Diary
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Elbow at Cambridge
Fantastic gig last night, the band really do seem to be having the time of their lives having won The Mercury Music award. Guy was really on form, chatting and joking with the crowd. It didn’t really feel like a performance just more like you had gone to hang out with them for a night.… Continue reading
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Holiday 🙂
Three weeks off – whoop whoop! Off to see Elbow in Cambridge tomorrow night. Got some house stuff to do this week with a visit to the zoo on Wednesday and then off to Scotland for a week on Friday and a week in Northumberland after that. Hope the weather improves!! Continue reading
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REC
This is a really good, full on, Spanish horror film. The central character is television reporter who is filming a documentary of the local fire crew. One night the crew are called to an apartment building because a woman is trapped in her apartment. They break in with the police and the woman becomes extremely… Continue reading
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Taken
Liam Neeson plays Bryan, an ex-government agent whose daughter is kidnapped in paris while he is talking to her on the phone. This is pretty much your standard action film. The plot is pretty unbelievable, giving the impression that dodgy Albanians are lurking around kidnapping American women. The actress playing the daughter over plays her… Continue reading
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Great Weekend
Charlie and Spud came for tea on Saturday and we had a right good night. Really enjoyed playing cards, its been ages since I last played. Sunday, the weather was gorgeous and there was no way we were going to do anything house related so we headed off on a cruise on the bikes stopping… Continue reading
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1996 McDonalds Hamburger
This lady is a nutrition consultant and her favourite prop that she uses when she’s teaching parents about healthy eating for children is this hamburger. She bought in 1996 and it still looks exactly the same… how scary is that? Continue reading
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Happy Go Lucky
Well what can I say… this isn’t total rubbish… Poppy, a Primary school teacher is irrepressibly upbeat and cheerful, she’s really likeable and she’s a fun character to watch but that’s all you do. Not much else happens really, she goes to work, has flamenco lessons, has fun with her friends and the only interesting… Continue reading
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London Freewheel
Had a fantastic day today, we took part in the London Freewheel, an event where a 12 km traffic free route is created from Buckingham Palace to Trafalgar Square, along Embankment and ending at Tower Hill. We cycled it twice and had a fabulous time, it was a real carnival atmosphere with people in fancy… Continue reading
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Livvy is 1!
Livvy is 1 next week. So, the Corkys had a birthday/ house warming party. It was a lovely afternoon in the garden with lots of yummy grub. We had a great time, the girls enjoyed playing in the garden and it was lovely to meet their families. Cheers guys!! Girls enjoying birthday tea. Emma trying… Continue reading
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Big Picture
I know, another link to the big picture but these are fantastic: The aftermath of Hurricane Ike Paralympic Games Continue reading
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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