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  • Harrogate & The Great Yorkshire Show

    Am sitting on the train as I type, with H, on our way back from 4 nights up in Harrogate at David & Mandy's lovely home. Lots of reasons to visit – starting with a nice bottle of Ruinart to celebrate David having sold his IFA business into a larger provider, step one on the…

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  • 2 nights with the Helens

    I just LOVE that nearly 40 years since we met at Catz, I am still such good friends with the ever wonderful Helens Tebay and Vickery.                                 And that we manage to carve out a couple of days every year…

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  • Maureen’s 86th Birthday

    Well, it took 6 months but finally the love told lady who I visit, Maureen, is in the 'right' care home (the one of her choice, not the shitty cheap one that Wandsworth Council's lazy gits dumped her in), and even better – her friends and I are now allowed to take her out if…

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  • Fi & Rich chez Hove

    Had a great weekend with the wondrous Fi McNae and Rich, down at her gaff in Hove. It was billed as a belated 'Hawksey's Birthday Weekend', complete with a fabulous powerpoint print off of all the planned activities for the full 48 hours!  We managed to yomp our way through most of them – beers…

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  • Queens with Liz

    And didn't we have a lovely sunny day for it this year! Not as utterly sweltering as 1-2 have been, but a perfect British summer's day. More than hot enough for us to polish off a jug of Pimms between us in about 5 minutes flat… oh and watch some tennis as well.    …

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  • Montenegro Girls

    Well, it was a bit of a mixed week in Monte, to say the least. Perfect weather in the UK (too hot by all accounts) but for us it was a week of thunderstorms, spots of sun (including 1 whole day!) and some torrential Med rain. Booo….. We did of course do our utmost to…

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  • Maddie Update

    Well, this will be shorter than you might have expected as basically there is still no firm news on what's up with Miss Maddington. She's now had 2 stays at the Royal Vet College and we picked her up yesterday to come home from stay 2. On the upside, after various scans and blood /…

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  • A Good Week..

    So – it's been a pretty good week all round! Mr H, brown as a berry obvs, has returned to the land of Dora from his full 6 week stint in Chiclana.                   Maddie made it back safely with H and trusty wingman Jules in the car,…

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  • Back at home

    Well, its been a wild first 10 days back at home. Day 1 – back to CCL, where AT LAST we no longer have to wear a mask to go in for chemo. There's a nurse called Leshay who has been working in the chemo suite for 3 years and this was the first time…

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  • Final Spanish visitors

    Writing this now from back in Blighty – I got home Sunday night, while Mr H is still out in Spain for another 2 weeks. Back to the joys of 2 lots of chemo and a bone marrow biopsy this week, and a PET CT scan next week – ah yes, back down to earth…

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