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  • Spot of Party Planning

    Should I… shouldn't I… can I pull my finger out and get it done…. or not…. do I go biggish… or smaller…. will anyone come… do we need music… or are we too old… what time will everyone need to go to rescue their children/babysitters/dependent elderly relatives/dogs/cats/own livers?   So many questions… but I think…

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  • Bye Bye Boatie

    Ah……. after many many years, Mr H has finally said his last fond farewell to 'Boaty'. We have officalyl sold our sailing boat. An he did so in the usual Boat-trip style – with a plan to spend a lovely weekend in great summer weather, sailing to a specifically chosen destination. Which, as ever, was…

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  • From Dog to Chat-eau

    OK, tenuous link but wanted to pop up the photo of the place I was facilitating in yesterday – a rather spendiferous chateau. Was running a big Insight Workshop thing-y for Pernod Ricard just outside Paris. Not entirely the best place for a group of 70 clients (mmm where exactly do you stick flipchart if…

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  • Wounded Dogbeast

    Check out this photo – one rather sad and sorry for herself Scrumpy, having come off worst from an encounter with something unknown but razor sharp yesterday, in the undergrowth on Wimbledon Common. Well, she does tend to hurtle at breakneck speed into anything without looking, so it was only a matter of time – and…

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  • Cottage and South of England Show

    Blimey – just had a fantastically rural weekend, down at the cottage in West Sussex – this time with the full monty 'ooh arr' add-on of a day at the South of England Show. A humungously massive place with endless entertainmant – animals, smells, obscure races and edible pork products a gogo. Man, how good was that…

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  • Le French Open

    Had a very nice weekend with Mr H and Les Capons, pottling round Paris and heading to see the tennis. OK, so it seems my suggestion of visiting the French Sewers (yes, a museum – really) proved to be the least popular petit-voyage, as instead of being somewhat reminiscent of the Phantom of the Opera…

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  • Mr H’s Recovery

    … is going rather slowly. Having had his op last Saturday, the copious groaning and emanating of pain from the top floor hasn't started to subside as yet. Think it was rather more grim and long-lasting than either of us had quite expected. He's caught between being proud that he had 3 whopping pile-nasties removed (the…

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  • Brighton Breezy

    Very nice day yesterday – nipped down sur le train to sort of sunny Hove – well, if you have a good imagination (and a thick puffa) anyway. Had a great ctach up lunch with Fi McNae (ex Added Value chum) and Janine – nattering away in the Ginger Pig over a very fine lunch.…

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