Lee rang today. They’ll be releasing Bertie tomorrow and transferring him to a Care-Home very near to where they live in Cromer.
No TV Times and two types of Radio Times – ehh?
I usually like to buy a copy of both the Radio Times and TV Times and compare how they’ve covered various programmes during the festive season. I didn’t think I’d left it too late this year, but obviously I did, (in fact, looking back to last year, I bought them during the first week …
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The Packing continues/Salvation Army Concert/Ice Age
We spent part of the morning continuing to pack. It all seems to fit (but the kitchen sink was a bit of a problem!!) – so we should get away with being under the weight limits for BA. Job done! We’re all packed apart from a few last minute bits and pieces. We’re ahead …
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Cats in/Holiday Prep
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr This is our final weekend before the holiday, so there is plenty to do – not least the packing! We had a productive morning, mostly cleaning and generally tidying-up. Additionally, we took the cats to the Vet for their final injections. We decided to get to there slightly …
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Han or not to Han
Our original plan was to pick up Jo, Janet and Carol and head over to Han, our favourite Chinese restaurant in Market Harborough for a final pre-Christmas gorge-fest. However, the atrocious weather here put paid to that and we decided to have everyone round to ours. As it turned out, Carol wasn’t able to make …
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The snow has arrived…
Image by Steve Palmer (UK) via Flickr Well, they forecasted it…and the white-stuff has arrived in great quantities. When I looked out the window at around 5am this morning, it didn’t look too bad, but it’s been snowing ever since on-and-off (mostly on!) and I reckon we’ve got two inches lying in the road here. …
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BA Strike deemed “illegal”
Good news… I think! Judges have declared the BA strike to be illegal, and so things are back to normal and there won’t be a strike over Christmas. Phew!
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Screen courtesy of mb21 Readers of a ‘certain age’ will remember a uniquely British technology that led the World, appearing on TVs in the early 70s – in fact, the service was first launched on 23 September 1974. It was called teletext and back then, it was a must-have for techy-nerds like me! In later …
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David round for Supper
David popped round on our invitation. He’d kindly cut the grass for us over the weekend whilst we were away and we wanted to say ‘thanks’. Ann created a superb chicken and mushroom pie – yum!! and we finished off with a lemon tart and cream! After a full lunch, I’m now more-than stuffed. Thank …
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Lunch with Sally B
My gorge-fest continues. At this rate, I’ll be classified under ‘excess baggage’ when we (err, ‘if’ – see yesterday’s blog) go away on holiday!!! Oooo, a flutter of snow in the air. I drove over to Cambridge to meet up with Sally B for lunch. We haven’t seen each other since June and it was …
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“Someday I’ll Fly Away…”
…or maybe not. After believing that we would probably be OK to fly on the 23rd because the Gatwick staff are on different working contracts, (and therefore the BA strike wouldn’t impact on us) when we spoke to BA‘s PR department they said our flight had been ‘flagged for cancellation’. They advised us to ring …
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Are we REALLY going on holiday?
Up until about half-an-hour ago, we weren’t sure! But, after the past 24 hours wondering whether the BA strike from the 22nd December would completely screw our holiday, it looks like there might be a glimmer of hope! According to the PR Department at BA, none of this threatened strike action is relevant to Gatwick, …
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The 5ive get together for Christmas
My ‘eat-fest’ continues. I headed down to London for 12 o’clock to meet up with some of the ‘gang-of-5ive’, Well, actually there was only four of us this year. Antoinette, Angela, Philip and I met for coffee at ‘Les Pain Quotidien’ before trying out ‘des Pain’ just a few units along – a bad …
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Ooh, that’s clever! (4)
Here’s a clever thing. I can see my mobile phone screen on my PC and use the mouse to control it! EDIT June 2020: Pretty clever for 2009! but unfortunately, the website that supplied the software isn’t around any longer).
The eyes have it…
Mae has been due to have the cataracts in both eyes sorted out kicking off in January 2010. She was quite surprised therefore to get a call to bring the whole thing forward to… TODAY! I spoke to her tonight and although parts of the process were quite painful for her, she was in good …
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Anniversary Presents 2009
Given that it’s out 25th, we splashed out a bit this year! Ann, from me… Me from Ann… From Rosi and David From Paul and Karen
The Power of a Pizza – 25 today…
Yes, today’s the day. Who would have thought that after a simple pizza in romantic Romford (December 14 1984), we’d be here, now, celebrating 25 years together? We’re off to The Wheatsheaf in Titchmarsh tonight to celebrate! The place was quite quiet when we arrived and we started off with a drink from the Bar. …
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Bertie’s a Bit Better!
Good news! We spoke to Lee tonight, and it looks like Bertie is feeling a bit better. His son, Carlos flew over from Spain and has spent the week with him – this seems to have made a big difference. Bertie even found time to ring Lee from the hospital.
What do points make…?
Family Weekend
Saturday We started the weekend heading off to Roger, Jane and Oliver‘s. – and popped into see Anthony, one of Ann’s ex-JS colleagues on the way – he lives in Letchworth with his wife, Sue. We got to theirs about 2.45 after a couple of trips up-and-down their road trying to find the house. What …
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The Cecilian Singers’ Carol Concert 2009
We drove over to Leicester to see David singing in the Cecilian Singers Choir. Val couldn’t join us this year as she’s in America visiting her sister. We’ve been going annually for a few years now, but the format this year, was slightly different as they’d changed the venue to St Philip’s Church in Evington Road. …
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Lunch with Steve S
Steve popped round for our final get together this year – We last saw each other back in July. We ended up at Hobson’s Choice in Kettering, where we always go! – the food’s good and the staff are pretty attentive. It was empty when we first arrived but soon filled up. There were a …
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TV: Life on Mars – Series 3
Over on Digital Spy, they’ve got an extended interview with the producer Matthew Graham, as to what to expect from the final series. Here is a snippet: The ending of Life On Mars was somewhat ambiguous. So you’re saying that Ashes will have a more definite explanation?“Not only that, but it will also hopefully explain …
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The wrapping begins…
We started wrapping the Christmas presents tonight. It’s always a sizeable task made even more challenging by the cats’ permanent interest in the bows, ribbons and wrapping paper being scrunched! We didn’t get it all done tonight, but at least we’ve started!
Paul’s ’50th Birthday’ get-together
The party weekend continues! We popped round to Paul and Karen’s just after 3pm where Karen had prepared lashings of great food including some very tasty meatballs – my favourite – and a rather potent sherry and brandy trifle – probably the best trifle I’ve tasted in years! I guess there must have been around …
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Ooh, that’s clever! (3)
OK, this utility didn’t come with the phone, but I downloaded it from the Microsoft Apps Marketplace for a mere two dollars. It’s called Trackah and it uses the GPS chip in the phone to track your journey – car, bus, walking etc. The result is a file that when clicked on either on the …
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The Party Season Begins…
We drove over the Leicester to pick-up Ann’s 25th Anniversary present – jewellery!! However on impulse, we decided not to go back to Goldsmith’s where we’d seen some nice stuff last week – instead we dropped into George Tarratt just down the road from Ann’s office as they had a much better range (with some …
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TV: Doctor Who – A Familiar Face…?
© BBCChristmas TV wouldn’t be Christmas TV these days without the festive Doctor Who episode. This year, it’s David Tennant’s final stint as the Time Lord in an episode entitled, ‘The End of Time’. It’s a two-parter, showing on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day Some familiar faces are back – some welcomed, some less …
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Lunch with Dave B – not!!
It’s that time of year, where the work slows down and I get an opportunity to meet up with friends and colleagues who I haven’t seen so much of during the year! The plan was to meet Dave B at market Harborough, but he had such a horrendous journey south on the M1 we decided …
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Cats in…
I took the pussies over to Patsy‘s this morning for their routine ‘service’. Actually, it was slightly ahead of schedule (they were due to go this Saturday) primarily because Bon-Bon’s winter coat has now arrived – she’s now five times as fluffy and difficult to groom (what’s new!) – and Biscuit’s ‘exploding bottom’ incident last …
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