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Miami-a-tee!
Well, technically it was the Crystal River, north of Tampa, but who cares? The second half of Florida week was set off to a 'tee' for me, by the trip to swim with manatees. And here is one of the gorgeous, floppy hoover-nosed, 13 foot long beasties. Much more interested in chewing the plant life…
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Fab Florida So Far
We decided to stay in Florida for Girls Week this year and so far have had a complete hoot. I’ll spare you the 20 hours or so spent in various shopping malls so far (highly successful, may need a third suitcase soon) – here are a few of the highlights thus far. …
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Barbecue on the Terrace
Delighted to have Claire and Jon and Pam and Jude over for a bbq supper on the terrace last night. So nice to have a bit more space to entertain, and trees in the background instead of a dozen neighbours’ houses. …
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Time for Tennis
You know summer is finally here when you find yourself with an illicit ‘coffee cup’ filled with chilled Pimms, perched up on banked seating, in the baking sun, frazzling despite Factor 30 and dozing gently on occasion to the sound of ‘thwack’ below – in this case the opening day of the tennis at Queens.…
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Sarah and Paul Taylor’s 50ths
Went down to sunny Kent on Sat. Took Mum out for lunch first in Margate, but not one of her better days, all a bit quiet and not chatty, making it all a bit hard work, trying to pry conversation out of her and perk her up. But things picked up immensely at Paul and…
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Cheeky Curry
Well that was a first – a Friday night out in perhaps.not-everyone’s-immediate-association-with-interesting-food, Stoneleigh. All to visit a new curry house, Dastaan, and a good chance to catch up with the Epsomites, Claire & Jon and Swighty and Woodsie. Shame Pam and Jude couldn’t join us – some old tosh about having to work on a…
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We are In!
Finally, at 5.30pm yesterday the previous owners of 22 Dora took their last possessions and left – and the place was ours. Scrumpy wasted no time in checking out her new lawn, with some frenzied rolling. And of course the obligatory first poo… managed to get the first dozen or so boxes unpacked, find the…
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Coot Night
Waiting to move into a new house is like being at the airport when you’re off on holiday – there’s something nice coming but it’s taking aaaaaages for it to actually start. So we were invited down to the cottage to gatecrash Clare and Andy’s weekend with J&R, to help make the time go faster.…
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House Move Day 1
You hae to be a pretty good driver to be able to squeeze a giant yellow van into just two residents parking spaces and wedge it perfectly under a not very handy gnarly tree…And Burke and Wills still makes me think of Burke and Hare every time I see it, you’d get a…
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I Like To Move It, Move It..,.
Bloody hell, if all goes as planned tomorrow and we exchange as expected, we only have 4 more nights left to sleep at Stroud Road. We are moving out this Thursday (7th), completing on the Friday on our sale, spending the weekend camping at Janine & Ross’s and then moving into the new house on…