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Ah, always a bit sad writing this on 2nd Jan when the seasonal fun is pretty much all over red rover.<\/p>\n

But, it was good while it lasted. Started with a bit of 'god, do people really still do that?' amusement up by the Hand in Hand when the Morris dancers came out to play on Boxing Day. A mixture of surreal weirdness and slight pride that this strange old British tradition still goes ahead, thwack whack!<\/p>\n

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From there, down to the west country for 3 nights in a very nice little Airbnb – and of course, the annual visitation from Mr J Nurse, just in case we ran out of conversation. Scrumpy dog very happy to have a third pair of jeans to make absolutely filthy with her joyous mud-filled paws.<\/p>\n

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Spent our last night there watching Bath play Wasps, top notch seats right behind the goal posts, thanks to Batch, lots of rugby muscles and taut derrieres to admire – oh yes, and the game itself – ta very much.<\/p>\n

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Check out the 'Queue-Buster' 2 pint jugs of beer they sell there – part of our downfall that evening. Thank god for the inevitable curry at midnight or the next day would have been a total washout. Very amusingly, Batch's chum – Nicky on the right below – asked H who had done his knee replacement – turned out it that Fairbanks is her ex-husband! Small, bizarre world at times..<\/p>\n

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From Bath we headed back eastwards, via the fish place in Portsmouth to buy a pile of giant prawns and two large turbots (as you do), to take to Janine & Ross's cottage<\/p>\n

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All lovely, cosy and festive – and two good nights were had by all.<\/p>\n

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And a good job that only lucky Simon next door was treated to our annual terrible rendition of Auld Lang Syne at midnight….<\/p>\n

Happy New Year, all you wonderful people x x <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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