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Escher & Canadians!
I had an unusually cultured moment this week, when the time rolled round to drag Janine & Clare G to the Escher exhibition at Somerset House. I think the combo of it being an interactive thing, him being Dutch, the pleasing symmetry of his style, alongside its quirkiness, managed to lure me into getting tickets!…
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The AV5 Girls’ Weekend
As if by magic, suddenly it was time for the annual get-together of my ‘AV5’ group, kindly hosted as ever by Janine down at the cottage. And we packed a lot into a couple of days! Started off with a trip down to Chichester Festival Theatre to see this year’s headline musical, My Fair Lady.…
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Two Nights In Somerset
Just back from spending two days and nights with my dear uni chum Mark and his hubby Charlie. They have been renting a very snazzy stone house in Alhampton for 7 weeks a year, for the last few years, with Lottie their dog – who does love to ‘sidecar’ chase/terrorise poor Maddie as they zoom…
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Goodwood, darling..
Fi & Rich very kindly invited us to join them for a day out at the races – so of course, off we went! I haven’t seen Mr H resplendent in a suit since he stopped work, but was very impressed that he brushed up so well (as well he might do having splashed for…
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10 Years of Dara & Velcade
Yes, there’s a title to strike a mix of fear, horror, morbid fascination and also – obviously – pleasure that I’m still here – into my heart. It seems much more recent than waaaaay back in 2016 that Prof told me my remission was over and that I would need a second stem cell transplant.…
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July Social
And July continued to be mostly hot, hot, hot. But luckily interspersed with lots of lovely social whirls to keep us more than entertained. One of those was at a distance for me – the wedding of my cousin Adrian’s only daughter Scarlett, to her very handsome beau, Andrea. Rick & Cathy headed off to…
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Sarah’s Birthday Drinks & Dinner
What better antidote to hot summer evenings than some rooftop drinks with the girls? The usual five of us headed out this week to Circe in Waterloo, for pre dinner drinks to celebrate Sarah’s impending birthday. Once again grateful that at least one of us has a summer birthday! Great views across London – and…
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The Annual Helens Trip
Just back from my annual get together with Helen Tebay and Helen Vickery, my Catz uni chums, unsurprisingly known to me as ‘the Helens’. We headed down to Fruity’s (Helen V’s) family house in Dorset, for a dose of back to the 1970’s (you’ve gotta love that hallway carpet!) and back to 1987 as well,…
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Wimbers Tennis Week
The week kicked off with something that seemed exceptionally unlikely at the start of this year – Maureen, bless her, somehow made it to her 89th birthday. Ginny, Muriel and I managed to get her out to the terrace area of her care home, where Maureen seemed entirely confused about the sight of a cake,…
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Our Last Week In Spain
Having worried that two months in Spain this year – albeit with a pop back for 5-6 days for treatment in the middle – would be too long, the last week rolled round remarkably swiftly! We even had a mini ‘trip within a trip’, by heading off to Ronda for one night. Foolishly on my…