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(High) Society Islands
At last – tomorrow Mr H & I are finally off on our quest towards the Society Islands, part of French Polynesia or the South Pacific, whichever vaguely twangs a chord in your brain that say 'bloody hewll, that's a long way away'. Heading to San Francisco first to hook up with Janine & Ross…
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Night out with the Nurses
No, not the 'white pinnie and brisk bedside manner' variety, more the 'soiree with John & Hannah Nurse' type of event. I had to wait 3 days to write this, as that's about how long it's taken me to get over the hangover. It all started so innocently – dinner at Tsunami in Clapham. Yes,…
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Wino Weekend
Picture the scene as we spent 5 days in the Rhone region en France last weekend: – Hawksey, super excited at being in the home of several of his favourite wines (Chateauneuf du Pape, Chapoutier and far too many others) literally hopping from foot to foot, clapping his hands and making snorting noises, to demonstrate his…
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5 Years – and still here.
Well, I couldn't really let a pretty important date to me go by without just a quick comment. I actually had to count and double check that I'd got the numbers right, beacuse I can hardly believe that 5 whole years have passed since that shocker of a day – 12th September 2008 – when…
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A Ruby Anniversary!
What's all this then? Well, I had to look it up myself as just this week I have celebrated a 40th Anniversary. No, clearly not a wedding one, for those of you fleet enough of mind to clock that this was only 2.5 years ago and even I in my 'speed everything up and stuff…
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Lakes Weekend
So then, my nosebleed has finally subsided from having been dragged very much 'oop north' for a weekend at Vicki & Tina's cottage in the Lakes. Fortunately in a small town called Hawkshead, very thoughtful of them to buy somewhere that would remind them of us every day. Having vetoed the initially unlikely plan of lots…
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Where did the summer go?
Heeeeeeeelp! One minute the sun finally comes out and we all breathe a sigh of relief that finally we can get our pedicures done and dig the three quarter length trousers out of the cupboard. Jeans, boots and black socks consigned to their various shelves and drawers, and probably unsuitably short shorts then resurrected in the vain…
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Maltby Street Market
Got a free Saturday morning on your hands? Then have a butchers at Maltby Street Market, if you've not been that way before. Mr H & I cycled (Yes, cycled. On an actual bike. Each. And both ways) there the other weekend. Whooshed past a million tourists just as Big Ben struck 12 noon (major bonging)…
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Dog Days
You know you are getting old and tragic when: – you come back from a weekend away with seemingly no shots of you and your partner actually together – which you then realise is because you now avoid cameras like the plague, unless you are standing very, very far away – and that your dog…
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Results…..hmmm
Have to say, have been knocked a bit for 6 by my results this week. As ever, it's like doing a jigsaw with pieces missing, with your eyes shut and using someone else's hands to try and work out what the new information means, but no matter which way I look at it, it's not massively good news.…