Diary
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Dossy Sunday
Woke up yesterday and watched lots of uninterrupted rugby (what a treat) then we headed off to Cambridge for a spot of lunch, bit of a browse and some shopping and then back C & D’s for a roast. Lurvely! Saw this busker in Cambridge yesterday – what is he on?? Captions please? Continue reading
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Weekend off
Emma has gone to chris & derek’s for the weekend so we’re mooching. We’ve had nice hike followed by a beer in the pub! Continue reading
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Premium Rush
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhUiCnziSE[/tube] Not sure about the story for this new film which stars Joseph Gordon-levitt who plays a bicycle messenger who is being chased around New York City by a dirty cop who wants an envelope back…. The action looks good and apparently Danny MacAskill did some of the stunts. Continue reading
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Bletchley Park
Al & I had a fantastic day at Bletchley Park. It was absolutely fascinating to learn all about the code-breakers who deciphered the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. I was also fascinated to read about Alan Turing who not only devised the method of the bombe, a machine which could find Continue reading
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Emma Swims a Width
Got to go with a swim with the girls on Saturday morning and Emma was able to show me how well she’s doing at swimming. She’s been having lessons for a while now and the whole class are now able to swim without their armbands. Sorry about the quality of the video the camera was Continue reading
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Lovely evening
Come camping with the caples in Buckinghamshire for the weekend. Just enjoying a few beers and a barbie. Lurvely! Continue reading
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Lewis’s first day at School
Lewis had his first day at school on Wednesday. He looks so cool! Continue reading
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Hanna
Hanna and her father live in northern Finland. Isolated from society, Hanna has been trained by her father to be bilingual assassin. Now she is 16 she tells her father she is ready for the mission she has trained for, to avenge the death of her mother. This is ok. It sort of reminds me Continue reading
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Framlingham Castle
Last Sunday we met up with the Corkys at a Chilly Framlingham Castle. There was a medieval event on but I think the girls had the best fun rolling down the embankments around the castle. Poor old honey bear is off on his own! The girls had a lovely time trying on hats at a Continue reading
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Last Weekend
Its been a busy week hence my rather late blog! Last weekend we went to a great barbie at Spuds (Cheers mate!) and on Sunday we had a lovely day out at Audley End House. The weather was gorgeous and we had a great time picnicing and hanging out in the beautiful grounds and gardens. Continue reading
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New (?) Hammock
About twenty years ago I bought a K a hammock and we’ve never put it up. Its been in the shed and in the loft all that time. Anyway the other evening Emma was saying she wants a hammock in her room rather than a bed and that reminded us about the never hung hammock Continue reading
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Keep Your Head Up
Lovely new song from the forthcoming album by Ben Howard. The videos really cool it looks the best fun! [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADP65wbBUpc&feature=player_embedded[/tube] Continue reading
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Concrete Circus
Danny MaCaskill’s new film Industrial Revolutions is fantastic I can’t stop watching it. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShbC5yVqOdI[/tube] This film was featured as part of the concrete Circus project which was shown on Channel 4 last Monday. the program shows three other urban sports, skateboarding, freerunning and bmx flatland. All the films are fascinating and you can see them Continue reading
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Home Alone
The Girls are away in Sunny Swindon so I’m Home alone all week. I’m a bit lonely, but is nice to doss. I’ve been extremely busy this afternoon waiting for the washing to dry. 🙂 Continue reading
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Paul
Graham and Clive are two sci-fi nerds who, after visiting Comic-con hire an RV and go on a road trip visiting all the sites of Extraterrestrial events. One night they are nearly involved in a car crash and there they meet Paul, an alien on the run from government agents. Loved it! I think I Continue reading
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London Riots
Its so shocking to see the rioting in London over the last few nights. It does annoy me when you read the opinion of some bloggers who say these people are rioting because they are “People to whom respect has never been shown riot because they feel they have little reason to show respect themselves” Continue reading
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Subway Sinatra
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoOwCSgvNs0[/tube] For four years construction workers have been making a lot of noise whole they are building a new subway down Manhattans East side. In a bid to cheer up the locals, one of the workers Gary Russo, has been spending some of his lunch break singing Sinatra songs. “Extraordinary scenes followed. A man apparently Continue reading
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Off Sick
Having a sick day today. Been having quite a few heart palpatations lately and I had quite a long one driving to work this morning and I had to pull over as it left me feeling a bit light headed. I’ve been fine cycling to work etc. So I’m off to the docs soon to Continue reading
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Hereafter
This film tells three parallel stories about people affected by death in different ways; George, a reluctant psychic, Marie, who survives a near-death experience during a tsunami and Marcus, a British boy who wants to communicate with his dead brother, Jason. The central character is George(Damon) and how his psychic abilities have affected him and Continue reading
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Nice Weekend
The Caples were over this weekend. The weather was gorgeous and we went to a vintage rally at West Bergholt. It was dead good, plenty for the kids to do, stunt shows and lots and lots of classic cars to see. In the petting area with the rabbits and guinea pigs. Continue reading
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Crazy Dude
Al went for it this time and cycled the entire 145 miles to here from Swindon in 10 hrs 4 minutes. Well done mate! Continue reading
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Photos of the London Blitz
Amazing set of colour photos showing the destruction inflicted by Nazi bombings across London. Continue reading
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127 Hours
This film is based on Aron Ralstons account of when his arm is trapped by a falling rock while hiking alone in The Canyonlands National Park in Utah. Its an incredible account of Aron’s Psychological journey to finally making the decision to amputate his arm to save his life. When we watched the film I Continue reading
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Last Weekend
On Sunday we met up with the Caples at Gullivers in slightly damp Milton Keynes. Gulliver’s is a theme park for little ones and we had a really good day, the kids loved it. Notice Emma’s grumpy face in this picture she was thoroughly embarrassed by the mums singing along and doing the actions to Continue reading
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The History of the Space Shuttle
A fascinating set of photos looking at the history of the Space Shuttle. Continue reading
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K’s Birthday
It was K’s birthday yesterday so we met up with the Corky’s, the Spurgeon’s and the Caple’s at Hampstead Heath for a picnic. It was a wonderful day, the kids had a whale of a time. It was a yummy picnic and the pub afterwards was lurvely. more pics Continue reading
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Nice Weekend
I know I’m a bit late blogging this but we had a lovely weekend! Saturday we mooched and watched Tangled. Sunday we met up with the Corkys down at Chappel and had a picnic and then they came back for a barbie it was a gorgeous day about 27 degrees Monday though was really hot Continue reading
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Tangled
“Rapunzel” renamed as “Tangled” this is an excellent film. It feels just like a classic Disney film, really funny with some great characters (I really liked Maximus the horse). We all enjoyed it – Emma was really laughing. Emma’s score 12/10 website Continue reading