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CAR STORY – Part 3

The pressure builds.
Saturday – Drive in increasingly uncomfortable rental 20 miles West.
Too noisy, too expensive, ….. eeek! Very ugly!
Sunday – Drive in torture machine 20 miles East to look at a specific vehicle.
Quietish, reasonable price, nasty colour.
The time at home is spent on the computers researching price, reliability, running costs and comfort. Search radius increased [...]

CAR STORY – Part 2

Putting our petrol heads on.
I woke up the following morning – which was a great relief as I have been known to hum in my sleep. I telephoned the garage we use for repairs. My worst suspicions were confirmed. The cost to get the beast working again would be 3 or 4 times it’s worth [...]

CAR STORY – Part 1

In the beginning.
Lo, she is a terrible Goddess and I thoroughly enjoyed going to see Spamalot. We’d gone to the matinee so it was only just getting dark when we set off from the car park [£13 for less than 3 hours …. eeeeek] to return home.
We wended our weary way out of Brighton and [...]

SAMUEL PEPYS BLOG

I’ve been doing some intense and thorough research into one of the original bloggers and have turned up some interesting entries.
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My wife, after the absence of her terms for seven weeks gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the year she hath them again … this is becoming [...]

LET’S DO THE TIME WARP …. again

Theory
Time warps exist.
Evidence
Today is my 45th wedding anniversary. I know this as I’ve kept notes and double checked by counting the notches on my shins.
Lo, she is a terrible Goddess is nowhere near being 45 years old.
Conclusion
She is on a completely different plane time scale from me. (No. It’s just that you are a different [...]

SPAMALOT

Tomorrow Lo, she is a terrible Goddess and I are travelling many* miles to experience the deep and meaningful delights of Spamalot. Below is a brief extract I’ve filched from the official website in case you’ve never heard of it.
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Hello. I am an historian. I really am. I have a degree and everything. A lot [...]

NEW YEAR REVOLUTIONS

Stolen from Archie … who no doubt filched it from somebody else.
May 2012 follow on from 2011 and so on …
Lots of love and gingernuts from DP xxx
[Have I survived to see in the New Year? Find out here!]

TWITTERING TWIT

I think there are a couple of New Year resolutions I need to make.

A THANK YOU NOTE

Obviously ‘Santa’ has to remain secret so in the meantime why not pay this young lady a visit and relive the summer.
[Oh dear, my Adventures in Wonderland seem to be going from bad to worserererer!]

IT’S ALL GOING TO PLAN

Have you ever turned up a day early for a festive Christmas luncheon so all you get is a glare and a cup of tea and you have to then drive miles back home and one of you then has to sit on the phone for hours re-arranging the arrangements that had been made for [...]