Gill, Chris, Denise and Steve came round tonight. It was great to see them all again – it’s been a while! Ann performed miracles in the kitchen, and we enjoyed a FANTASTIC meal!!!
Mondeo Blog
Uh-oh! The ‘old’ problem with Mondeo has returned! I was on my way to Peterborough when the red battery light sprang into life on the dashboard. Car was recovered to Ford at Irthlingborough. Bugger! That’s really screwed up my Saturday!!
Brighton Blog – Day Two
We spent the whole morning exploring the shops in Brighton – they were excellent! We also revisited the Royal Pavilion having not been there for over 15 years. It was in fine condition and it look like they’ve restored some new rooms upstairs. Lunch was at Momma Cherris – made famous by Gordon Ramsey’s visit …
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Brighton Blog – Day One
We had a good journey down and after parking the car, took a walk round the town. The shops look superb – a good mix of independents and familiar faces. Every other shop seems to be a restaurant – shame! 🙂 We checked into the hotel, The Old Ship Hotel, Brighton, a four star establishment, …
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Birthday Blog – The Cats; 1 year old today
The cats celebrated their first birthday today. In human years, we’ve read that makes them 16 years old – adolescent teenagers! In the months we’ve owned them, we have seen their behaviour change quite considerably. Whether this is due to them being spayed or a part of their natural growing up process, we don’t know …
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Clean Cats Blog
Found a cat grooming place not too far away in a village called Brigstock, so the cats went in for a wash-and-brush-up today
Chinese Blog
We tried out the ‘Royal Bento’ in Wellingborough with David and Val on their recommendation. Great food!
NEC Blog
Took a drive up to the NEC in Birmingham for the ‘Travel and Destinations’ exhibition (only because we were sent some free tickets!) Very disappointing! – Ironically, for a ‘travel’ exhibition it was a nightmare to find the right hall from the car park
Jaguar Anniversary Blog
I’ve owned the Jaguar for exactly a year now. It’s probably been the most satisfying car I’ve ever owned
Angel Blog
Took the car to the Jaguar dealership at Coventry today to have the Road Angel Plus hard wired into the car.
Alloy Blog
Richard from Wicked Wheels came round to refurbish the alloy on the Jaguar. An excellent job!
South African Lunch
Kay and John came round for lunch. We decided we’d replicate a meal we’d had in South Africa when we were on holiday there. Butter-nut squash soup, Lamb with pureed vegetables, and some saucy, sweet desserts. Marvellous! Kay is off to India on business soon and John returns to Rhodesia in a fortnight’s time for …
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First 3g connection
OK, I know it’s a bit geeky, but I managed to get a 3g connection whilst I was in Croydon today. 3g is not available where I live, so it was good to try out the increased speed for surfing and email. Bugger! The Jaguar went into ‘limp home’ mode today showing ‘gearbox fault’ on …
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Angel Blog
My new Road Angel PLUS arrived today courtesy of thos very nice people at BlackSpot Interactive. Mind you, the previous version was good but now that the PLUS shows the advisory speed limit too, that for me, made it well worth the upgrade. My 6 penalty points have been because I THOUGHT I knew what …
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3g Blog
Ahh…the joys of trying to stay at the cutting edge of communication 🙂 Finally got all the software installed on my new 3g O2 XDA Executive, only to find that… 1. There’s no 3g coverage where I live2. There’s not likely to be in the near future3. O2 sent me the wrong SIM card so …
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PowerPoint Blog
Off to Sally’s today to bring her up to date with her PowerPoint skills. I managed to scuff an alloy on the way out on the Jaguar (again!). 🙁
Family Blog
Ann and I picked up Mum and met up with Neil, Debbie, Alfie and Frankie at ‘The Papadom’ in Bromley. Excellent food and it was good to catch up! Last time we all met there was almost 8 years ago!!!
Stitched Blog and Steve’s new toy
Ouch! – Took the cats in to have their stitches removed. They didn’t flinch at all – but I did! My new ‘XDA Executive’ arrived today from those very nice people at o2
Valentine Blog
A witty poetry book for me and 12 red roses and 2 CDs for Ann (‘G4’ and ‘Friends of G4’)
Elementary, my dear Blog
Spent most of the day in London’s Baker St, at the Sherlock Holmes Hotel in a meeting with Stuart and Malcolm
Bubsy Blog
One year ago since ‘Bubsy’ passed away – 🙁
Angel of the Blog
Off to Newcastle today for one of my clients. Saw ‘The Angel of the North’ statue – impressive!
Visited Denis and Mae
We took a drive to Rothwell to get me measured up for Summer suit. The Tailors, Peter Ayers, is closing in a few months, which is a real shame. He’s a talented guy, but the demand for bespoke suits just isn’t there in these parts… Then, off to ‘The Billingborough Arms’ for lunch and to …
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Kittens Spayed and Chipped
We took the kittens down to the vets to have them spayed and ‘chip and pinned’ 🙂 Ouch! Shaved tummies and 4 stitches in each. Back in two weeks ot have the stitches removed.
Physiotherapy Blog
My back seems to be getting better, which is ironic considering I’m seeing the Physio today! Karen next door has offered to drive me down to the hospital – thanks Karen – which is just as well, as the Hospital has ‘revised’ the parking scheme in the hospital grounds and upon arrival it looked like …
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NHS Blog
My back doesn’t seem to be getting any better! Tried to book an appointment with my Doctor whilst waiting to fly back last Friday, only to be told ‘ We don’t have any left until NEXT Friday! We suggest you ring again on Monday…” Tried ringing today, constantly engaged from 8.30 through ’til 9. Finally …
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Holiday Blog – Day 7 (last day)
We visited ‘uShaka SeaWorld’ in Durban, to kill some time before heading to Durban Airport and then, onto a short internal flight to Johannesburg. UShaka was good, including a Dolphin show, a magnicient unerwater aquarium. We had lunch in a restaurant that was converted from an old ship – brilliant! Once we get to J’burg, …
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Holiday Blog – Day 6
Found the local doctor yesterday (luckily just a five-minute drive away) as my back seemed to be getting worse. He gave me an injection of cortezone, which certainly did the trick (after some initial sweats and tingling in my arms and legs). We then had a great day, completely pain-free. We visited the massive ‘Gateway’ …
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Holiday Blog – Day 5
We arrived at our next destination, a Guest House called ‘The Boat House’ at around 3pm yesterday. A good journey down from Cleopatra’s, after a couple of stops en-route including Pietermaritzburg where the temperature reached 40 degrees Celsius – seriously hot! We ate in last night, and maybe not surprinsingly, the food, compared to Cleopatras, …
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Holiday Blog – Day 4
Another superb six-course menu last night introduced in all its mouth-watering glory by Richard, head Chef and owner of the place. Looks like he had also invited a lot of local chefs to the event too! The food, as expected, was SUPERB! We plan to pick up their own cook-book on departure, today. We met …
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