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Tanktastic Piggery
So – had my first birthday present/treat last weekend, courtesy of Janine and Ross – a 1/2 day multi-tank driving experience – marvellous! Tootled off with camera-wielding J down to Winchester area and got behind the controls (no steering wheels, all manoeuvred by metal 'sticks') of a couple of different tanks. I rather liked the…
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Aces Go Large in Epsom
It's taken about a week to recover from last Saturday's Aces night out. Well, when I say 'night out' I mean 'all day bender' as our matches tend to be at 10am… and the team don't like playing then going home and coming back out again… so we just shoved some ham and cheese rolls…
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Lucky Scrumpy
Wimbledon Common is basically an outdoor tardis. I have lived next to it for 25 years and yet it still rolls out surprises pretty much every time we go there. Including this week – went off down a different path and somehow a ginormous new lake was shining in early autumnal glory before us. Much…
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Sophie Green on R&R
Fri eve saw Sophie's brief return from her 6 month RAF deployment in Dubai – well, really she is covering a whole lot of highly undesirable volatile middle east countries including Afghan and Iraq, so the 'based in Dubai' bit is a bit misleading – I suspect she's not quite holed up in the Jumeirah…
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San Sebastian – Hola!
Just back from a top weekend in San Sebastian with Janine and Ross – must have been as I seem to have put on a whopping 6lbs in a mere 4 nights! Well worth it though, I reckon.. Managed to get…
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Day out with godson Oliver and the girls
As poor Jon White was incarcerated in Harefield Hospital for his heart op this weekend (all went well, leaky valve and small hole in the heart all dealt with) and Claire needed to go up and see him, Mr H and I stepped in to take the kids out for the afternoon. Cue Mr H…
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Revealing leftie
Urgh – took the main bandage off poor leftie last night – what a bruised delight lay beneath it. Thank god it's on the mend – am about to go and see the rheumatologist this morning to tell him…
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To move or not to move?
Blimey – just when I thought we'd finally decided that we would stay put in Stroud Road and upgrade the house a bit to make it feel a bit newer and fresher (well, I think I have been here nearly 20 years now!), Mr H and I had a chat while ambling round the Common…
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Poor Old Lefty
Am feeling very slightly dejected at the prospect of losing the services of my beloved left hand for the next week or two, and then it being below par for the next couple of months as the carpal tunnel surgery heals. I go into the New Vic Hosp at 1pm today. That'll be no hockey…
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Right hand, meet left hand..
Remember that nice gory picture of my right hand when I had carpal tunnel surgery at the end of June? Well, the surgeon bloke who at the time said 'nearly everyone who gets this in one hand will get it in the other', is sadly all too right. Poor left hand (my rather treasured, dominant…