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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Lunch with Steve S
I popped over to Oundle to meet up with Steve. We’d previously met just before Christmas, when, amongst other things, Steve was making plans for being father-of-the-bride for his daughter, Kelly, on Easter Saturday. I’ve lent him some books on speeches! We walked to The Ship, as normal, and as part of my giving-it-up-for-Lent thingy, …
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Normal Service will be…
Cough and splutter!
Now that was weird. We’d had an early night, but at just after 11pm last night, I woke up, coughing, spluttering and unable to get my breath. A few coughing fits later, I was fine, and I went back to sleep. Strange!
DVD: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
Took the afternoon off as I seem to be well ahead with my work. Lee and I watched Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982). An unusual title with an even more unusual cast: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Alan Ladd, James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, Ray Milland, Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner and James Cagney – …
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The Cats are 5 today!
It’s official, Biscuit IS a lap-cat!!! ..but only under specific conditions: 1. Only if one of us is sitting on the settee, not on a chair, not in the kitchen….just the settee and the front-room 2. Only if it’s on the right hand side. 3. Only if she feels like it Cats huh! Bon-Bon meanwhile …
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Photo shoot
Well, that made a pleasant change from my normal day-job. I was invited to attend the Awards Ceremony of a key client and take the official photographs of the event. Apart from a small techy-glitch towards the end, it all went very well. I now just have to get the photographs printed & framed and …
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Flat Hunting
We took a drive down into town today to revisit an apartment in ‘The Woodyard’ off Wellington Street in Kettering Well, initial impressions were favourable. It’s a two-bedroom apartment, pretty close to town with its own parking space. Although the place was a bit grubby and the colour scheme was pretty depressing, we think it’s …
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It’s been a bad week here for technology!
First, my NetBook dies and now the four home phones have more-or-less all deteriorated beyond repair. The replacements turned up today courtesy of John Lewis, and they look pretty good. The best thing about them is that you can program in someone’s number on a single phone and then copy it to all the other …
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New NetBook up and running…
Phew! Well that didn’t take long. I’ve managed to install all the necessary software on my new NetBook and it’s all fine! I’m sooooo pleased that everything is now back to normal after ‘wobbly Sunday’
Size Matters…
Some of you will just be old enough to remember the original Polaroid camera. Remember how we all marvelled at the fact it could print pictures instantly? For younger readers, this was in pre-digital days and the Polaroid was a true miracle, because the only other way to get your pics developed was to rush …
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Test Blog from new NetBook
Hello world!
TV: Being Human (Series 2: Episode 8 of 8)
Well, what to make of series two, now that the final episode aired last night? I had high-hopes of the series, after series 1 just blew me away. I guess my expectations were raised as soon as the latest series began, two months ago. All-in-all though, I’ve found it all a bit disappointing and uneven; …
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My NetBook throws a wobbly!
It’s been a constant companion of mine now for nearly 18 months , but yesterday, it finally had enough of being shoved into dark places, left in training rooms all alone and forced to travel in the luggage area on planes! At 3pm yesterday it was fine – windowing away nicely, thank-you. By 5pm, this …
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DVD: Pride and Prejudice
We watched the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice in all its Blu-Ray glory this afternoon (five episodes today and one yesterday!). In my view, it’s still the best adaptation ever produced Not sure about the transfer to Blu-ray though – it looked decidedly grainy in places, and it also had a very strange …
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Lazy Sunday Afternoon
…and the morning too! Unusually, neither of us had that much to do today. I got the books ready for Nick, my Accountant (it’s my end-of-year), whilst Ann attacked the shower-room armed with an elbow full of grease – and the oven, with a chicken full of err.. chicken! Lee and I caught up with …
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Lee and Ann go Flat hunting
After dropping the cats back, Lee and Ann went flat-hunting in Kettering. The reality is, we think, that Humberto will never come out of the care-home. So, our suggestion is that Lee will move out of Cromer once she has found somewhere suitable round here.
Cats in…Back out…
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Lucky pussies ehh! Ann dropped them over to Patsy‘s for their regular bath, blow dry and comb-out – as always, they put a tremendous fight when we tried to get them into the cat carriers! Patsy had pulled her back, so we were only expecting her to comb …
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Julie’s Rules
Popped around to Julie and Tom’s to try and deal with a problem Julie was having with all her emails automatically going into the deleted bin! It turned out that a ‘rogue’ rule was to blame. Technology is wonderful, isn’t it???
Result!
BA is NOT our favourite airline! Over the years they’ve consistently managed to fall well below our expectations whenever we’ve flown with them. Against better judgement, we chose to travel with them for our recent holiday to Barbados. When the return journey went t***-up and we had to find another way to get home, they …
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Chris, Gill, Steve and Denise – Get together
I was out all day in London. Meanwhile, Ann and Lee performed miracles in the kitchen. The gang arrived just after 7 and as a result, we stuffed ourselves silly on all the homemade grub that had been prepared. Scrummy!!!
TV: Doctor Who – Series 5
The trailer for the new Doctor Who series premiered tonight just after Total Wipeout. Apparently the new series starts on April 3rd. It all looked a bit weird and ‘too busy’ for me, but when I heard that it was best appreciated in 3D, where it’s currently being shown in cinemas, I could see why …
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