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Results – phew again
Brilliant – just had this month's PP score and it is only up by 0.14 – a mere 2% – so that''s another sigh of relief in the Hawkes household. Well, at least until I venture out in 10 mins to go cycling with Swight in the ludicrous sweaty heat, starting with a peddally climb up…
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You’ve Gotta Love…
a Pop-up Gin Bar! Nipped up to Hoxton Square in E.London last night – as you do (yep, almost got arrested as an imposter, going somewhere so achingly trendy), to check out the Fever tree pop-up gin bar with John & Hannah Nur-Nurse - well, what's not to like about something like that? Bloody good idea for…
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If you’re ever in Antibes…
… Try a few crackng hours at the Absinthe Bar. One of the best nights out I've had in ages – it's an underground, perfect size, proper piano bar with a top notch singer blokey giving it large on the ivories. Singing – thank god – in English – and accompanied by increasingly raucous crowd howling as the…
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Pig on the Beach
No – not for once, a delicious hog roast occasion (more's the pity) but instead a night away with John & Hannah Nurse to try out the latest opening in the range of Pig hotels (original one in Brockenhurst, think one now in Bath and maybe some others). Spent the day poncing about the spa…
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Survived the Wimbledon Camping Thing!
Yes – it's a miracle. I have voluntarily spent the night in a tent. And all when my own bed was only 600 metres away… And as a result, I now have the lowdown on 'how to camp for Wimbledon Tennis tickets'. Main learnings being: – You have to get there VERY early these days.…
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The Myeloma 50k Bike Ride
It's taken me this long post-ride to be able to sit comfortably enough to actually write my blog… actually, amazingly - I managed the whole thing with no more side effects than an ocean of bike oil down my ankle and being bent virtually double from the 2 hour journey in the back of Ross's van (alongside my…
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Good result!
Blimey – could the tables possibly be turning? Or is it incredibly foolish to put a small optimistic thought like that down in writing? Well, either way – just had this month's PP score back – and it's amazingly gone down again, this time from 7.24 last month to 6.65 this month. OK so no,…
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The Aces Hockey Club AGM
… was a splendid affiar last Saturday. Hosted by Liz Lewzey in her bijou garden (ie. half of Oxshott), 18 of us rolled out for a serious discussion about the future of our club. No, we didn't – it was in fact an afternoon and evening of endless Pimms, beer and Hannibal Brown fizz, Thanks…
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Granny Goes to the Seaside
Very naughtily we decided to let Mum bunk off church just this once, as the sun was finally out and summer seemed – at last – to have shown its little yellow face. So off we toddled to Whitstable, with mum, the wheelchair, hats, suncream, water and sunglasses, plus the dog and all their various bits…
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Consider This..
Went to the 10th anniversary party of Paul Taylor's busibness – Consider This – on Fri eve at an old theatre in Notting Hill, along with a bunch of ex AV-ers to keep up Sarah's side of the party. TOP night out – Paul went to LAMDA and is an arty sort, so had racked…