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Off to join H tomorrow..
… starting with a 3.40am Clarkie Cars pick up – deep joy – so hoping that Nicky & I make it hassle-free to Corsica by lunchtime tomorrow. We have 1 night in Ajaccio together before the boat should sail into harbour on Friday morning, picking us up. That's if I can heft the hugely heavy…
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Lush Long Weekend
I do love a long weekend – J&R kindly let me gatecrash their planned weekend with Clare & Andy, providing me with a Friday night on the cottage sofa, surrounded by 3 dogs, Scrumpy, Flossy & Smudge, while they were off at Chichester Theatre. Which was – unusually – pretty cack on this occasion so…
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Cap’n H is Onboard
It's weird, H first mentioned the idea of going off on Ash's boat for 2 month back at the end of last year. At which point of course it all seemed like a very long way off. And there were lots of things that would need to fall into place for it to happen, so…
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The Oldies’ Tea Party
I wasn't going to pop anything about this on here, till something I didn't expect happened yesterday. Last Sunday I hosted my first Old People's Tea Party at home, on behalf of a charity called Re-engage – ably co-hosed by Janine (thank god!). Yes, crap name for a nice charity that tries to get older…
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An Unexpected 1303..
Good grief – can this REALLY be the 1,303rd post that I've written on here? It all started way back in September 2008, so for any quanties out there, that seems to be an average of about 96 posts per year. Eeekk. Well, if you're still reading, thanks very much. There's not much else to…
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Patrick Gets Into ‘Big School’
Had a fab evening chez Mikey & Margo last Fri, to celebrate Patrick getting through all the hideous tests to apply to Big School. I had just got off the plane from Portugal so was home for all of 15 minutes to have a shower, put on clean clothes and jump in the car, as…
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A Hockey Day Out
Had a belated Swight + Clarkie birthday outing/escuse for a few beers day yesterday. Toddled to Surbiton Hockey Club to watch their 1s Ladies play Wimbledon 1s in an attempt for Wimbledon to go up the the European leagues. Hundreds of people milling about and even had to pay a £6 entry fee – don't…
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Portugal-Gals
Managed to nip off this week to sort-of-sunny Portgual with Liz T – a much needed break for her and a few nice days away for me too. Stayed at the Tivoli Marina Vilamoura hotel – a resort hotel not exactly being my usual haunt, but actually it was a very good one. (Despite it…
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Baby Martha Comes A-Visiting
Lovely visit from the new Mummies Son & Jane yesterday, with all-important baby Martha in tow. Now all of 5.5 weeks old and she was as good as gold! Lots of lovely cuddles for the rest of us.. …
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Mr H’s Birthday Weekend
Well that was a whirlwind few days! Started on Thursday with a road trip down to our favourite walk by Seven sisters. Scrumpy dragging me the whole way as she could smell the sea at the end… Hardly anyone else on the beach and the cliffs gleaming white in the unexpected bonus end of March…