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Well, Hello Helsinki!
Just back from the first early birthday jaunt, this one with the wonderful Fitz, Lyds and Hatch to….Helsinki! What a complete hoot.. Most ‘Finnish’ activities being two different sea water pools with saunas, where you do, literally, jump into the freezing Baltic Sea, then let it in to the sauna to defrost. God knows what…
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Cracking Weekend Walk
Went back with J&R to the excellent walk under Seven Sisters, on Saturday. Perfec5 distance, nice and flat and lots of waterways en route for the dogs to swim in. Just the right number of amusing Asian tourists and young families on the way, who seemingly find dogs in the water very watchable… Also a…
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Guess who….
Found the sticky bud bush up on the golf course just now?? #happyaslarry #pestilentialhound #mummyspentagespickingthemout #scumpyalmostlostanipplefromexcessivegrooming xx
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Weird Coincidences..
So – the new neighbours who are moving in to 24 Dora Road, next door to us, popped round the other day to say hello. They are currently renting and living in their previously-owned property, while work is being done on Dora Rd. They could obviously have been moving here from anywhere in the UK,…
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David & Mandy Weekend
What a weekend, David & Mandy came down from Harrogate to bask in the Dora Road sun and give the gin cupboard a good battering.. Started with a recreation of a good night we had with them in Manchester, in a Mexican restaurant – decided to turn Dora into Little Tijuana for the night. Mix…
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Hockey World Cup
Well, the last time I saw England (or was it GB?) play, they lost and there were floods of tears everywhere e- from the players, not me. And last night Soph kindly took me to the Hockey World Cup to see England play the Netherlands – well, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion as…
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This Morning’s Mystery
Have just come down to find an entire unopened box of Ferrero Rocher on the lawn. Not ours. A gift from the neighbourhood foxes to make up for the noise they…
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LASIK Eye Surgery Tomorrow
Here’s hoping that today is the last day I will own a box of contact lenses and be borrowing Cathy’s useful if slightly Germanic distance glasses…. Eye surgery is tomorrow, arriving at at 7.40am (random time!) I should have much better sight within 24 hours although it could take 3-6 months to stop using eye…
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Big Night at Dora
Had Nicky and Jules, Tina and Vicki and Sophie with her new GIRLFRIEND (for some reason she kees writing this in capitals) round for Saturday supper this weekend. Not entirely sure why but the girls decided to locate two sets of tops that I have that are similar (ok, one of them I do actually…
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How Many Crowthers….?
… can you get on the new sofa? Answer: All of them! And Scrumpy too, who managed to tread on all three sets of the male ‘family jewels’ as she scampered across the various laps… Just finished afternoon tea – at 6.30 – with Fitz as well and some very nice homemade chocolate brownies. Not…