From AnnZip up cardigan (blue)Brown short top-coatBook – Whose Who’sBook – The Uxbridge English DictionaryBook – Ducks in a RowBook – Mother TongueBook – Talk to the HandElectronic Weather Station From MumLoads of gift vouchersFrom Roger, Jane and OliverBook – Underground London DVD – Kung Fu Hustle From Lee and HumbertoNothing this year, as they …
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Narnia Blog
Mum, Ann and I joined Jo and Janet at the local Odeon to see ‘The Chronicles of Narnia – The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe. An excellent film with good acting and superb CGI special effects. 10/10 Brilliant!
Mum for Christmas Blog
Picked up Mum for Christmas. it gave me chance to test out the Road Angel over a long journey – excellent!
Angel Blog
Ralph and I popped down to Halfords to pick up a Road Angel 2. It’s considered to be one of the best speed camera detectors on the market. We tried it out on the way to the restaurant in Keyston – The Pheasant. Perfect! it gave plenty of warning about the cameras on the journey …
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Ralph and Karen – here for the weekend
Ralph and Karen joined us for the weekend. Ralph seems to be responding exceptionally well to his radiotherapy.
Speedy Blog
Welcome to Northamptonshire! The natural habitat of ‘camerus speedius’. More speed cameras in this county than anywhere else I think !!! In amongst the Christmas Cards was a surprise pressy from Northamptonshire Police reminding me that I was caught by a mobile speed camera on Tuesday, 13th doing 41 in a 30mph zone. Bugger!! Actually, …
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Car Blog
Returned to the Jaguar dealership in Coventry today to get the power steering pump replaced (it was leaking!). Also picked up the refurbished alloy after damaging it a few weeks back
Anniversary Blog
We celebrated 21 years together today. A nice Indian takeaway and watched a good (ish) film ‘Bridget Jones 2 – The Edge of Reason’ on the SkyPlus box Got some nice pressys including ‘War of the Worlds’ 2 DVD set – excellent!
Car Blog 2
I returned to Grantham today to ‘Paintshield‘. They specialise in fitting adhesive film to the front of cars to protect the paintwork from stone chips and other debris. Needed to have some minor adjustments made to the original film application; plus, I decided to have the film applied to the headlamps too! Have you seen …
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Decorating Blog
We’ve almost finished decorating the downstairs office. Just waiting for the furniture to turn up from John Lewis. Then, I’ll install the PC with a wireless link to the network upstairs
Christmas N.O.S.E.B.A.G
Off to ‘Ichiban’, the local chinese restaurant for the Christmas N.O.S.E.B.A.G event. Paul, Karen, Rosi, David, Stefan, Debbie, Jo, Janet and us to were there Super meal! The place has only been open about 10 months – it’s got about 50 seats and the staff and food are both excellent! The chef won ‘Oriental Chef …
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School Blog
Visited my old school today for an OCA Committee meeting. It’s funny, I don’t ever recall the surrounding area ever being quite so ‘built up’.
Decorating Blog
We started work on decorating the small office downstairs
Car Blog
I took a short drive up to Grantham today to a company called ‘Paintshield‘. They specialise in fitting adhesive film to the front of cars to protect the paintwork from stone chips and other debris.
Senior Citizen Blog
I was really chuffed to be invited to Eric Austin’s celebratory lunch today. He’s 91 (one the eldest OCA members) and I helped him pull together a short book recently that reflected on his life. It was his way of saying thank you. I also met his daughter Elizabeth and son-in-law Rod. Ann was unable …
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Mondeo Blog 2
After some intensive care at Paul’s garage, after Tuesday’s fiasco, it seems that the alternator was at fault. A shiny new one has been installed on the car and we’ll see how we get on…
Restaurant Blog
Took one of my top clients (Julia B) to a nice Italian restaurant in Kensington. The Ark. Very understated, but the food was EXCELLENT. Giggles (and slight embarassment) all round when I ordered a bottle of Chardonnay costing 120 pounds!
Mondeo Blog
Well, the trusty Mondeo broke down on Ann today – miles away in Andover. Seems to be the same problem again, a flat battery, that caught me out a few weeks back. Fortunately, we got it recovered back to Paul’s and they’ll spend a few days looking it over.
Doctor PC Blog – 2
Off to Mags’ today to take care of one-or-two niggles she’s having with her PC…
Cat Show Blog
Off to the Cat Show at the NEC. Janet, the Breeder who we chose to ‘source’ Bon-Bon and Biscuit did very well indeed . She got ‘Best in Variety’ with ‘Maria’ the Chinchilla. Well, a year on from last year’s show it’s interesting to reflect on our comments made at last year’s show. Click here
Doctor PC Blog – 1
Now that the bulk of paid work is over for the year, I can indulge in my other passion, ‘fiddling with PCs’. Stayed overnight at the Ibis, Earl’s Court and then off to Angela C’s in Isleworth to get her shiny new Dell PC up and running with broadband and transfer the data from her …
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Christmas Shopping 2005
Off to London today to get the last of the Christmas pressies and to buy our joint Anniversary gifts! Crappy train journey took nearly half-an-hour longer due to engineering work.
Sheep shearer Blog
We took a drive over to Janet and Nigel’s to get the kittens sorted. Bon-Bon almost needed a sheep shearer to get through her coat, but luckily, Janet’s an expert, and did a splendid job of a bath and a haircut on both Bon-Bon and Biscuit! Finished off most the Christmas Cards – 200 plus! …
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Bibury Blog
Popped down to Cirencester to meet a work colleague, Lydia, to discuss our forthcoming presentation. I just made it, as the car conked out in the car park of the Swan hotel, where we were due to meet. Top marks to Anthony the AA Man for his excellent customer/handling skills. Although he wasn’t able to …
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Zorro Blog
We went to see the new Zorro film “The Legend of Zorro” with Jo and Jan at the local Odeon. Wow! …a wafer-thin plot, involving ‘government types’ on a black ops mission, the obligatory bald bad-guy henchman plus a reference to weapons of mass destruction….and I don’t mean Zeta-Zones’ mammarys! What a story-line! Best bit …
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Fireworks Blog
Ann’s friend Nicki joined us on Saturday for the annual firework display at Wicksteed Park. It was a cold evening with a touch of rain. A good event overall, but a stray catherine wheel brought things to an abrupt halt after flying off and injuring a number of spectators. They say they’ll be an enquiry …
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Pie Blog
Nick and Celina popped around for supper, and to chat about some of my business-related issues. It was all complemented by a rather splendid home-made steak and mushroom pie from Ann. Yummy! …oh and a few bottles of red wine!
Peruvian Blog
Met Ian M at Temple tube. We took Cat and Debbie (who are clients), out to the restaurant we checked out last week. Braised Llama anyone? 🙂
1940’s Detective Blog
Chris and Pete organised a really good 1940’s themed murder mystery evening at Rushden Hall. Brilliant! Clearly, a lot of preparation went into the event and the neighbours as actors played their parts very convincingly Well done you two – we had a GREAT time!!
The Mega Eating Blog – 4
..and finally, we ate out with David and Val, our neighbours at Mazza’s (makes a change!) in Kettering. Fantastic as always!!!