Diary
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Photos by Emma
Tonight I went through Emma’s memory card and these are the best out of the 209 piccies that were on there. She does love to snap! Continue reading
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Winters Bone
Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) looks after her younger brother, sister and her very odd mother in a really poor area of Missouri. Her absent father has put up their house as collateral for his bail and unless he shows up for his trial in a week’s time, they will lose it. Knowing her father was… Continue reading
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Cowboys and Aliens
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NKWhhrv288[/tube] Looks good! Continue reading
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Nice Sunday
Had a nice relaxing weekend after a right busy week. Today we had a lie in, went for a walk, came back to munch cake and watch a film. lurvely! Continue reading
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Adele – Live Lounge Special
Yesterday, Adele did a half hour Live lounge special featuring new and old tracks. You can watch it here. Continue reading
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Corkys in Thailand
The Corkys have been in Thailand for the last couple of weeks and they have been sending us some fantastic pictures. Particularly this one of Liane & Livvy. Continue reading
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Black Swan
The story of Nina Sayer’s (Natalie Portman) descent into psychosis as the pressures of playing the Black Swan emotionally tears her apart. Natalie Portman portrays perfectly the unravelling of Nina as she strives to give the perfect performance of the white swan and the dark, sensual black swan. I really recommend this film. Its hard… Continue reading
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January is rubbish
Tonight I googled “January is rubbish” and got 796 hits. That just confirms it! Continue reading
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The Phoenix Foundation – Buffalo
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5JfdfVE7o&feature=player_embedded[/tube] Rather like this track “Buffalo” by The Phoenix Foundation (of the New Zealand incidentally) – made me think of summer. 🙂 Continue reading
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Skyline
Strange lights descend onto LA drawing people outside like moths to a flame. Hypnotised by the lights they are sucked up by brain harvesting aliens. The Critics hated this film but I really enjoyed it. A lot like Cloverfield, Its cheesy, pretty poor acting but the aliens are cool and it all cracks along at… Continue reading
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Whoop whoop
K has just booked a couple of tickets to see Elbow doing a pre tour warm up gig at the Junction in Cambridge. Cheered me right up after my extremely soggy ride to work this morning! Continue reading
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Year of Sundays
Balloon Buddy Rather than redo a Year of Days. I though we could do a year of Sundays here on the blogs. What do you think Liz? N.B This is all that’s left of Emma’s birthday balloon! Continue reading
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Australian Floods
I have to admire the aussies laid back attitude. Despite the devastating effects of the floods in Brisbane, I heard one chap interviewed who, despite his house being completely flooded, said “There’s not much I can do about it at the moment but I’ve got plenty of beer!” I think it would be whole different… Continue reading
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99 Problems
I’m a bit of a closet Jay Z fan and I love “99 problems” its a fantastic track. Some bloke called Hugo has now done a Country & Western version and its really good. Very dodgy video, but great track. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onDh4P1cE2E[/tube] Continue reading
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Where will it end?
Tesco have launched an app which turns your phone into a barcode reader so you can add items to your online shopping order. Geeky but so clever!! Continue reading
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Night Sky
This is my first attempt at taking a shot of the night sky. It was a bit tricky as my neighbours had left their outside lights on but it hasn’t come out too bad. I haven’t got a clue what I’m looking at, does anyone know? Click on the image to get the full size. Continue reading
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Emma’s First day at Nursery
Emma had her first day at nursery today. She totally enjoyed it. The only time she was a bit grumpy was when it was time to come home! Off to Nursery with her tinkerbell lunchbox Continue reading
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Despicable Me
The story is of supervillain Gru who plans to use three orphan girls to help him steal the Shrink Ray. The girls however see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. The world’s greatest villain has just met his greatest challenge: three little girls named Margo, Edith and Agnes. We went… Continue reading
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Barrel Hunt
Today we went across to the Five Bells Pub in Colne Engaine for the annual Barrel Hunt. There are two routes, 1 1/2 miles for the under 12’s and a 3 1/2 mile route for everyone else. You can do the route any way you want and there was three barrels to find. Unfortunately we… Continue reading
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Happy Christmas!
Had a really nice day today. The Corkys and the all the oldies came over for the day. As usual K did an amazing dinner, the girls had a lovely time. A really nice Christmas day. Cheers Guys!! Continue reading
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World Lens
[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2OfQdYrHRs&feature=player_embedded[/tube] The Word Lens app instantaneously translates and replaces the text of whatever you are pointing your iphone camera at. Amazing! Continue reading
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Lovely Snowy Weekend
The girls all went to meet Santa at the Zoo on Saturday. Just as they arrived it started to snow, so made it really special.The grotto there is amazing, well worth a visit. Continue reading
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Stuck in Colchester
Had a night out in town last night with a few lads from work, K had come to collie to take Emma to Santa’s grotto at the zoo, we had planned to stay at Chris & Dereks for the night and all come back Sunday. Lucky that we did, because we had a lot of… Continue reading
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Unstoppable
Denzel Washington and Chris Pine play an engineer and a conductor who attempt to stop a runaway freight train which is carrying some hazardous toxic stuff. Directed in typical Tony Scott style this is meant to be edge of the seat stuff but – it isn’t. It plods along there’s a slightly tense couple of… Continue reading
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Leaving
Bored, with a well off husband. Suzanne trains to be a physiotherapist and her husband agrees to finance the fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne meets the man hired to do the refurbishment, the mutual attraction is sudden and intense. Suzanne falls in completely in love and decides to… Continue reading
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Weekend in London
We had a fantastic weekend in London. We headed in yesterday afternoon and went to “Winter Wonderland” in Hyde Park. I had heard it was big, but I was really impressed how big it actually was. There was loads of rides and a fantastic market but it was so busy. Once you got out of… Continue reading
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Kara Tointon on Strictly Come Dancing
I do love a bit of strictly and Kara Tointon got my vote last night. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3DVX0Huah8[/tube] I also really enjoyed incredibly hot Natalie Lowe who is dancing with some bloke Scott Maslen. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VrfHsmD8Ak[/tube] Continue reading
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