It’s ‘cultural Saturday’ here(nothing wrong with that!). Lee stayed over and the three of us headed into town to see Brass for Africa 3 – a rather excellent concert of brass band music and singing. In spite of the atrocious weather, the event, at Kettering Citadel, was very well supported with standing room only. What …
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Prezzo – Kettering
From an eating-out point of view, Prezzo opening in Kettering is one of the best things to happen to the town for ages. It’s unlike us, but we’d been pretty slow off the mark checking this place out, but we put that right tonight! We met Jo and Janet there and we were surprised to …
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Stamford – Here we come
We picked up David and Val and headed for Stamford. We’re spending today and Sunday morning with Nick and Celina. Weather looks horrible, but I’m sure we’ll make the best of it. Luckily for us, the weather brightened up and after a few circuits of the car-park, we all met-up and headed for The Crown …
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Tech Alert: Google Play adds ‘Music’
I’m not quite sure exactly when this happened, but today I noticed that my Google Play app now lists ‘music’ as one of its many options (in addition to Apps, Books and Movies). A closer inspection reveals that together with the free player app (available as a separate download), I can now search for, play …
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Preparation: Social Media Excellence Workshop
With just a week to go, I’m working with Denise M from The Career Practice putting the finishing touches to our one-day coaching event next week in London. This particular workshop is aimed at business professionals who wish to use social media ‘to the max’ when seeking employment and includes detailed sessions covering Facebook, Twitter …
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Cats and Abs
A relatively quiet Saturday for us! Just the cats to take over to Patsy’s for their normal six-weekly wash-n-brush-up. So it was a good time to catch-up with the stack of blu-rays that have been gathering dust here in the past few months. A random pick revealed Safe starring Jason Statham. We both like Jason …
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Bev’s here
FRIDAY Bev joined us for the weekend. It was nibbles and wine on Friday night in preparation for her marathon shopping expedition with Lee, Jane and Ann on Saturday – I’m acting as just the taxi service! 🙂 SATURDAY Up with the lark and down to the station for 7.30am (!!!) as the girls headed …
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Tech Alert! – BBC iPlayer on my Sky Box
Worth the wait, but sometime between 7am and 9.30am this morning, BBC’s iPlayer service became available on my Sky Box. On closer inspection, there’s even HD content there too for downloading! Now all we need is Channel 4’s catch-up service and Sky will then provides catch-up services …
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Film: Bond 23: Skyfall
We pre-booked the tickets a few months ago to see “Skyfall”, the 23rd outing for James Bond (released on 23rd October and directed by Sam Mendes). I’m glad we did as the cinema was packed – and they were showing it every 45 minutes across a number of the screens too! It’s the first …
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Christmas Shopping: Milton Keynes
Today we’re on a mission – a mission to finalise the Christmas pressies. We picked up Lee just after 8am (!!!) and headed for Milton Keynes, where we joined Nicki for a joint operation. We arrived in good time – just a few minutes before John Lewis opened and huddled outside until the shutters went …
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Meal with David and Val
We returned to our fave Indian Restaurant – The Exotic Dining – with David and Val tonight. It was the busiest we’d ever seen it on a Thursday night (although it still wasn’t full) – we also saw Bev R there with a work colleague. Ironically, when we tried to use our ‘2 for 1/4 …
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Sort out your Grammar!
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5ive Go To Stratford
Can it be 10 years since we collaborated in the British Airways training project? Err, no! The anniversary was actually last year, but trying to get all of the core Trainers together in one place, on a specific date, was as challenging as herding cats! So, after a few exchanges of emails, five of us …
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Social Media Timeline
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Nails, Nibbles and Nice Friends
We’re now both getting over our respective colds, so it was good to be able to get out for some fresh air and catch-up with friends. First stop was into town and the newly renovated and pedestrianised Market Street. Boy, it’s changed round here since I last looked – in …
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Man-Flu?
No! Absolutely not!!! But whatever it is, I’ve got it! Normally, I can shake off a cold quicker than you can say ‘paracetemol’, but this one is proving really difficult to shift. It started last week with just a tickly throat and there were no associated aches and pains with only a short period where …
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DVD: Avengers Assemble
I was looking forward to watching this DVD – Avengers Assemble. It’s been on my wish-list since I missed it first time around at the cinema. I’d already seen ‘Iron Man’ and ‘Thor’ and they were pretty good, so a film with both of them in, was going to be great wasn’t it? …wasn’t it? …
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Saturday is for… socialising
A busy, but very enjoyable day socialising today! We picked up Nick and Celina at around 11.30 and headed off to The Olive Branch in Clipsham for lunch. it was our first visit there, although Nick and Celina had been before. Wow! what a treat!!!! The …
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Meal at the Finch’s Arms
Time for our monthly meal with David and Valerie. This time it was a visit to Finchs Arms in Hambleton, Oakham – our first visit. It’s a 17th Inn with a small Bar and a largish Restaurant. David agreed to drive, and with it getting darker much earlier now, it felt like a really long …
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2012: Happy Birthday – to me
Another year older today Thanks everyone for your generous thoughts, comments and gifts. Cards Ann Angela Antoinette Bev Carey and Clive Carol Chris and Pete David and Val Denis Ian H and Sharon Ian McL and Ann Jo and Janet Lee Margaret S Mum Nick and Celina Margaret and Alan Neil, Debbie, Alfie and Frankie …
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Garden Blitz!
It’s now that time of year, where the garden is shouting for attention to get it ready for Winter! Luckily, the sun was shining, making the task a little easier. Ann took on the cutting back back/cutting down part, whilst I repainted the side garage …
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Ferry good lunch!
I met up with Alison W – from my Nokia days – at The Granary in Ferry Meadows, Peterborough for lunch today. We’d been there a couple of times before, but today was a slightly surreal experience as the staff were all dressed in strange outfits. Our waitress, was dressed as… well, we weren’t quite …
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OCA Newsletters
I drove down to Peter J’s today. He’d kindly offered to help collate the annual newsletter for The Old Croydonians’ Association. I’d received the pre-addressed envelopes courtesy of Isabel, and Peter had the printed newsletters delivered direct to his home. We made good time with this repetitive task – almost 300 all sealed in envelopes …
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“Ahoy there!”
We drove down the Roger, Jane and Oliver’s last night in preparation for our trip to see the newly restored Cutty Sark at Greenwich today. After breakfast on Saturday, we took the short drive to Harlow Town station and that took us to Stratford Station where we jumped on the DLR to Cutty Sark. The …
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Sky+ HD Box gets more features
As if my Sky+ HD Box couldn’t acquire any more features – it just has (almost!) Those of us with this newer type of Box, will have woken up this morning to find that the (rather confusingly titled) ‘Anytime’ and ‘Anytime+’ labels in the Planner have been retired – and replaced with ‘On Demand’. This …
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The Last Day of Summer?
Cor, what a(nother) scorcher! Surely today, with temperatures hitting 30 degrees, this must have been the last day of the really good weather. A busy and important day ahead. We set off early – around 8.30 – Lee stayed behind as her back was playing-up, and dropped into Neil and Debbie’s first for a catch-up. …
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Nicki joins us
Nicki joined us today for a shopping expedition over to Market Harborough. Weather-wise, it was another scorcher here today – 27 degrees by lunchtime. We parked in the Sainsbury car-park and walked through into the main town centre. Just like Cambridge yesterday, the town was packed. After doing most of the kitchen shops to death …
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Supper with Paul and Sue
It seems today has been all about eating, drinking and catching-up with friends – and tonight was no exception. We drove to see Paul and Sue at their Farm where they’d offered to do all the cooking! Perfect!!! 🙂 Paul’s a bit of a dark horse with cooking. He doesn’t do it that often for …
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Cambridge – Lunch with Sally B
I drove over to Cambridge’s Grand Arcade to meet up with Sally B. We had a number of things to sort out as part of our regular networking/self-improvement get-together. After a quick coffee in Starbuck’s, we dropped into the Apple Store to get Sally’s iPhone configured for sending emails when she’s away from the office. …
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Kilworth House Theatre – The Sound of Music
Ann and I picked up Rosi and Rhiannon about 12.45 and headed off to see the afternoon matinee of The Sound of Music at Kilworth House Theatre. We met Jo, Janet and Carol there too. It was my first experience of this open-air theatre, and first impressions were very good. As for the production, it …
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