I suppose, I’ll look back on this Blog in future years and giggle at this ‘latest technology’, but right now, it’s the best TV AND picture I think I’ve ever seen!!! At around 2.40, John Lewis arrived with the package. A surprisingly slim box that was easy to open although I don’t reckon we’ll be …
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Bye-Bye Toshiba CRT TV…
For us, (well, me actually!), this is a sad moment. The TV rental company (Cottons of Peterborough) picked up the Pioneer 36″ TV today. This is to make way for our shiny new 42″ plasma Panasonic that’s coming tomorrow. I guess it’s sad, because I’ve been with the TV rental company for as long as …
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Super Shopping Day in Newcastle
Nicki, Ann and I took the train to Newcastle to do some serious shopping. As it turned out, it was more productive that we thought. With Nicki’s help, Ann managed to pick up a number of dresses – the sort she had been looking for for ages! However, the biggest bargain of the day was …
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Sally for lunch/Nicki here for the weekend!
I met Sally B for lunch at Brown’s in Cambridge. We worked on developing a ‘building rapport’ session that we can both use as part of our Course portfolio. Nicki’s joined us for the weekend – brilliant! We’re off to Mazza’s tonight and taking the train to Newcastle tomorrow for some ‘retail therapy’.
Super TV
After looking at the TVs in John Lewis last weekend, we plan to replace ours sometime soon. I also took some time out to look at Karen and Paul’s new HD TV. Excellent stuff – a Sony Bravia 40″. Fantastic picture quality!
Jaguar clock fixed!
Finally, Jaguar have managed to solve the problem with the car-clock losing time. They’ve replaced the unit that was malfunctioning. Quite why it took them so long to decide that was the best thing to do, I’ll never know, but at least it’s fixed! That’ll now save me 1 minute a day not having to …
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Productive Saturday!
Another glorious weekend, weather-wise… Phew! Drove over to Peterborough to get my hair cut. Came back. We then took Bon-Bon to the pussy parlour (first time the two cats have been apart) for a bath, dry and brush. Drove back to Peterborough. Stopped off at Jane and Mick’s for a quick coffee. We then went …
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Staying away (Day 2)
Angela took me to a good Nepalise Restaurant tonight in Isleworth called ‘Everest 53’. I had the smooooooooothest 🙂 Lamb Korma I’ve ever tasted. Excellent!
Staying away (Day 1)
I’m staying away for a few days on behalf of one of my clients near Heathrow. Angela C kindly agreed to put me up for the two ‘overnights’. In return, we went to the ASK restaurant in Kew and I picked up the tab. We were VERY impressed with the food but more especially the …
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Phew, what a scorcher!
It must have been the hottest day of the year today! The weatherman said it was 23…but it felt much hotter – more like 33!!! We therefore had a lazy day although we didn’t get a chance to finish watching ‘The Prestige’ The time just seemed to fly today and Johnny and Mel stayed for …
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Johnny and Mel staying with us
Johnny and Mel arrived last night to stay with us for the weekend. We had a lazy breakfast and then Ann and Mel went to the local beauty parlour for some pampering whilst Johnny and I chewed the fat about the state of the world today! We then had a salad lunch in the garden …
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Life on Mars – Last ever episode
A really good, thought provoking final episode tonight. Excellent stuff! Can’t wait for the new series ‘Ashes to Ashes’. Here is what Digital Spy had to say:- “The final episode of Life on Mars managed an audience of 7 million viewers for BBC One last night.The 9pm show was watched by 28% of the audience …
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Busy Easter Weekend – Day IV
Today, we helped Lee and Bertie move back to their caravan. We needed to take two cars because there was so much stuff to take back and Lee wasn’t up for driving (yet) after her operation – and she wasn’t going to let Bertie drive (much to his annoyance!) We had a superb journey there …
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