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From Edmund,
Aunti Cathy,
John,
Thomas,
and Kate!

Happy Birthday Claire

lv Gem & Clive xx

Claire says thank you all for your birthday wishes and the musical cards which we have just visited and enjoyed so much. Daddy says that the days of receiving lots of cards by post seems to have gone, but that's OK because we like the songs and the funny cards.

Today is my birthday and I am Seven years old. I share my birthday with Jimmy Hendrix, Bruce Lee and Sir Ralph Freeman who designed the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

I've had lots of lovely presents, best of all is "Hamee" who keeps our two goldfish company.

I love you all wherever you are.

Is not Rat is Hamster!

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Um it's a day early here but at your house it should be tomorrow soon so HAPPY BIRTHDAY GREETINGS
Grandad and Grandma and Uncle Steve toasted your very good health over a pint of Hooky at the Great Western Arms

near Aynho. lots of love from us all and to your brother as well.

Valvona&Crolla

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Hi Barbara.. Gemma Clive and I will be popping in here for a coffee and Italian egg&bacon banjo after Christmas as we'll be up for the Hogmanay Princes Street Bash!

Urban Legend or Photoshop Job?

Clive's Mum Elaine emailed me these fascinating pics (from her friend Dee in the states). The photos were supposedly taken in a zoo in Bangkok and the keepers have dressed the piglets like cubs to treat Mama Tiger's depression (caused by losing her own litter). Others say it's a cynical tourist attraction....or a clever photoshop trick? Cute pyjamas though.

gem xx

SORRY BARBARA

I am sorry I said you had a restaurant - perhaps one day. Best wishes from Margaret & Me

Message for Pete

I am sending you the provisional layout of our bungalow. As you will see, we could not face throwing away our lovely G-plan table, chairs and matching sideboard, so the room scheduled for a second bedroom has been re-allocated as a dining room, which we use for all eating (except TV teatime). This is the room which Cathy and Steve floored for us with the 'new' flooring of laminated 'wood' - beech effect, which looks and feels lovely. In time I will get round to adding a mantelpiece of the wood which I saved from your old pine bed ( I could not throw away such heaven sent wood) and I will provide a bookcase to hold all the books I was persuaded to bring along. I have been down to the DIY store and bought some suitable shelving. All I want is some good weather and the inclination to get off my butt. You will see from previous blogs that we are getting out and about. It is nice to have a reserve so that we can eat out when we want to. There is something to be said for downsizing our accommodation. We both hope you have all benefitted from the girls' TV rehearsals. Should be fun to see, if ITV is still going in February. Don't forget Claire's birthday on 27th. A birthday blog would suit fine.

BARBARA RICH HAS A RESTAURANT IN AULD REEKIE

I don't know the name of it, Perhaps Cathy or Julian may help. Glad you are not wasting away, like us.
Last night we went to a Catenian 'do' with our new found friends in the village, Nic and Anna Frazer. (about the same age as Steve and Cathy) Not Scottish, even with a Scottish sounding name - they come from Deeside. Nic works for Deutsche Poste in Croydon and Anna teaches cello at Stowe School, once a week. It was strange as, in their car (They kindly shauffered us to the do) we learned that Anna knows Claire, Dominic and Paul Morgan from student days (especially Dominic, as I gathered). Is he still single? she says? Anyway the 'do' was at the Moon and Sixpence, a very old pub in the village of Hanwell off the B4100 (shades of author Somerset Maughan; and George Sanders in the film of the same name.) The 'reception' was a surprise as we had steak and kidney pudding - not for years have we had such a gargantuan meal, preceded by a beautiful wild mushroom soup. Mum enjoyed her S&K and we both had a lovely evening - depite the rain. Next 'do' is 4th December - Christmas party in the Banbury House Hotel - black tie dinner and dance. Sunshine this morning. Steve - Lilian, next door is 70 today - what a kitten!! LOL M&D

hoots mon!

greetings from Bornnie Scortland! Ay ye sassenachs!
Have just been to local Italian! restaurant and feeling very fine after Scaloppina alla Milanese
(Pan fried Veal in breadcrumbs, served with Spaghetti in Napoli sauce and French Beans) followed by Affogato al Amaretto (Vanilla ice cream, drenched with Amaretto liquer, biscuits & granules, fresh cream and wafers excellent italian cuisine.)
Am staying in East London Street which about 100 yards from John Lewis' in the city centre and going Christmas shopping in the morning. Any requests? Tartan Shortbread anyone?
I'd forgotten about the chill factor up here so it feels a bit cooler than it is. It's no wonder the scots have invented internal central heating hic!
love to all
greetings to JR.. have got email taa!

hi, Steve, up there in bonny Edinburgh

We hope you enjoyed the short flight - reminds me of the time we flew from Orapa to Jo'burg - only took 50 minutes or so, in a small aircraft. Are you enjoying auld reekie (as the Eds call it). We had a very good friend Major Bill Haynes stationed in the Barracks who was in the Royal Educational Corps and was the Chief Man there for many years. His father-in-law was my Godfather Cyril Tutton G.C. His widow, Joan lives in Dunoon, I think. She is usually the first Christmas Card sender (Now that Dot is no longer with us) She must be in her late 80's now - if still alive. Keep working and enjoy Princes Street - supposedly the most beautiful street in Scotland.
I have just received yet another BT phone for my Hub - very tiny - I am charging it up now for 16 hours. See you soon. Love from Mum and Dad

How lovely is Youth

Thanks Nic and Jen for the two lovely photos of Claire and Demolition Dan - have we not got some beautiful grandchildren,- from Gemma and Will, the Welsh contingent, and those three Spanish ladies (Sorry Jan - Four). I seem to have lost the photos which you put up yesterday, Nic. Perhaps it was something to do with the nasty Hacker on Julian's website.
Ten minutes later - the photos have come back. Love from Mum and Dad

Folks, here (I hope) are some of the photos I've been trying to post

Gill & Barbara

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Who remembers these lovely babysitters from Haddenham days?
This is Gill Hawkins (as was) and Barbara Battista who is Julian's Godmother.
The photo arrived in the post with a 'welcome to your new home' card the other day.
We've been exchanging Christmas cards now for nearly 45 years! Don't they look well?

Singapore Update

Dear all, havn't posted a blog for yonks. We always read your bloggs and talk about your events, I really miss out on those authentic festivals Peter, we have all this stuff which is great too, but not the street Catherine Wheels.

So a bit of an update. The Botanic gardens have been upgraded and now there's a much better visitors centre, underground parking, a herbivarium or whatever they would call it for growing plants, a very authentic man made stream which runs through the gardens down to Holland Road which we followed to it's source (about 500 meters) only to discover tadpoles. We've been there twice recently, I took some ace pictures but I need to learn how to get them from the phone to the computer as I now have Jens old phone.

Claire has been kept busy off school, swimming lessons, art & craft etc. and Danial has been keeping us busy with periodic hospital visits. First transcient synovialitis, which was himknocking his knee triggering this lock jaw effect in his groin, so he spent the night in traction sometime in August, then last night he rolled off the sofa only to land on his collar bone and fracture that, so he's now a bit incapacitated.

With Claire's birthday coming up, she has been asking for a big fat smelly Guinea Pig, which we were not thrilled to have in our house. So after reading up on the pro's and con's of the short life of a Hamster, we have opted for a Saphire Dwarf Hamster, yet to be named. Here's a pic I think.

And Jen is fining, looking forward to here Ivinghoe payout, whatever that means!

pause

had a pause as j made a mock up of the kitchen to be and, tho walls by no means gobetied or plastered, or underfloor heating or tiles lain, or granite top cut...it suddenly felt right and we COOKED and ENTERTAINED for the first time in months! here is the host looking his wondrous best.

Just got back from cinema

and it was absolutely fantastic - go see. The best Bond ever...seriously.

night night

G x

Today I'm been mostly

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building a woodshed but heh look
..it's a Crimble Crib!
Where's the angels. I've got a 500watt star banging on...OY! Get those camels orf my lorn!

Message for Will - Genes re-united

Hi William John, You will have to blame your dad for this as he got me interested in seeing who my Arnell relatives are. I get very involved, so I am not bothering to extend my enquiries. My cousin's daughter sussed who I was and the fun goes out of it when you are talking to someone you have known from a baby. I have learned who my fifth cousin twice removed is and I don't want to be bovvard. Glad you are trying to find out who your relatives are - but why?? I don't think we have any b;ack sheep which would make it interesting - only ME. It was lovely to see you the other day - Grandma sends her love.

Weekly Update

Yes, we are both still alive, happier, now that we have a new floor to our dining room (with very many thanks to some very hard work by Cathy and Stephen). The floor is birch and I have today been able to bring in from the garage all our large books of Artists, Gardens, Cookery, Bobby Sngs Christian stamp books, and a variety of other large books which we were afraid may be getting damp. (in the event, they were all packed in strong cardboard boxes and were all in very good condition). I have stacked them on the top of the sideboard, above which I intend to fix some shelving. Other books have been stacked on the G plan Chest of drawers which took pride of place in our bedroom at 92. These, also I hope to re-site in some bookshelves. Yesterday was a visit to our doctors in Brackley, me to get a check on my chest troubles by means of a spyrometry test, (which I was very pleased with and Mum to discuss with the doctor her weight loss, which she was quite happy with, after which we popped in to the very large Co-Op supermarket, for some milk, bread and butter.
Underneath this large store is a similar large area, called the Brackley Antique Cellar, containing over 100 'antique' and collectors shops, each about the size of our bedroom. I was both fascinated and amazed that a small town, like Brackley could maintain such a super mass of old shops. Everything you could think of, most have 'collectors' items and some have fairly modern things. Next time we get a visitor, I hope to show them what a super place this is. Mum bought a small candy legged stool/ coffee table, which she is thrilled with. There is a 'modern' group of shops which sold kitchen equipment and another which sold mirrors. Some sold period or the older country cottage furniture. Mum hopes we can go again in the near future as she wants a very large bevel edged mirror to give extra light to the wall opposite the window in our lounge as this will give an impression of another window and an additional area of light. We then went into a little old-fashioned restaurant for lunch and we did not get home until nearly 6pm, having left home at 0840 to visit the Health Centre. Today we have been tidying up - me in my little office and mum doing mum things. Talk to you all again soon. I hope you and Clive enjoy your visit to see the new James Bond's Casino Royale, Gems. It has had some good reports.

Premium Bond

I've given in - the slick marketing, the repeated TV trailers annoucing the arrival of our new Bond (the rather lovely & buff Daniel Craig), the new Aston Martin DBS and a whole week of ITV showing the previous adventures (Live & Let Die was last night). Clive & I are booked in to see the new Bond film Casino Royale when it opens here on Thursday night.

I can't wait

what's with the false teeth?

Jpegs and DVD players

If we were to get a modern DVD player that can do slideshows of jpeg photographs from a CD, will this machine recognise my photos from iPhoto without the need to export them all first as jpegs? I say this because when I dumped a load of iPhotos onto CD and gave them to a friend who has a PC, the photos couldn't be read on their PC and I have a suspicion that modern DVD players might show similar idiosyncracies due to their Windows based application software. Who knows? Who has a DVD player that reads their iPhotos directly from a freshly burned CD?

working

here i am, having 'gobetied' myself by accident! Work goes on apace. We'll get there in the end!

Lovely African Videos

We hope you enjoyed your guests, Pete and Jan, We have, on accasions, looked at some of the Botswana footage on VHS and would like to change them to DVD, Even some of the still Photos are worth a re-look. This weekend we have both Cathy and Steve to help us do improvements to our litle house. Cathy is sleeping in our glass room and Steve is travelling from Oxford, Today we are going to lay a birch wood floor in our dining room. At least THEY are (with me trying to help where possible). Hava a good day. Y'all. We loved the Alphaz pictures!!

Old video footage...

Tonight Colin and Carol from next door are coming round for a bite to eat and as Colin is a Rhodesian I was spurred into reviewing some old video footage today of our trip to Chobe, Vic Falls, Hwange and Rhodes Grave in Matopos. Both Nic and I look frighteningly slim, the girls are both younger than Amy is today and Mum and Dad are much the same, only a little younger of course. How time flies. What a great piece of footage watching Dad going up in the glider and us all walking out over the salt pans of the Makgadikgadi. Have you still got the video, Dad? I'm going to try converting this one to DVD next time I get a minute.

Anywway, guests have just arrived, so I'm off now. Love to all!

Correfocs

The correfocs was a good evening. I went down to Alfas with Jessica and Bethany to get involved. It was the same group doing it that Jan and I saw two years ago and it was pretty impressive.

A band of drummers and pipe players preceeds the main party of flame throwing monks who set out to try to get everyone dancing by running at you like this...








Then they all start spraying catherine wheels about and you have to try to get underneath them, like this...














At various points, as you follow a route through the town, you get fireworks displays where the main objective it to take a shower of sparks













The guy who is dressed in jeans with a scarf on his head to the left on one of these pictures is actually the Mayor of Alfas!













Here we are getting involved (Jessica in red)













Occassionally they send the bulls in to chase and disperse the crowds!








and this is at the end when the monks do a finale on the stage amid a huge spread of roman candles...



Anyone want to come over for next year?

She's here

After driving alone for most of the day, Cathy eventually arrived here to a hero's welcome. We had been shopping in Banbury's lovely market and had bought lots of goodies, including some massive King Prawns and some lovely cod fillets which we soon disposed of by eating in our re-hashed dining room. We spent some time clearing the conservatory to enable us to put up the futon and make it look very cosy. I hope she sleeps well and warm, on this cold night Brrrrr. hope she is still with us in the morning!!!!!! Night all. Dad

New friends and old friends

The past couple of weeks have been amazing as, not only have we been contacted by old friends, but we have made some new ones. Last Sunday we had lunch wih Josie and Graham in their house in Eynsham, then midweek we had lovely photos and a welcome card from baby sitters of old. On Monday I went to the Banbury Catenians and met new friends there, especially Nick Frazer, who lives opposite the school in the village and who took me in his Ford MPV to Banbury to meet a host of other new friends - Catenians all. A very lovely evening with more food than I could manage and an inclusive wine dinner, which did not help my night cramps. Yesterday we tried out the journey from here to Bicester, in order to dump some stuff at the Council dump in Ardley and then had lunch in Bicester with a look round to see where the local Bicester Operatic Society were putting on Carousel in the Leisure Centre. Last night we went to the show, with old friends from the Chinnor Op. now renamed the Chinnor Musical Theatre, in Bicester. This was our third visit Kings Sutton - Bicester in the day and, of course we had to return for the fourth, after the show. To Pete and Jan - we met Chris Wright who was co-producing the show and played the part of Nettie Fowler. Her voice is as good and strong as ever. We also met Pam Lafferty, whose daughter Chloe is about to make her a grandma, Brenda Goffin, who has no intention of leaving Thame, despite now being a widow, Judy Thomson, who still runs a very busy piano school. (Ben is a school teacher and George drives a crane - I thought she said 'train') Adrien is still busy singing but he is worried over his weight gain, as he has over active thyroid troubles. Also we met the Daniels, Barbara and Brian who have put aside stage work and now sing in a choral Society in Aylesbury. They all send their love to you guys in Spain. Incidentialy, it only took us 30 minutes to get home last night on the B4100, Love from Dad and Mum. Incidentally, Pete we loved the B&W photos uf the Junior Welsh contingent.

Again, but not so incidentally, Cathy has just rung us to say she is on the way and will be here later. Lovely

What do teachers do on their holidays?

Pam's visit

Hi all. Sorry if we have been 'away' for a few days, but I always seem to miss what is happening after school breaks and I put my feet up for a day or two. It is half term at present and Alfas is having its fiestas rained out which is a real pity. Pam has also been here for a few days and the weather wasn't up to much for her either. She flew back this morning from Alicante and of course this afternoon the sun has come out.



Funny. While we were at the check in we ended up right behind Janine Duvitski and three other actors from the sit com the girls have been working in. We didn't embarass them or ourselves by blurting it out but we did chat to one of the backstage staff who worked quite closely with the girls when we saw her at another check-in.



Funny old world.

I wanna..

come too :-((

meet at Worcester

suits me. Except forM5 M42, M40 motorway section, this is the same route as I suggested

What about..

How about all meeting up at Worcester
for lunch or something?

ViaMichelin 3hrs 22mins

ANOTHER ROUTE FOR YOU

Take the road from Tregaron via Cwmystwyth, to either Rhayadar (A44) or Langurig (A470), follow A44 through Leominster and Bromyard, to Worcester, (a very nice road through 'black and white' villages,) then pick up the A422 towards Alcester, heading for Stratford-on-Avon (there is a small link road, the A46, between Alcester and Stratford) and pick up the A422 again from Stratford to Banbury, cross Junction 11 of the M40, and continue to follow A422 towards Brackley for a mile or two until you get to a five-junction roundabout - number four on the roundabout goes to Kings Sutton 4 miles and then you are here.
We used to follow that route as it is not a busy road = The worst bit is arriving at Worcester from Bromyard and trying to find the A422, as you have to go through the town streets until you find the road to ALCESTER.
Do not be afraid to ask if you think you may be in danger of getting lost in Worcester, as it is pretty straightforward. We are only at the end of a phone, also. From your loving Dad

Lovely to hear from you, Cath

Sorry you are feeling so wretched my darllng - of course it would be lovely to see you again. Why not try that route I sent you, via Ryadar and along the A44, Leominster and skirting Worcester, instead of the A40? Can't be any worse, surely.
I will look it up again. We have booked a visit to Bicester tmorrow to see CAROUSEL, produced by Chris Wright from Chinnor Ops, but other than that we are free until next week although we are visiting the dentist in Banbury on Thurs at 11am.which shouldn't take long. Keep your mobile open when you decide to come.

I'm here too,Dad!

Just at home doing Mum type things, it's been a busy week what with Halloween(it's always quite a big thing here as all the children are dressed up and are out around the village with their mums and you get told not to forget so an so as they will be expecting the children and not to forget the old people in the bungalows as they have bought sweet in),then a day in bed with another bout of illness, a chistening in the little Chapel on Saturday, and the village bonfire and fireworks last night the first time its been a dry night since we have been here!!!
What are you up to this week I thought I might come over and see you on my own and stay! I've been abit depressed about how far it is to you as I was hoping that the journey wouldn't be so long and that we would be able to pop over for a pub lunch with you quite regularly but it took me five and a quarter hours both ways the last week, or was it the week before, and I can't see how to make it quicker but perhaps I will be pleasantly surprised. Anyway I'll speak to you later as I have to go shopping now,we're out of milk butter and soap powder again!! Lots of love thinking of you all the time Cathy xxxxx

Home..

yes we're back, great fun.. on the way back saw the Pierro della Francesca frescos - ooh tongue twister - in Arrezo on our stopover, then had lunch with one of the jurors from Chimay - an American Opera singer that happened to live nearby, and then drove home leaving at 4pm passing Sienna, Florence, Pisa and Genoa at grande vitesse and arriving home at 11:30, we've put 4000kms on it already.... the great thing is the iPod plug in the glove box we took all our LP's in a thing the size of a mobile phone. More anon, got the water running in the kitchen yippeee!

JUST HOME FROM BRACKLEY

Travelling west from Brackley with a low sun in my eyes was a bit of a trial, but we are home now. The garage has to order a new middle box for my silencer before it can pass the MOT test.
I have had a thorough varbal going over by the Ashma nurse to get down all my symptons. More next week. I have also had a three-monthly hormonal implant and need not have another until Jan 007. Everyone else thinks I am fit. Wish I did! Where is everyone - are you due back today, Julian and did you enjoy your new toy Mini??

One thing I missed

In the post this morning was a very funny welcome to new home card from Gill, with photos of their recent meeting in London of both Gill and Barbara - our baby sitters when you were all small (incidentally, Barbara is Julian's God Mother). They are now, of course nearly 50 years older now, but look fantastic. I will try and get Steve to put the photos on the blog for you all to see. You will see why I chose them to baby sit for us, as they both worked in my office when I worked for the Bucks County Council in Aylebury. Gill lived in Pitstone and Barbara lived in Wendover, and time has been very kind to them, as you will see. We have just had the lady from next door (Lillian) in for cup of coffee and we are now off to see the doctor. Bye for now Love Dad and Mum

our latest

Went into Banbury as Mum wanted to have her hair cut and almost the first shop we saw was Achille, a ladies stylist hair dresser, who, if we were prepared to wait for 40 minutes could cut and set Mum's hair that morning. So, what is 40 minutes if it will please Mum, so while she waited in a comfy archair, drinking a cup of coffee, I went for a little stroll to see if there was any good restaurants pres d'ici. There was not, so I went back to Achille and read a paper, until Mum was ready. She looked fabulous with her new hair styling by Boss Lady Dominique. When I asked her what part of France she came from, She said Paree. I asked her if she knew Provence and she said only Aix was worth visiting. I asked her if she knew Meze and she said she had never heard of it. There is only the one place in France and that was Paree, she didn't like the countryside. We went searching for a place to eat and decided to head for home when we passed a big new pub with Buffaloes and a stagecoach on the roof - It was Buffalo Bill's so we pulled in and had a very hot meal on hot plates - scampi et ships for Mum and cod and ships pour moi. We could have had buffalo steaks and Indian pie, but we chose not to.
Sunday after Church we went to Eynsham as we had been invited to lunch with Mum's cousin Josie, husband Graham, daughter Nickie and husband, plus another cousin Chrissie and husband Richard. Very nice company in their lovely house (with hot tub in the rear garden, plus other sun houses and a beautiful large conservatory) Josie is the family archivist and is very family orientated. ( a sort of young Auntie Peg who knows all the family names, including children). Graham's mother of 86, a lively little lady who used to have a knickers and bra shop in Headington and usd to be a traveller for Marks and Spencer, like your friend, Julian from Mazan. After tea, we left for home and that only took 25 minutes. Took the Rover for MOT this morning and it was found to have a small hole in the centre exhaust box, so it was failed as I wanted the car to visit the Health Centre in Brackley where I have to have a chest exam and a prostate injection. I will take it back tomorrow for a Pass. LOL Dad

Tuscany.. visiting art, whoopee!

The Flying Carpet Fitter

What exciting lives we lead

What with our grandchildren rehearsing for an 'On the Box" and our eldest son doing a bit of roof jumping (Whose Roof) life is looking very dangerous.
No only, but also - our bed came yesterday. The man rang up to say he was on his way and half an hour later he had been - and gone. Never seen anyone handle such a large mattress so easily.
We started unpacking the yards and yards of plastic, and we soon were down to the last piece which contains the directions - typical! Two large halves of the base, which we tried unsucessfully to join, (so we have tied them together with string) and a beautiful headboard which we are afraid of touching and a lovely comfortable bed to sleep on- Quite a change from our two nights on the futon. We now have to dispose of the two old mattresses and the pine bed, which the Council will collect (for a fee). Thanks to Steve we have a lovely carpeted bedroom and a bed to be proud of. Our next magnum opus is to re-furnish our no 2 bedroom/dining room, so back to work boys. Hope you are enjoying the warm sunshine of Calabria, Ju. We hear that the mistral is blowing well in Provence. Trick or treat in Wales. Thank goodness, none here. Dad

Last day of shooting

Two weeks ago tomorrow the girls would have set foot on the set of the ITV sitcom 'Benidorm' for the first time, and today they did their last shoot. Having rubbed shoulders with some well known actors and actresses, met many very lovely back stage people and picked up considerable experience they return to the hum-drum world of classes and teachers tomorrow, out of bikinis and back in their school uniforms. Never the mind. Next week is half term and with sports on Friday afternoon they just have tonight to get over really...so we'll watch some behind the scenes footage of some film or other or some sitcom episode on the box and drown our post show blues in chocolate and ice cream.

Pam comes on Sunday (you're not planning a surprise sleep over are you folks?) and what with half term coinciding with the Alfas Fiestas (with it's now famous Corefocs!) we will soon be back into the swing of things in the run up to exams and Christmas.
These two parting photo on their last day of shooting show the girls rehearsing the hokey-kokey. Ah, those Chinnor Silver Band annual parties in the band room came in useful after all! Alas, Blogger won't let me upload it tonight so it will have to wait for another day.

Much love to all and sorry bros about your birthdays...I was thinking of you, honest.

OOOooHoo Look Mum!

It's me up here!

These days a ladder just won't do will it!
You need one of these gadgets even to clear a gutter!
tcho!
It's a Nifty 90 hydraulic lift like the one on my old Corgi Toys Simon Snorkel Fire Engine.
It's narrow enough when the legs are stowed to get through a normal doorway and
tows behind the car.

Lovely views as well from up here..















It should be a fine day tomorrow so I'll take some
pictures to show you all.
As for today I think I've had enough excitement.
Love to all

Just Harry left!

Monday night Clive & I went up to Oxford Brookes student union see the fantastic band 'The Divine Comedy', and Tuesday night we went to see our friends from HMV "The Young Knives' complete the last night of their UK tour at the Zodiac on Cowley Rd (where we saw Billy Cobham couple of weeks ago). Well there we were watching the band from the back when Clive nudged me, Rupert/Ron from Harry Potter walked in front of us and then stood next to him! Needless to say he was keeping low cover ashe left early before the band finished. After seeing Hermione last month in the High, that's mean we just need Harry!

Tonight we're off to see a free screening of a new film up in Oxford (it's all go round here).

Thanks, that's it!

Bought one on line from Cookware.co.uk., will put it up when it arrives. We've bought one of those tap swishers - works a treat