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98 & 99 – TICK!
Surprise! Much as I'm not due back from Nepal & Bhutan till this coming Thursday, I am in fact – home. Having done the whistlestop tour of Kathmandu and surrounds, then 6 days in Bhutan, I found myself in the mysterious position of – wanting to come back! Heavily influenced by the fact that I…
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So, I tried Qatar Airways for this trip to Kathmandu and have got as far as the lounge in deserty Doha. Always a joy to land somewhere at 3.15am UK time, cheeeeeers. All majorly beige as you come in to land, that'll be the endless sand then. Makes Dubai look variegated… But all is suitably…
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Off I go…
Heading off shortly for Kathmandu, via Doha (yes indeed, I had to look it up too – Qatar was the answer). Two days there on my lonesome before the intrepid (for that read 'lots of endless stories about how we conquered Everest') mountain goat explorers arrive and we spend a bit more time in the…
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Pet progress!
Well, its a whole 7 months since Scrumpy arrived. First as a small black & white scrap, that the incumbent Mojo towered over, and now, the muscle mountain of prime dogness that she is, generally to be found either stalking poor '1/5 of her size' Mojo around the bikes by the front door and the…
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Driving down the A3…
.. something I find myself doing at least 5 times a week, reminded me to pop a plug on here for dear old Radio Jackie. A little known but actually quite good (if you're in your mid 40s) radio station that bizarrely used to – and I think still does – broadcast from the top…
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Replacing Silviya
My god, you'd never think it was so hard to find someone to fill Silviya's shoes when she goes back to Bulgaria and we need a new carer for mum. Sweetshop owners suck on their teeth when you show them the A5 ad and ask 'haven't you got one a bit smaller?'. 'No', I reply,…
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All Change on the Holiday Plans
So – it transpires (really un-handily, having booked the main big flights to and from Kathmandu), that Nicky, Sophie, Carmen & I can't actually get into Tibet for our planned trip after all. Seems to be a mixture of 'you have to come in at least a group of 5 people of the same nationality…
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Aces Crawl Upwards
Phew – played hockey yesterday with my lovely Aces team and we FINALLY managed to get our first win of the season. Yes, the season that did actually start in, um, September. Oops. Which takes us from 11th out of 12 (in the Middlesex Premier Division, so to be fair we're honestly not THAT crap)…
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Lucky Girl
So – spent yesterday trawling through the 40 or so folders on my home laptop, all containing piles – and more piles – of photos from 2012. I meant to do this pre-Xmas (started a nice tradition last year of looking back at the year's top photos on Xmas Day, and have since managed to bog it…