We spent a large part of the day wrapping the Christmas presents. A few tree presents still to do, but I think we’ve cracked it!
Janet and Nigel
Janet and Nigel came to lunch. It’s long overdue, but it took us this long to sort out a date that worked for all of us. Janet was the breeder of our two cats. Her web site is HERE. It was great to see them both. The cats behaved themselves too!
Holiday – Day 4 (Ironbridge)
We’re taking it easy today. Unusually for Ann (VERY unusually), she was unwell during the night. We can’t determine whether it’s a bug or something she ate yesterday. We’ve mostly eaten the same things and I’m unaffected – strange! Inside, we finished the Christmas cards today – almost 200 of them! Phew! Outside, the weather …
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Holiday – Day 3 (Ironbridge)
Another lay in ’til 7. Weather looks ‘yuk’ today. Cold and wet, so it’s not really a day for site-seeing. …but it’s a perfect day for some retail-therapy!! So we headed for a largish retail park just outside of Telford and took a look around Matalan, Pets-at-Home and Tesco (in the middle of a massive …
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Holiday – Day 2 (Ironbridge)
We had a short lay-in and after breakfast, we took a walk west and took in the sites. We visited the ‘Museum of Iron’ and ‘Enginuity’ (geddit?) which was a museum designed for kids (and us!) to experience science through hands-on games and exhibits such as controlling dams and building earthquake-proof constructions etc. Finished off …
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Holiday – Day 1 (Ironbridge)
A good run in the car. We used the M6 Toll Road and it only took around and hour-and-a-half to get to Telford. An overcast day, with rain on-and-off. We spent most of the day shopping, getting the final lot of Christmas pressies in the Telford shopping centre. We’ve still got a few to get, …
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Holiday – Day 0 (Ironbridge)
We spent the weekend at Lee and Bertie’s including taking a trip to ‘our favourite town’ on Saturday – Holt. We managed to pick up a few Christmas pressys whilst we were there. A lie-in on Sunday (well, relatively, up at 6.30!). A hearty breakfast of bacon, egg and sausage and then off to North …
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Lunch and Dinner
A high pressure day! 🙂 Lunch with Sally B at ‘Browns’ in Cambridge. Then out to ‘Han’ in Market Harborough with Ann, together with Antoinette, Denise and Dave B. Antoinette had just got back from Hong Kong, Denise had just got back from a rain-soaked walking holiday and Dave B travelled down from Halifax. Phew, …
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Jaguar Service
The Jag went in for its annual service today. I couldn’t have the extra laser detector fitted to the front of the car because there was no way they could make it easy to remove for when we travel to France. Bah!!!! Currently, they’re still legal in the UK, but not in the EU. …
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Lunch with Jo, Janet, Pete and Chris
Visited Jo and Janet’s together with Chris and Pete for a very nice lunch. A full roast with chicken, pork and every conceivable vegetable possible! This was followed by Strawberry and Apple Crumble and Apricot Tart. Cheese and bickies and then more wine and coffee. We ate too much. We drank too much. We put …
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Blog swap!
Converted my existing Blogger account to the NEW version today
Garden Blog III
A very cold day here, but we needed to get out in the garden to finish off various bits and pieces – mostly the front garden this time. An hour later, we had done all we could. I reckon we’re 99.9% finsished now!!!
Spam Blog
I managed to reconfigure Ann’s email account to cut out almost 1oo% of the s-p-a-m she was getting 🙂 We’ll see how we get on…
Chinese Blog
Off to ‘Lee Gardens’ tonight which is our closest Chinese restaurant. We’ve only been once before and tonight was a spur-of-the-moment thing. Food was good, but not as good as Han (our fave Chinese in Market Harborough!). Still, the service was excellent, and it was good to go out after a busy week for both …
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Bifocal Blog
It’s official! I’m getting old!!! Boots, the Opiticians say I need vari-focals…
Fax Blog
I finally dumped the old Canon fax machine today. It’s been with me for almost all of my business life! We need the room in the office and I can’t remember the last time someone actually sent me a fax!! Anyway I’ve got Demon’s dFax service that takes incoming faxes and routes them through to …
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Printer Blog
My new colour A3+ Printer arrived today from those very nice people at DABS.com It’s the ‘Canon Pixma Pro 9000’. See the techy-spec and other excellent Canon Printers HERE I ordered it at 11am yesterday and it was delivered by 8am this morning. ..a good price too. Just under 400 quid including express delivery to …
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Garden Blog II
We had a very productive time in the back garden and the front finishing off bits and pieces. Also managed to get both cars washed and convert some movies for my iPOD
Garden Blog
Phew! We did a lot more work in the back garden today, getting it ready for Winter. It’s the front garden tomorrow!
Family Blog
Lincoln bound today! First stop: We visited Mae and Denis for coffee and a chat. Second stop: Off to Bev’s for lunch (a rather splendid turkey/peppers/onions dish with fajitas and the works). Then off for a stroll round Lincoln town. An unexpected climb (!!!) up Steep Hill (yuk!) Ann bought a nice pair of shoes …
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Gardening!
A big day in the garden today! We gave everything a good cut-back and planted up the rest of the tubs. We reckon there’s still at least another couple of weekends’ work to do!!!..plus the FRONT garden…
Flickr link
Added Flickr link to my web-site today!
OCA AGM and visit Mum, Neil, Debbie and the kids
An early start this morning..! …clear up from last night’s ‘Curry Night’! Then, off to The Old Croydonian’s Association AGM via Mum’s. The AGM finished about 2pm, then it was back to Mum’s and then out for a meal with my Brother Neil, his wife Debbie and the kids, Alfie and Frankie at around 6pm …
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Curry Night
Ann and I did one of our ‘Curry Nights’ for Tom, Julie and Paul (Karen’s away in America at the moment). We had a great time!
Britain’s Biggest Blog
The National Trust is encouraging people to record a diary of their day on a website, as part of what is being called “Britain’s biggest blog”. The blogs will then be stored by the British Library and at other locations. There are more details HERE at the History Matters website. So, here is my day…. …
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test blog
I’m uploading this Blog to see if the graphics problem is fixed. If a graphic appears above this text, then it’s all working fine 🙂
Gardening Blog
We spent most of the afternoon in the garden getting it prepared for the Winter. It took two trips to the local dump to get rid of the waste..and we’ve still got some left over – enough for a couple of dustbins full!
Rushton Hall
Went to Rushton Hall with our friends David and Val for our normal ‘four-weekly’ eat-out. What a beautiful place! It used to owned by the RNIB; now it’s a hotel and a VERY classy restaurant. The quality of the food was excellent, as was the service – but it WAS expensive. Nearly 200 quid for …
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Rick Wakeman and Jon Anderson Blog
We went to see the Rick and Jon and partly refurbished Derngate Theatre in Northampton. We learned that this is likely to be Rick’s last season of touring. As usual, Rick was excellent – a truly gifted paino player and as jovial as ever! Not really sure about Jon. ‘Yes’ was never my favourite band …
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50th Birthday Celebrations
Well, today is a day of mega-activity! We have my ‘afternoon tea’ down at the Corn Exchange, 2.30 until 5.30. There’s around 35 people coming to that. Then it’s back to the house for our themed ‘TV from the 1950s’ Party – About 35 people for that too! Looks like a load of people are …
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