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Into the Woods
Having seen a couple of not-so-good (borderline total rubbish) things at the theatre of late, here’s one that stood out in a good way! Fi very kindly got me a ticket to Into the Woods at the Bridge Theatre for my birthday last Oct and when the date rolled round the cast was stricken with…
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Easter In Harrogate
On our way back from a really lovely three days and nights in Harrogate with David & Mandy. Kicked off with one of the best meals I’ve had in a very long time, at a restaurant they’ve been to several times and which we finally managed to squeeze our way into too. Started off with…
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Mr H Turns 61…
OK, I’ll fess up right now – I managed to give Hawksey a tummy bug that I got 4 days before his birthday, the night before his birthday… eeeeek. So, some of the birthday bookings – such as the seafood dinner in Soho – were amended to a night at the Hand in Hand, and…
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9 days in Puerto Rico
In trying to avoid going to the US this year – for obvious orange-tinged reasons – we ended up in a partial US territory, that felt at times like being in Miami’s Little Havana, given the Spanish-ness with tinges of American-ness of the whole experience. Started off our trip in San Juan – where we…
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Dad’s 100th Birthday Get Together
It seemed a good idea, in the middle of last year, to offer to host the Scott family get together at our house, to celebrate what would have been Dad’s 100th birthday. It then felt slightly less of a good idea as Hawksey & I spent most of this week wondering and worrying about what…
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Creeping towards Spring
This week’s highlight after getting back from France was getting together with the AV5 for Clare G’s birthday. Which we celebrated, for the first time ever for any of the five of us, on her actual birthday. Kicked off with cocktails at The Escapologist in Seven Dials, where luckily it was another table’s drinks that…
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Une Semaine en France
Just back from a week in France, mainly to go and visit H’s brother Tim and our sis-in-law Mel at their (not so, now) new house in Peuman, near Champagne Mouton. About 1.5 hours drive inland from Bordeaux or quite a long 7 hour drive from the Tunnel for us, as we took Mads along…
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Rotterdam Tennis
What more glamorous event could there be than 3 nights in February in grey rainy Rotterdam? It was at least made much more thrilling due to Janine & I having two sets of tickets for the ATP tennis, held at the Ahoy (so Dutch..) stadium. And we certainly walked round most of the city it…
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A Week of Gingerness and A Small Godson
We currently have the furry insanity of Miss Lottie the golden doodle staying with us for 12 days, while her daddies Mark & Charlie are in South Africa, the lucky sods. After the first night of trying to settle her to sleep in the utility room with (a very unimpressed) Maddie, and trying the ‘slap…
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My 100th Velcade cycle
One of the nurses at CCL sidled over to me and said – did you know that this is your 100th cycle of Velcade this month? Obviously, no, as I don’t count the buggers, I just turn up week after week to have them! I asked if this meant that I would get a cake…