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Mum’s Xmas Lunch
As Mum is off to stay with Cathy in Holland for Xmas from this Friday, I invited some of her 'oldies' from church over for an early Xmas lunch this Sunday. Agonised over what to cook – would lamb too too hard for more elderly choppers? But pulled it off, despite poor Michael – 95…
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Aces Hockey Xmas Bash
Having trogged to the rather unlovely Quentin Hogg sports ground in Chiswick on Saturday, I was treated to one of the crappiest hockey matches I've seen in a while. 70 minutes of definitely not our best play and at one point we were 0-1 down. Luckily, the girls then remembered that it was our Xmas…
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Thanksgiving Weekend in NY
You gotta love NY over Thanksgiving weekend. We last went 3 tears ago for Janine's 50th and found ourselves back there as a foursome, last weekend. H and I got in on the Wed eve, and were pretty bloody chilly for 24 hours until our extra bag saviours arrived with coats, hats, boots and…
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Grenadines – The Pix
Seems hard to believe that just last week we plus John Nurse were basking in lovely temperatures in the Grenadines and staring at my very favourite shade of turquoise water, everywhere around us. Managed to get to the majority of the best Grenadines Islands in our 9 days - St Vincent, Bequia, Mayreau, the Tobago Cays, Petit Tabac, Palm Island, Union Island, Happy…
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Phoneless In NY
Said our goodbyes to a Nursey, the boat, the turtles and the lovely warmth, and flew from the Grenadines on Wed eve into NY. The biting wind as we waited in the cab line a reminder that we weren’t in sunny Kansas any more, Toto….. Luckily Janine and Ross arrived with our bag of coats,…
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Grenadines A GoGo
Well, it might not quite be the right way up, but here is this morning’s rather delightful snorkelling stop. Sandy Island, near Carriacou in the southern Grenadines. Sorry for the slight break in transmission – Typepad helpfully suspended my account with no warning.…
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I’m Going to Kill Him…
After 11 months without a doorbell (thanks to our crap builder last year), and despite my repeated pleas to just get a normal £10 bell from Amazon or whatever, Mr H gleefully finally installed his all singing all dancing, ENTIRELY ANNOYING fancy schmancy cost a fortune Ring bell yesterday. And has clearly thought it highly…
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Nicky & Jules’ Welcome Back Lunch
Spent most of yesterday sorting the house and creating mountains of food for Nicky & Jules's welcome back to the UK lunch. Hard to believe it was a whole year they were away, cycling the Americas, even they were saying 'nothing's changed'… …
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Final Birthday Supper
As ever, have managed to eke the birthday celebrations out, over about the past 3 weeks. Final effort was Friday eve, at the Telegraph Pub in Putney. First sighting of Nicky & Jules since their return to the UK from their year away cycling the Americas. Both still looking trim and fit, though hopefully the…
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Fireworks Night
Ah, there's something so British about putting your wellies on, ambling up the road with thousands of other people in their hats, coats and scarves (me with my coat open, revealing t-shirt beneath, as quite frankly, it wasn't actually cold). All heading up to the local park to stand with heads back and mouths open,…