Diary
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Girls Day Out in London
As part of K’s Birthday Celebration K, Chris, Hatty, Helen & Alex had a day out in London. Visiting Greenwich, doing a bit of shopping and going on the Emirates Airline, a cable car that crosses the Thames near the O2. Emirates Airline O2 Helen & Alex Hatty & Chris Continue reading
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Emma Rides her Bike
So proud of Emma tonight. We took her to Colne Engaine on Monday night and she was straight off on her bike and tonight we’ve been over near the airfield and she did really well, cycling quite a long way and doing figure of eights. So we’re right proud of her! As you can see Continue reading
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Self Parking Car
Volvo have developed a car which allows you to pull up at a car park, get out, instruct the car to park via an app on your phone, it then finds a space, parks itself and when you return, again, via your app, you can instruct it to leave the parking space and meet you Continue reading
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Self Parking Car
Volvo have developed a car which allows you to pull up at a car park, get out, instruct the car to park via an app on your phone, it then finds a space, parks itself and when you return, again, via your app, you can instruct it to leave the parking space and meet you Continue reading
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Cley Windmill
Its K’s 40th next week so I treated her to a weekend at the Windmill in Cley by The Sea in Norfolk. We had a fantastic time. We actually stayed in “Dovecote” which is a converted stable next to the windmill. The breakfasts were lurvely and we really needed a good walk down to the Continue reading
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World War Z
Former UN Employee Gerry Lane (Pitt)and his family are stuck in traffic in Philadelphia when the zombie outbreak hits. Using his contacts he manages to get him and his family evacuated to an Air Craft Carrier moored off New York while the worldwide outbreak takes hold Killing millions of people. Lane is an ex investigator Continue reading
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Last Weekend
Last weekend the Girls went to the Scout camp at Thorrington with the Rainbows. They had a great time on climbing walls, zip wires, crate stacking and singing around a campfire. While the girls were out Dad and I went for bike ride. Dad did 12 miles, so the old boys not doing too bad! Continue reading
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Zero Dark Thirty
The story centres on Maya, a CIA officer who has spent her entire career in pursuit of Osama Bin Laden. Like Hurt Locker I think this film is character study of people who are in an all consuming role. unfortunately you never really now much about Mayas character outside of her obsession with Bin laden Continue reading
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Shed News
Despite not having a lot of time to spend on it lately, shed construction is coming along OK. The first coat of paint is on, needs a door and guttering and then I can start to sort the inside out and take the old Pergola down. Continue reading
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Danny MacAskill’s New Film
Imaginate Watch out for the outtakes at the end – ouch! Continue reading
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More Pics from Wales
View from the patio of the house where we stayed On a walk out of Betws-y-Coed Bodnant gardens – Amazing! A Spot of Croquet Dahling? Continue reading
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Tŷ Celyn
While in Wales we were able to visit Tŷ Celyn The Williams family Farm and the birthplace of my grandmother. It was fantastic to see Gwenda and to meet her son Eilir and Liz who now run the farm. It was really cool to walk around the farm and to hear dads memories about when Continue reading
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Attraction – Shadow Theatre Group
Hatty showed us this today – Amazing! [tube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Fv98jttYA[/tube] Continue reading
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Aber Falls
Lovely day yesterday visiting Plas Newydd Country House on Anglesey and walking to Aber Falls. The weather was pretty good all day but it rained on us when walked to the falls Continue reading
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Soggy in Conwy
We’re in not at all sunny Wales! The cottage is lovely really, really nice place but yesterday the weather was atrocious. We still had a good day visiting Conwy. The Castle is really interesting and the town is nice with quite a few individual shops. Looking at the weather I think the worst is over Continue reading
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View of The Thames
From the strangely named pub “Bishop out of Residence” in Kingston upon Thames. Continue reading
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Tigers 37 – 17 Saints
Got here finally it took us 4 hours! We missed half of the first half and sadly the Saints lost so all a bit of a disaster really but still an entertaining game. Now… Off to the pub! N.B A panoramic shot of the stadium. Click on it to see it full size. Continue reading
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Weekend In Southwold
We had a great weekend in Southwold with Mel, Gareth and their kids Amelia and Rex. Despite it raining most of the day Friday we had a mooch and in the evening we went to the Harbour Inn which was very welcome! Saturday was pretty chilly and dull but we explored the town and mooched Continue reading
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London 1927
Claude Friese-Greene shot these scenes in colour around London in 1927. Continue reading