Diary
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Camping Weekend
Had a great weekend camping, the campsite was excellent, very clean and it even had a family room with a bath. Emma had a lovely time exploring the tent and playing on the grass so the bath was put to good use! We had been a bit worried that she may wake up during the Continue reading
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Camping at last!!
The weather is actually looking quite good so at last we’re off camping this weekend. The campsite isn’t very far away but it’ll be an adventure. 🙂 Continue reading
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Bike ride
Had a great afternoon on Thursday, Emma’s bike seat arrived so we went for a ride from here to Greenstead Green where there’s a farm shop and rather nice cafe. We had a cup of tea and a slice of cake and then biked home. It was great, Emma really enjoyed it, she was waving Continue reading
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Emma’s off!
Its quite amazing how Emma has advanced over the last three weeks. She started crawling, recognising words such as head, brush your hair, book, belly (no surprise there!) and waving. And, she also started to walk with her little trolley! [flv:http://www.wherewasshaun.com/video/emmawalks.flv 400 300] [flv:http://www.wherewasshaun.com/video/emmawalking.flv 400 300] Continue reading
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Burn after Reading
Really looking forward to seeing this new film from the Coen Brothers. It looks dead funny, and guess what, the trailer only features “Grounds for divorce” by the mighty Elbow!! Continue reading
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Elbow
OK, I know I could be an Elbow bore but I feel I should inform you that you can watch an excellent gig they recently played at the Paradiso in Amsterdam on the fab Channel. This is great stuff, can’t wait to see them again in October!! Continue reading
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Back to College
First night back at college tonight after the summer break. It all seems so long ago. But, this is the third and final year so we’re nearly there. There is a lot of test and inspection this year so although its pretty intense I’m quite looking forward to it. Continue reading
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Grumpy Emma
Poor Emma has been proper grumpy over the last week. She’s teething, with a couple coming through but she has been really snotty and she’s also been quite chesty so we’re not sure if she’s got a cold as well…. The poor love has been waking up every night getting in a right pickle, so Continue reading
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Yet another wet one
Another wet weekend, not sure how much rain we had on Sunday but we had about 10mm on Saturday. Sunday, it just rained and rained so I did some diy and mooched. I so hope the weather improves for next weekend because we’ve booked our first camping trip with Emma. Its only for a night, Continue reading
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Corky and I went to see this this week and we both really enjoyed it. The story starts with young hellboy being told a story about an ancient battle between humans and creatures. An unstoppable clockwork army is built for Balor, the king of the elves which he uses to devastating effect. Feeling a bit Continue reading
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Windy Day at Mersea
Liane and I took the girls to Mersea for a picnic in the week, but it was so windy we couldn’t even sit on the beach . So we ended up at Cudmore Grove, and Livvy and Emma played football on the grass. Wheres my lunch? Corky took this piccy of the girls when we Continue reading
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Songza
Had a lot of fun searching for lots of cheesy music on Songza which is a search engine for music. Just key in the track you want and it searchs youtube & Seeqpod, open an account and you can have your own playlist – cool! Continue reading
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The Happening
This is a really odd film, its got some great ideas and some really tense scenes but I’m not sure exactly what Shyamalan was hoping to achieve. It seems that he wrote a few really good scenes but then thought…. how do I string this all together…. I know I’ll just include some really lame Continue reading
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At last, a barbie!!
The weather was actually really nice yesterday so we were able to deprive the spiders of their climbing frame and get the barbie out!! There was a supplement full of barbie recipes in the paper, so last night we had steak sandwiches with mayo, tomato pesto and watercress along with sweet potato chips with cajun Continue reading
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London at Night
I have to stop myself linking to everything that is posted on the Big Picture but the these photos of London at night are Amazing!!! Continue reading
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Off to the Beach
The girls went off to Frinton with Madeline and Louis today and had a lovely time paddling, playing with shoes, eating pebbles, knocking down sandcastles and burying Louis! If you look closely you can see that Louis has been given a sandy sex change! Shaking shoes! Continue reading
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Emma loves Shoes
Emma has a stange fascination with shoes and will play with them for ages. This video is 1 min 45 secs of Emma playing with shoes, enjoy!!! [flv:http://www.wherewasshaun.com/video/playingwithshoes.flv 400 300] Continue reading
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Went for a walk in the woods over the weekend and we came across this beehive. Its the biggest one I’ve ever seen, its about a meter high and although fascinating it was pretty scary!! Continue reading
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Emma Crawling
[flv:http://www.wherewasshaun.com/video/emmacrawls.flv 400 300] Emma just started crawling properly last week, and now she’s into everything!! Continue reading
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Somers Town
New film from Shane Meadows starring Thomas Turgoose who played Shaun in “This is England”. Unfortunately its only on limited release, it does annoy me how just one person from each cinema chain decides what films we want to see. You would have thought at the very least they would promote British films by showing Continue reading
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Body Of Lies
Great trailer for the new film from Ridley Scott, starring DiCaprio and Crowe. A CIA operative (DiCaprio) is sent to Jordan to find a high-ranking terrorist. While in Jordan, the operative forms an uneasy alliance with the head of Jordan’s covert operations (Crowe). Continue reading
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In Bruges
A pair of hit men are sent to Belgium after a job goes wrong where Ray has shot a young boy by mistake.Very much out of place, the two hit men fill their days living the lives of tourists. Ray, still haunted by the bloodshed in London, hates the place, while Ken, loves it. Ken Continue reading
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Olympic moments on YouTube
Great post on Kottke of Great Olympic moments. One of the best ones is of Derek Redmond who popped a hamstring in the semifinal of the 400 mtrs in the 1992 Olympics. Despite knowing he had lost the race he tried to carry on but hobbled to a halt, his father comes to his aid, Continue reading
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Ouch!
Nasty crashes on the BMX but Shanaze Reade still qualified and is only just behind Chausson. I’m sure she’ll get gold. Update: Despite getting the second fastest time Shanaze crashed on the final berm after clipping Chaussons rear wheel. 🙁 She’s only 19 though, I’m sure she’ll do well in 2012. Continue reading
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Garden Party
On Sunday my folks had a garden party. The weather was really nice (for a change) and a jolly time was had by all. It was really nice to see everyone, particularly my cousins who I don’t get to see very often. It hadn’t really struck me before, but out of all the cousins 9 Continue reading
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The Mist
Really enjoyed this tense thriller/horror film. In a small town in Maine a mysterious mist rolls in and with it comes some very scary creatures. A number of people barricade themselves in the food store and although they have to fight to stop the creatures getting in its more about the the people who want Continue reading
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Shit Weather
What a rubbish summer we’re having! We are going to my mums for a garden party today and its absolutely pouring!! 🙁 Continue reading
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Cycling Goldrush!!
I just can’t stop watching Wiggins winning the individual pursuit and Hoy and Edgar winning the Keirin. Continue reading
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First prize
Decided I should enter some stuff in our local show this year, as in 12 years we have lived here we have only been to it once! We had a really nice afternoon, Mum and Dad came over. There were some vintage cars on display(sorry you missed it Al) and a dog show, and I Continue reading