Today we had a lazy start before heading out into New Mills for a bit of shopping. Christmas dinner is going to be Mexican flavoured this year, just for something different. We purchased food and wine for tomorrow and then walked back to the house for a bit more relaxing. The guys over the valley […]
A service annoucement
We’re having Internet access issues at home and as I can’t update the blog at work we’re going to possibly have fewer updates than normal over the next few weeks. The open field we walked through to get down towards the stream that ran along the valley that the Sanctuary called home For now we’re […]
Because Catherine says so
It’s been quiet here on the Blogging front, possibly a combination of being busy, the onset of winter and the family visits recently. Lets go back through the last few weeks then shall we? This week I was at Leeds on Sunday night so I could be at the LS City Walk Office first thing […]
The Lord Mayor’s Show
Thursday night after work I went down to the Speight’s Ale House after work for a pint or two and Danny, a King Country lad who also works on the Helpdesk came along. We were later joined by Keryn and chatted our way through a few pints of Speight’s followed by a bottle of Oyster […]
The roundup
It’s been a busy week just gone. On Tuesday night I went to the Roundhouse in Camden and watched KT Tunstall in Concert. I bought my ticket months ago and Keryn had decided at the time she didn’t want to go so it was just me, my camera and all the other people. It was […]
We’re in Canada
Last Friday we flew from Gatwick to Toronto and we’re had busy days since. We’ve had dinner in the 360 Restaurant at the top of the CN Tower, attended Steve’s last night of freedom at the Gate 403 Club, walked around Toronto, had the privilege of being at Steve and Wendy’s wedding and then been […]
It’s working
The computer is working again so all is well (though we’ve ordered a new laptop now, for travelling as well as home). The power supply seems to be the faulty part, lucky I had a spare. I went with Ollie to a concert by Feist at Scala on Tuesday night. Sitting outside at a pub […]
Jim’s Feijoa
We had dinner with Jim and Emma last Thursday evening and afterwards we took Jim’s precious Feijoa home to plant-sit while he and Emma head off to France for the week. You can read more about the Feijoa on Wikipedia – I didn’t know that the plant is named after a Brazilian Botanist. Here is […]
A long weekend
A week ago was the last May bank holiday weekend and we had a busy time in London. On Saturday we went for a bit of a walk and visited the Tate Modern which was in the midst of a long weekend festival. We happened to time our arrival with a piece of performance art […]
Clean out
As previously mentioned Steve is now engaged to Wendy. This means Steve has to put an end to his bachelor lifestyle and tidy up at home so we volunteered to help Kathy and Sharon with a Sunday clean out of Steve’s boxed stuff. So Sunday just gone was spent at Steve’s place helping him sort […]
They rang last week
And the photo looks better in the paper. Ben called me and asked me a few questions which resulted in this article which appeared in the Brentwood Gazette this week: Eye for a Photo, The Brentwood Gazette. Just in case anyone thinks I’m obsessing it’s more that we haven’t really done a lot recently so […]
Sailing
We went sailing on the weekend just gone. We were invited by Keryn’s ex-boss Trish to join her, her husband Nigel and Kevin who works in the IS department at Landsecurities. Nigel and Trish are the sailing experts and Kevin had previous experience while Keryn and I had…looked at a sailing boat from various ferries […]