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  • Aces end of season social

    Meet my hockey team – or at least about 2/3 of it as this photo was taken at Southgate, one of the furthest games we have to travel to and not the most popular destimation. It's so far off, it's barely on the tube map.. and the polar opposite from Wimbledon Park nestled in the…

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  • 10 Definite Facts about Sport Relief at the Velodrome

    So, went to Sport Relief at the velodrome last night with Janine & Ross and depite the enforced flag-waving and dancing with Miranda it was actually quite good fun. Possibly more so in some ways than the 'real' cycle event that we'd seen only the previous Friday (I think I'm now done on weekly schleps to Stratford for…

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  • Prof latest result

    Hmmm, I thought that the 'come and have a blood test every month from now on' annoyance was just that – a blood test annoyance. But no – it also seems to come with a bonus surprise screening for the Paraprotein, so I was a bit taken aback today when the result came in and…

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  • The Puddle Hunter

    So – you know how the weather's finally perked up, the sun's out and it's actually warm? And how the park has suddenly been transformed from a freezing muddy wasteland mostly under water, to a place you can almost – almost – imagine people coming and lying in on their blankets with a picnic? Well…

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  • Prof yesterday

    Well, it was better than it could have been but also worse in some ways.. Confused? Well join the crappy club. On the upside, my full body skeletal survey provided the very helpful summary that I am undergoing 'stable change'. Well, is it just me or are the two words 'stable' and 'change' not mutually…

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  • Underwater photos – aka ‘Happy Days Chasing Turtles’

    Hawksey was right – getting an underwater camera is one sure fire way of keeping me happily occupied for hours (also known as making me less annoying on holiday, when he's being less kind in translation). So – here are a few of the pix. Nothing that'd win a National Geog prize but one shot…

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  • BVIs Baby

    OK, all of you who've had a really crappy long winter look away now. If the reception I got at hockey today is anything to go by ('go away you're a filthy colour' / 'did you have a nice holiday – not that I actually want to hear the answer' / 'you're getting the Thanks…

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  • The Girls Summit Kili!

    Yes, I know you may be expectimng lots of nauseating photos of our holiday – fear not, those are next to come on here. But for now, I just wanted to give a massive shout out – or is that too American? (sorry Margo) – to Nicky and Sophie, who have just nailed their third of…

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  • Off to the BVIs

    Hurrah, hurrah – only 'two more sleeps' as Hawksey puts it, and we will be heading off for 2 lovely weeks in the BVIs. Spanking boat awaits and hopefully slightly better weather than when we last went on our honeymoon nearly 3 years ago. Mum has just been dropped back here by Richard, and Cathy…

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  • Meeting Reeve

    Yesterday was a first in several ways – most importantly it was the first time for me to meet Hawksey's nephew (Tim's son) – Reeve. Now aged 25 and living in Gloucester we chose possibly the worst wekeend weather-wise to winkle poor Reeve off his nice dry hilltop in the Vale of Dean and lure…

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