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A quick entry fro my phone - in London and relaxing in the Premier Inn by the London Eye. No hassles getting here and looking forward to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition tomorrow. On to the sh...

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There is always something to bring a little tension into your life. I like paying my credit card bill every month at the bank and just wait for the bill to come and use the paying in slip with a ...

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SW… is always in charge of the packing - I think, for all her moans about my lack of cooperation she likes having the power to suggest what I should take. TBH in the main I could not care very mu...

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Perhaps I should clarify some of my comments about our cruise. I never show too much enthusiasm - that way you rarely get too disappointed. In fact I am now looking forward to going since everyth...

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The main way that cruise companies make their money is on the shore excursions when you reach a port. They are heavily publicised beforehand - and you are encouraged to book before departure in c...

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Things are getting serious here. In a week we travel to London to stay for a couple of days, to see the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, maybe more exhibitions, the main aim being to be ready to ...

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I don’t seem to get the time to write an entry these days - maybe I am not really doing much of interest - just working towards getting things together for the cruise in a week or so. Actually SW...

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1.40 am on Wednesday morning and the phone rang! No one rings at that time of night unless it is a wrong number ( Can we get a taxi?) or there is an emergency. Eventually we woke up sufficiently ...

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First of all, congratulations to the English ladies soccer team that beat Germany in the third place play off in the World Cup in Edmonton - great work to beat the old enemy for the first time - ...

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I woke up this morning to hear the news that the English women’s soccer team had lost to the Japanese through an own goal just before the end of normal time - a real bummer - and really a fluke -...

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At last some heat - enough to have to have the windows open - and enjoy the warm wind. Thank goodness we do not live in London - just imagine being on the Tube in this heat (or higher). Anyway, t...

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Met a couple yesterday I had not seen for a little while - they had both been in the choir, and in fact met there - and embarked on second marriages - so you ask the question - ‘And how are you?’...

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One thing you find out in life is that however much you plan ahead there is always something likely to turn up which changes things. So this week we never expected younger son and family to come ...

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Every morning, when we wake up, we turn on the radio to pick up Radio 4 - it might be 4.30 am - time for a pee - and then hopefully the drone of the World Service send you back to sleep. The Toda...

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You know that if one of your sons rings you at 8 am in the morning then there is something wrong. He had had a text to say that the wife of one of his best friends had died of cancer in her earl...

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I have opened my Father’s Day cards - as always one son always sends one with an ironic message - and the other just ignores the day - I appreciate both approaches. I also have one which I bought...

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This is a busy week for commemorations. As every child knew in my day (less so now I feel) Magna Carta was sealed in 1215 - and the Battle of Waterloo was in 1815. Both In June - and both celebra...

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Things happened at home while we were away - not least the garden became more fecund - and today, since it was nice, it was time to mow the lawn - but these were the revelation - the yucca, which...

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Was this only last Sunday? Here is a pic of the First Communion procession when it stopped at one of the shrines set up in a shop doorway - the young boys, in sailor suits, and the girls in vir...

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A quick entry to say we are back. The airlines really had no trouble with the air controller strikes in Spain because under law the controllers have to provide 70% of normal service. So we were o...

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Weather Thursday - not the same - rain this morning - thunder rolling round us at the moment. Hoping for sun tomorrow before we get our flight. I shall miss putting shorts and sandals on every d...

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Weather - the same - rather more humid and major storms in the mountains in the north of Spain. Luckily here just a little bit of cloud - but hot sun. Winding down now to coming home - still jobs...

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Here’s a couple of pictures I did at the weekend And what else did we do? Watched Barcelona beat (hammer) Juventus in the Champion’s League Final - superb stuff much liked by Spanish tv Then yes...

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Weather - the same. First thing I heard on UK news this morning D Cameron wanting to stamp out the ‘cancer of corruption’ in the world following the FIFA debacle. Dave is going for the big issue...

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Weather - the same - and in fact too hot to eat outside last night because of the sun. Not complaining - we had my pepper sauce with pasta shakedown with a 2009 Spanish red. Excellent. We get th...

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