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Bye Bye Farmers
After about 20 years of suffering, Mr Hawkes finally took the brave step yesterday and had his Farmers removed. Yes – Farmers. As in Farmer Giles…. are you there yet? Indeed – the Hawkes house is now piles-free. And no, he won't mind me sharing this fact as he's gone from being rather shy about…
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A spot of spa chez Barnsley House
First off – no its not the Barnsley that's oop north – this one is a small gnarledy-stone village in the Cotswolds / Cirencester area. And one for which I got a spa voucher at Christmas, with late May seemingly being the perfect time to redeem it. Although quite frankly, given the weather, we could have been…
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Le Touquet 2013
So – we went from 'we're not going to Le Touquet this year' to a large group heading off last weekend in the dismal chill, hoping against hope that the forecast would perk up – and it…
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Supreme Grossness
All hell just broke out at Chateau Hawkes. Mojo enters garden from Stage Left, with small bird clamped in feline jaws Scrumpy clocks the cat – and the prey – and deftly rips it fdrom Mojo's jaws Mojo counters, with a swiping paw from the right, rapidly repeated until Scrumpy is backed into a corner.…
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Anniversary Prezzies
So then, 2nd wedding anniversaries appear to be cotton / canvas as a theme. The big question for me was – would Hawksey prefer a picture of his dearly beloved, attentive, thoughtful and stunning wife or one of his rag-eared smelly, weeing-on-the-rug Spaniel? Clearly, no contest whatsoever in the 'I love you' stakes – so here he is with…
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Stunning Nursey Wedding
Aaaaaaah, me and the Mister had a totally fab time at Hannah & John's wedding at Berkeley Castle last weekend. Doesn't he brush up rather nicely in his Master of Ceremonies outfit? And you can even cop a look at the bride's poshy hairdo in the background… (Nice photo Nicola L!) And all the more…
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And to counter-balance that one’s lack of cheer..
Me and the Mister are off to (the people who will tomorrow become) Mr John Nurse & Mrs Hannah Nurse. (None of that 'leaving the woman's name out' bubbish for me). So we are heading off to Bristol this arvo, wedding do is at Berkeley Castle (sounds rather nice..) and then its a BBQ on Sat…
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I didn’t know this (and it’s not cheery!)
I was sent a link by Myeloma UK as its Myeloma Awareness Week, so they are hoping people will do something to raise funds and further awareness of what is still an incurable bloody disease. This one liner rather stood out for both its 'good' news (albeit from a very low base so it's…
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Nieces photo
Yes, Lily still has Cameron Diaz's wide smile (if not her 'smaile for the camera' skills) and Daisy – at last – has hair!
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A quick nip to Hollandia
As ever, managed to time my latest trip to Holland not quite perfectly, missing all the fervent orange furore over the abdication of the Queen in favour of her son by a mere 24 hours – at which point the only proof that Holland had 'gone large' in its understated Cloggy way was an acrylic flag…