It would seem that the best Indian restaurant round here – Mazza’s – has started a delivery service!!
USB iz Gr8!
You know me, I can’t go a week without a dabble in technology! How’s this then, for something really neat…and useful too! Ann’s car came with a ‘usb port for music’. After briefly reading the manual (boring!), I ordered an 8Gb stick from Amazon in a nice ‘girly pink’ (about 20 quid)and then copied a …
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Ann’s new car
Probably not the best weather for photographs, but here are the first batch… (click on them for larger version…)
Ann’s new car is here…
Excellent news! Ann picked up her new car today. Well, it’s almost the same, apart from the wheels and Ann’s had a body-kit added too! Yum Yum!!
Busy…Busy!
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Yes, it’s another one of those Saturdays where it’s all go-go-go!! First off, me over to Peterborough for a hair-cut, then back to pick up the 5 ton of holiday dry cleaning! Ann and Lee then headed over to Waitrose, shopping complete with the cats who are going …
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Meal with David and Val
If it’s the weekend, it must be The Wheatsheaf at Titchmarsh! 🙂 …well, it feels like it, as we were there last Saturday too! This time, it’s our regular monthly meal out with David and Val and I reckon if they don’t change the menu soon, we’re in danger of having tried everything on it …
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DVD: Star Trek
I’d been to see it at the cinema in May last year. Lee’s a fan, and hadn’t seen it, so with Ann away tonight (who’s not a fan!), it was the perfect opportunity to see it in all its blu-ray glory. Having watched it again, I’d say it was a very watchable film – even …
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Lunch with Dave B
I drove over to Market Harborough today to meet-up with my friend Dave B. We’d tried to meet back in early December, but the appalling traffic for Dave as he headed south on the M1 meant I ran out of time waiting for him. We parked up at the top of the high-street in Market …
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TV: Being Human (Series 2)
Series 2 started last week and I quickly caught up with episode 1, courtesy of SkyPlus, over the weekend. What did I think? Well, surprisingly, I didn’t enjoy it at all. The acting was fine, as usual, but structurally, the story was all over the place and there just seemed to be too many characters. …
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Good news!
We heard today that Ann’s new car has arrived at the Dealership! We’re picking it up on Saturday!!
Meal with Jane and Mick
We drove to our favourite pub/restaurant – The Wheatsheaf at Titchmarsh – to meet up with Jane and Mick. It was our usual annual get-together – in fact we saw them on the 16th last year too! The meal I thought was great, as always – I had the ‘blade of beef’ whilst Ann had …
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Wot, no snow!
At last, the white stuff has gone from around here!
Lunch with Alison W
We met at John Lewis in Peterborough and it seemed that the whole of Cambridgeshire was having lunch at the same time as us! Busy or what??? I can’t believe it was October 2008, when we last saw each other. What with work commitments and the awful weather, we’ve only now got around to meeting-up! …
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TV: Doctor Who 2009 Christmas Special – ‘The End of Time’
Shown in two parts (on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day) and attracting an audience of 10+ million viewers (which is very respectable for a cult TV programme), this was David Tennant‘s final appearance as the Time Lord. We’d been out of the country for Christmas and the new year, and so far, I’d managed …
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Lee is with us…
Lee is staying with us indefinitely. She needs some tlc whilst she comes to terms with Bertie being admitted into a old-folks home.
Barbados – Extra
Thursday 7 January 4.00am local time. Well, here we are. Still. After yesterday’s announcement that our flight today has been cancelled, we’re still no further forward. The BA Helpline sent us on a wild mongoose chase to the Airport, whilst the Airport advised us to return to our B and B and ‘ring this number’. …
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BayField House – Day Five
Again, there is no hot water this morning. Perhaps it’s part of the process to get us acclimatised to the UK weather, when we return! Today we’re took a drive to Bridgetown, which was very nice – that’s when we got a text from BA saying our flight home had been cancelled due to bad …
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BayField House – Day Four
Arghhh! – no hot water again this morning!! Ralph beat me talking with the owner, Trevor, about getting it sorted out. This is getting silly, we’ve asked three times now to ask for the problem to be resolved. Hopefully, tomorrow, will be a hot-water day! We’re all slightly grumpy now!!!! After breakfast, we set off …
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Bayfield House – Day Three
We were up slightly later this morning and had breakfast around 9.30. I seem to left the fever part of my cold behind to be replaced with feeling totally bunged-up! (too much detail!!!!) 11.00am. We’re to explore the north part of the island today – the Parish of St Lucy. We started off at Speightstown …
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Doctor Who Trailer for Series 5
Looks like he’s back with a new face in Spring 2010…
BayField House – Day Two
I was up about 7am after a restless night where my sore throat turned into a chesty cough! (great!!) After a hearty breakfast, and a ‘planning meeting’, we decided to take a picnic and head for the east-coast. Ann’s driving today with Karen navigating, whilst we heckle from the back! 🙂 Trevor is cooking tonight, …
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BayField House – Day One
We had a horrendous night’s sleep on the ship (as we thought we would) because of the sea conditions. It seemed to be that we woke every few minutes or so, to coincide with every violent twist and turn of the Ship. However, we were still up-and-about by 7.30 finishing off our last minute packing …
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New Year’s Day – St Lucia
We slept in slightly later – but we were up at 7.30 mainly due to the noise of the Ship docking. I then spent an hour-or-so ringing round wishing happy new year to those that were up-and-about. A lazy day is planned. I’ve picked up a sore throat from somewhere (probably the smoke from all …
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New Year’s Eve 2009 – Martinique
7.00am local time. It looked a bit cloudy as we anchored in Fort de France, Martinique on the west side of the island. (Historical note: Martinique is not a colony, but actually part of France. Those living here are considered French and it’s one of the few islands in the Caribbean that has always belonged …
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St Vincent and Bequia
We both slept well, although Ann woke with a pretty bad head – must have been the alcohol last night! Another day, another island! Well, actually, we get two for the price of one today – St Vincent and Bequia (later today). As normal, we had a lazy breakfast and then took the Tender ashore. …
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Tobago Cays – Lunch on the Beach
We had a later breakfast and then took the Tender to the beach. It was another gorgeous day, although thankfully, slightly cooler than yesterday – only 26 degrees! The beach was your typical ‘Robinson Crusoe’ type, sand, sand, palm-trees and more sand. Perfect!!! “South of Canouan and west of Mayreau lie the Tobago Cays islands, …
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The Island of Grenada
We woke just after 7, to a cloudy-ish sky – I wonder if it’ll rain? The Ship docks in Grenada today around 12 noon – it’s the smallest independent country in the western hemisphere and is home to 160000 residents. St Georges is the capital and home to The Carenage, noted as ‘the most beautiful …
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Union Island, Grenadines
Overnight (and for much of the morning) we headed for Union Island – Grenadines arriving at Noon. We avoided the rush to get off the ship by spending time soaking-up the sun and then having lunch on-board. We then jumped on the Tender (only a short wait) and headed for the shore. The beach area …
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TV: Being Human – Series 2 launch date announced
BBC3, 10 January 2010 at 9.30pm Being Human web-site and more news HERE
Boxing Day 2009 – Anchors Away…
Later today, we’ll be boarding the ‘Royal Clipper’. We board at around 4pm local time and sail at 10pm. We’re not sure yet if we can get an internet connection on the ship, so this may be the last posting until we get back next Saturday! Over the coming seven days, the cruise will take …
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