That was nice! David and Val invited us round to look at some of the Wedding photos from last weekend. It was also the last time they’ll see Lee before she (temporarily) moves out this week.
Smug Bugger! Lent Dented!
However you choose to measure it, Lent in now over and I can return to a diet of occasional junk-food and generally stuff that tastes nice, but isn’t good for you! This year, I managed to stick* to my list for 40 days and nights and avoid the following: *Well, when I say ‘stick’, I …
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Long Weekend in Harrogate – Sunday
Fuelled by the ‘Full-English’ breakfast, we set off in the direction of York. On the way there, we dropped into RHS’s property, Harlow Carr. This was disappointing, but perhaps that was down to the time of year and Spring being a bit late this year. Still, it gave us the perfect excuse to pop into …
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Long Weekend in Harrogate – Saturday
Looking out of the Band B window, it’s another rainy-day ahead! So, a lazy breakfast followed by the short walk into town armed with our big umbrella. The plan today is to buy Ann a new fountain-pen as a belated birthday present. It’s not as cold as yesterday, but it’s still raining!!! Success, we saw …
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Long Weekend in Harrogate – Friday
We’re going to John and Delyth’s Wedding tomorrow in Leeds, so that’s a perfect excuse to make a weekend of it. We set off just before 10 and had a trouble-free journey until we got to Doncaster, where the traffic just stopped just a mile or so before junction 36. We decided to make a …
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TV: Ashes to Ashes – Series 3, Episode 1
A good opening episode to this, the final series that started tonight at 9pm. We’re promised that by the end of the series: ‘all the loose ends will be tied up’ and the ‘link between Sam Tyler and Alex Drake will be explained…’ I loved the scene featuring the Quattro and the Ford Capri and …
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TV: Doctor Who goes ‘across the pond…’
Crikey, even the Americans are getting the new series…but will they really ‘get it’?
TV: Ashes to Ashes
The final series (Series 3) starts on Good Friday. Rumours on the ‘net suggest that it’s Gene Hunt who’s the one in the coma and Sam Tyler (Life on Mars) and Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes) are the ones trying to save him! – Hmmmm, an interesting twist – wonder if it’ll turn out to …
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TV: Doctor Who – Episode 6, ‘Vampires in Venice’
A spooky one…
HD2 Update
I managed to track down a really useful FREE update for my Co-Pilot sat-nav software installed on my phone today. Amongst the usual raft of performance mods, I also found some genuinely useful and practical features too! Live fuel prices. The sat-nav works out where you are and lists all the nearby fuel stations and …
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Paul and Karen’s for a Feast!
We walked all of three-yards tonight to one of our closest eateries! – Paul and Karen’s! Rosi and David joined us and so did Debbie and Stefan – and we all prepared to be fed and watered in grand style. We started off with sparkling wine and caught up with all the gossip – and …
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The final stages of my Blog transfer
Image via Wikipedia Phew! A week or so ago, I’d posted that I had mostly got my head round the imminent techy changes at Google, that meant my Blogs would have to be physically ‘moved’. This was due to some behind-the-scenes changes in the way Blogger manages the uploading of …
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TV: Doctor Who, Series 5 – Extended Excerpt
Just a week to go…
The 49er
It probably wasn’t the smartest of scheduling, because I managed to be working away in Germany on Ann’s birthday this year! Nice cards though – and this was our favourite…it made us giggle! Original sketch by Ronald Searle Related articles Ronald Searle at 90 (drawn.ca) Interview with cartoonist Ronald Searle (boingboing.net) Ronald Searle – a …
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Lee gets her place
Excellent news! The two-bedroomed town-house that we looked at a week or so ago for Lee is the one! She put a deposit on it today and hopefully, be in by the beginning of May.
Ann’s home..!
Ann got back around 3.15 – earlier than expected – having had a great time at the firm’s 10th anniversary ‘do’!
TV: Doctor Who – Series 5 Press Launch ‘Teaser’
Looks exciting..! Daleks! World War II? Churchill?
TV: Doctor Who – Series 5 Preview
Nice!
Mice will play…
Unusually, Ann’s away this weekend. It’s a work-do celebrating the company’s birthday – 10 years. All staff are invited…a few thousand…but no partners. So, Lee and I are fending for ourselves whilst ‘the cat’s’ away. I took Lee to have a look at a possible property to consider moving into later this year. It’s in …
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Meal with Paul and Sue
We caught up with Paul and Sue at The Swan in Lamport tonight. I haven’t been there for a few years (when I met up with Ian and Mags for our Christmas do in December 2008) and Ann hasn’t for about 20 years when she and I last went there together! We left around 7.20 …
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It’s London again
Another manic day! It began gently with Nick, my Accountant, arriving as planned just before 8am, to go through last year’s figures. We’re slightly down on turnover, but enjoyed a good jump in profits! With all that sorted, it was then off to London again! I’m not sure how I managed to schedule things that …
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TV: Doctor Who Series 5 premieres in Cardiff
Episode 1 of series 5 (or series 31 if you’re a purist!) premiered last night in Cardiff, with the main stars in attendance and available for interview afterwards. For the rest of us mere mortals, we’ll get the opportunity to see the episode on Easter Saturday, in the evening – I think it’s going out …
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Strada, South Bank
Today has been a day for meeting and eating! This morning I headed off to The George in Stamford to meet Eric, and then Lee and I drove into town to look at an apartment for her. Finally, late afternoon, I took the train to London and met up with Philip, Carey and Angela …
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Lunch with Eric M
I met up with my friend Eric, who’s a film producer, today at The George in Stamford. I’m normally pretty good at keeping in touch, but I can’t find an entry for the last time we met like this – so it must be more than six years ago before I started blogging. Having said …
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My Blog lives! (phew!!!)
A while ago, I mentioned that due to some techy changes at Google, I’d have to move my Blog to a new address within Blogger – owned by Google – otherwise all postings would cease after May 1st. I did the migration exercise last night and (touch wood) everything seems to have gone smoooooothly. So, …
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TV: Peter Graves
I was sad to hear that Peter Graves, died a few days ago. The actor was famous for his role as Jim Phelps in the iconic TV series, Mission Impossible and the hilarious Airplane series of films where he played Captain Oveur. I guess he has now completed his final mission! Related articles Rest in …
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Katrina and Sally for Lunch
Well, not literally 🙂 I drove over the Cambridge today to meet up with Katrina and Sally. I haven’t seen Katrina for, I think, around 5 years, and it was great to catch-up. It’s fair to say that K has a lot going on in her life at the moment (I’m not going to spell-out …
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Crikey! It’s a carpet!!!
I spent the morning alternating between a bit of prep work and clearing up the office – especially the floor! After an hour or so, I could see the carpet – amazing! We caught up with the gazillion of Lambing Live episodes shown last week on the BBC. Luckily, we had beef for lunch!
Catch up with Karen and Ralph
We’d forgotten that it was Mothering Sunday coming up (well, we hadn’t actually, we did send flowers to the Mums!), but we couldn’t get a seat in a pub or restaurant anywhere half-way between R+K’s in Matlock and us for Sunday. So, we decided to simply bring the date forward and meet-up tonight. Ralph found …
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Meal with David and Val
It’s that time again and we’re off for a meal with David and Val. This time, we’re going to try out the Collyweston Slater in err, Collyweston. The table was booked for 8pm, so we left around 7.30 to give us a none-too-hurried journey there. On arrival, the bar area was already very busy and …
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