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Mr H’s Birthday supper
Popped out to Gazette in Putney for H’s birthday dinner last night. The Monday Special? Chateaubriand with frites for a bijou £15 a Head. Added to the huge bone marrow and steak tartare starters, it seemed to hit the ‘man meat’ button spot on. Big cheers to Jules, Nicky, Ash & Nursey for keeping me…
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Manchestaaaaaa
Just back from a weekend in Manchestaaaaaa with David and Mandy, mostly chosen for a posh dinner booking at Manchester House restaurant, where they’d been a few months back. Initial ‘interesting’ start as we hunted for our Airbnb, which turned out to be opposite a very shabby looking pub called the Rovers Return, apparently ‘run…
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On The Move?
So, we’ve been toying with the idea of moving house for a few years now but it’s been a bit stop-start due to my health stuff and the difficulty in finding the right house for us. Not least because I’ve been in Stroud Rd for not far off 25 years now – good grief –…
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Joys of the Jet Washer
So sad, so middle aged – so much unexpected pleasure to be got from turning filthy green garden paving into neutral clean ones again. 6 months of having our shed in the main garden space due to our evil neighbours' kitchen extension being built, resulted in major frogspawn and mouldiness all over the garden tiles.…
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Anyone for squash?
Had an unusual Monday night as a young chap called Chris Simpson came to stay for a few days. He is the son in law of our Harrogate chums, David & Mandy, and is a professional squash player. Currently coming back from a hip operation, so having to play in qualifying rounds of tournaments where…
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Morning Glory
What start-of-the-day joys can possibly beat sitting on the edge of your car seat in the soulless B&Q car park, eating a grim sausage sandwich from a kebab death van, waiting for the council dump to open? #cerealwouldvebeenbetter #gristlyshocker #freelancelifeatitsfinest
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Womble Snowbeast
Just back from ‘bracing’ (bloody freezing) walk with the hound on the Common. Not sure Scrumpy knows quite what to make of snow….
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Mum visit today
Took Mr H down to Yoakley House for his first visit to see Mum in her new home. He was pleasantly surprised at how nice it was there. More importantly, Mum seems to be about as content as we could hope for – mostly down to the nice food and the friendly staff. Here she…