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Little Scout Came to Stay
We had a small furry visitor last week – and she’s back with us today too. Chum Helen is busy out & about at the moment, so her little pooch Scout came for a brief stay. She was a very good lap companion – SO much lighter than Maddie (known to us as Thunder Pants,…
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Girls’ Trip to Wiltshire
Janine & I decided to have a random girls’ night away last week, this time to what turned out to be a perfectly sunny Wiltshire! We booked Bishopstrow Hotel in Warminster, as it had a decent spa / treatments / dinner / bottle of booze / breakfast – and of course a room – offer…
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Jules & Nicky’s New Home
At last!!! After a very long few years now of selling their Putney flat, trying to sell the London Bridge flat (still ongoing) and looking for some land to build a house on, Jules & Nicky finally decided that they would buy a lovely house in the country as their new home together. Their gaff…
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Visiting Maureen
Every Wednesday afternoon makes me very grateful for Ginny & Muriel, Maureen’s two golf chums, who turn up by bus to make us a group of 4 for afternoon coffees & cakes. Maureen is mostly non-verbal now – occasionally she does say a few words, and sometimes they are the ‘right’ words, like responding to…
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Belated 6 monthly results
What with all this blog switching malarkey, I didn’t have a chance to stick my twice-a-year test results on here, till now. And – hurrah – they were actually slightly better this time than the last 2 times! A year ago, the PET CT was clear but one of the 2 things they check in…
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Oliver Turns 18!
Wow. That was a day that I absolutely never thought I would still be here to see. I remember Claire asking me to be Oliver’s godmother when he was born and Hawksey and I heading up to his christening in Hull not long afterwards. It wasn’t long after that, that I was diagnosed with myeloma…
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Weekends Away – and more Social!
We also managed to snaffle a couple of days away, firstly with Mark & Charlie, who have rented an AirB&B in Somerset for a whopping 40 nights this year! Very clear why – it was beautifully appointed, with two very smart rooms, kitchen, large lounge and set in a very large garden with many –…
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AV5 At The Coot
What summer would be complete without an AV5 girls’ trip to the cottage? Despite the pretty dismal weather forecast we were pretty lucky overall, managing the snaffle cheeky cocktails in the garden on the Fri eve before being ‘encouraged’ (by the rain) to eat indoors. Watched over by the triffid-like hollyhocks – check out those…
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The Rest of A Nice August
Iām a whole month behind in my Posts due to the horror of the enforced move out of Typepad, so here goes with a whirlwind review of some of the lovely things that later August heralded! The delectable Barnes Boys came over for a long overdue dinner, which was a joy as always. Dominic talking…
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Chums A Go-go
It's been – another – whirlwind week of social, medical, canine and feline. Kicked off with Pam driving up from Totnes, where she now lives with her new lady (I say 'new', it's almost a year now but as they live in Devon I've only met Deni once!). Very good to have a much overdue…