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Clogs & Scotts
It's been a knackering week! Cathy and the two smallest nieces arrived last Sunday and promptly proceeded to denude London, and especially Primark, of all its shopping opportunities. The hall has 8 pairs of new trainers alone in it, not to mention the piles of new joggers, pyjamas, t-shirts, socks etc etc. Eeek – who…
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Hockey Girls Soiree
Last Sat saw a reunion of the hockey girls trio – plus these days Soph's fab partner Jane and little baby Martha! Add in Mojo and Maddie and it was a full house of females… Popped out to the very…
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Birthday Week (Fortnight?!) Beginneth
And so it begins…. vicious rumour has it that my 54th birthday is impending. Eeeeeek! So started with lunch yesterday, with 'the Helens' – Tebay and Vickery – down in HT's neck of the woods, Sevenoaks, as she was technically on call with her school. Ms Vickery happily already on half term and relishing the…
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Artsy Trip to Bristol
Booked a girls' night away to the Artists Residence Hotel in Bristol this week, while Mr H was away on his week's survival course (yes, really) with Jules. Interesting to get a feel for a city neither Janine nor I knew at all, with the key learnings being that its very grungy as you drive…
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Sunny Cooty Weekend
Just love it when an October weekend at the coot is all sun, sun, sun!! Made up for the mini disaster of me scraping my car door very thoroughly down the bulge in the wall that I had forgotten was there, just as I parked up.. Apart from that, had 3 lovely nights away –…
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Houston and New Orleans, Yee Haw!
Just back from our 9 days in the US – which oddly felt like quite a bit longer (in a good way!). Packed in a lot of random, bizarre, local hokey and entertaining stuff across the two cities and the vast expanse of backwater nothingness in between… So in vague chronological order – here it…
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Off to See Billy!!!
Eeek – we are heading off to Houston tomorrow morning for a 9 day trip to the US. All built around the main purpose of (hopefully!!!!) seeing Billy Joel in concert there this Friday eve. I'm still somewhat bricking it that he will get Covid, or lose his voice or something else disastrous, but with…
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Mel’s 50th
Good night out this weekend for my sister in law, Mel's, 50th birthday. All of us slightly startled to be beginning the evening in B@1 on Greek Street, which was humming as if it was midnight! Worked out that there as a happy hour till 6pm, so the 'young people' (sadly we are definitely no…
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Maddie, Meet the Sea. The Sea, Meet Maddie…
H and I snaffled a couple of nice nights at the coot on our own this week (thanks J&R) and took the chance to take Miss Maddie down to Climping, to see what she might make of the beach and sea. The beach definitely went down very well – cue lots of mad puppy runs,…
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Birthday Tea for Jo
It seems that 2022 is a big birthday year for both the older ladies whom I visit – having hosted Maureen for an 85th birthday supper of fish & chips in July, last week heralded Jo's turn – just a whippersnapper turning 75 though. Jo's choice for a birthday 'thing' was – amusingly – a…