The quiet before New Year.

So, Sal & I decided to finally brave the post-Christmas sales in Birmingham yesterday.
Decided to catch the train in, rather than take the car and face the usual pains in finding somewhere to park – then have to re-mortgage the house to pay for it afterwards. Well, it’s not that bad – but y’know… Quite [...]

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Moving on and pausing for breath.

Well, Christmas day and Boxing day have come and gone. Presents have been wrapped and unwrapped. Turkey has been prepared, stuffed, cooked and eaten. It’s been a lot of traveling recently. Firstly, it was up to Sal’s family – a nice journey up a rain soaked, salt infused M1, which resulted in a later than [...]

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Slight change of plan and unexpected moments.

So, we’re off to Yeovil for Christmas now. Mum’s in a bad way, so the visit of the parents to the new house has had to be postponed and we’re taking Christmas to them instead! Nice. Now… how to transport an entire fridge and freezers worth of food 3 hours down the M5 without significant [...]

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It’s been a while.

It certainly has. It’s been at least 10 months since ly last post. Right, well this time I’m determined. I shall be blogging regularly again. I’m slightly tempted to give a brief history of what I’ve been up to for the last 10 months. The more I try to remember, the more I can’t… so [...]

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