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It’s ma birthday..
All the fours, fourty bleedin' four, can you adam 'n' eve it? Have just had a very nice morning (well, apart from the 6am alarm going off, thank you dear husband), opening prezzies in bed with my favourite birthday brek – toasted seedy bagel with Philly and smoked salmon. Oh, and hard tomato slices –…
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Just Bonded
Ah you gotta love James Bond. Especially when its eye-candy Daniel Criag, whipping his manshirt off every 20 minutes on the pretext of a muscle-renewing swim, a strip shave or a quick review of his many scars… Went with Hawksey (clearly a close contender for the next 008 – does he read my blogs?), Liz…
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Tunisian Highlights
Yes, with a title like that, you might well expect this post to be a pretty short one! But while it was dusty, sandy, blowy and generally the kind of weather where you find little deposits of orange sand nestled inside your bra cups at the end of the day (so the other told me),…
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96 and counting..
So – the last 5 days in Tunisia have taken the Scotty Travel Tally up to a juicy 96 countries of our fabulous world. Photos to come as I spectacularly managed to totally knacker my camera while on a muscle-battering uncomfortable camel ride in the Sahara during a freak, contact-lens-shredding sandstorm. Bleddy golden sandy stuff + digital whirry…
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Off to Tunisia
So, the Fabulous / Frightful Four ride again… Am off for 5 nights of girly mayhem in Tunisia – solely chosen as its a new country for my list, which the others – Vicki, Nicky & Sophie – have kindly agreed to go for. It starts well (BA flight at a pleasant daylight hour, rather…
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A brief moment of having the X Factor..
… well, of having two of them in a photo (James and Jahmene) plus some random sound engineer or whatever the middle bloke is. Random bumping into moment in the Corinthia Hotel after a few Friday night cocktails… Had a very sweet conversation with the little chap on the right (yes, Jahmene, for those of you as…
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Knowing our place..
So then – Mr H & I trekked out to Heathrow Terminal 5 on Sunday, to go collect 'Granny' (Mum), who's been to my sister's for the past 2 weeks, to give us a break. Having asked her what she'd been doing during the 2 weeks (mostly being pushed in a wheelchair to drop Cathy's…
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Bad Dog goes out for Dinner
So then, last night heralded two new learnings about our stinky furball. 1. She likes nibbles as much as I do – and can clean out a whirl of olives at an alarming rate of knots now she's big enough to get her huge paws up on a coffee table …
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And hockey season begins….
Blimey – anyone else noticed that its got cold and September has somehow vanished like Scrumpy after a squirrel? We've even had to turn the heating on – no mean feat these days since Hawksey turned the system from a one switch On/Off paradise into a Krypton Factor of tiny floor-level programmable mini screens (or…
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Fagging It
So, it's been a whirlwind couple of weeks. Am doing my first piece of work for BAT (British American Tobacco), as I, unlike many people, have no qualms about it's social unacceptability, given my unscrupulous and scurrilous preference for earning holiday wedge over ethics. Quite bizarre working in an industry I've never touched before – major learning…