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Not really! Tuesday afternoon is Nordic walking afternoon - and yesterday we were on one of the beaches on the coast. We had had an e mail urging members to turn up because a local restaurant an...

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Mondays have become activity days. First of all the usual walk in the morning - there can sometimes be over 40 people on the walk which are led by those os us who have been trained - actually, tr...

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The Remembrance Service in London today will be ‘ringed with steel’ according to some papers - but when we were there anyone going into Whitehall had to go through major security anyway. It just ...

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This is an art installation at the Tower of London commemmorating the nearly 900,000 British and Empire soldiers who died in the First World War. It is made up of ceramic poppies which flow down ...

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The interviews went well (see previous entry) - one student was ill and could not make it which gave me more time to fill in the forms which will be used as feedback. They are all pretty well tr...

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I had every intention of writing on here every day - but failed miserably because we are now back in the swing of things having been away for a lot of October. On Mondays now I walk in the mornin...

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Well, the Halloween stock had gone from the shops (unless available cheap) - and there is more room to bring in the full Christmas stock. Already there is a sense of panic that they may sell out ...

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The next door kids came early - and good costumes - an hour later four teenage girls - and an hour after that - three teenage girls. And that was it last night. I guess if you do not live on the ...

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Thanks for the notes on my last entry - I looked at the info again, and the figure of 21 women who should be shagged to avoid prostate cancer was actually a minimum - since ‘over 20’ was the numb...

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We are back home - to peace and quiet after looking after grandchildren for a couple of days. It is great to see all the family - and to do things with them - but it is also nice to get back to t...

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Long time, no write. We are on the road seeing friends and family with only an I wi-fi - so I have chance to muse. We have spent three nights in a Premier Inn - a bargain chain of hotels which ...

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Well, we survived the remnants of Hurricane Gonzalo - not without wind and rain but not as bad as some places - and luckily the public transport was going fine so I was able to go to the city to ...

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When we left our place in Spain it was C28 degrees - F80 - and when we got back to the UK it was half that, showery, and it has not improved much this morning. Officially the temperature is above...

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The last few days here - and rain forecast for tomorrow - then fine again. Not all of Spain has been as lucky with flooding in Seville from the very heavy downpours. The rain is Spain cannot get ...

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Not us! The main news here is that a nurse who was treating an Ebola patient repatriated back to Spain, and who died, has herself contracted the virus. It looks like the protocols for treating ...

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Thank you for the birthday wishes. We had neighbours in for drinks in the afternoon - All ex-pats, some living here permanently, others like us over fora few weeks - in some cases ten - too long!...

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We were met by thunder and lightning - weather that had been going on all week. Today is perfect - blue sky, fresher, C28 and just right for a G & T. Time spent on sorting place out after the...

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The first day of October - and it is much like most of September - bright and dry - although we did have some rain in the night. However it seems autumn is just waiting to rush in at the end of t...

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We have had visitors for a couple of nights - my best friend from school, and my bestman - with his wife came to a wedding near here - and so we put them up,and took them around - and also went t...

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Here is PM David Cameron chatting to the former Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, at the UN. What do you chat about in these circumstances? Well DC told MB about phoning the Queen to tell he...

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Shorts yesterday - anorak today - and rain - it seems ages since we had any rain here, it looks like things have gone back to normal. And I was thinking about breasts. Actually I often think abou...

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This is almost a perfect day outside - bright sunshine, only a slight breeze, small clouds - and the promise that it will be like this all day. Another day for the shorts and t shirt - a longish ...

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So, I am still in the UK! Woke up at 5 am to listen to Radio 4 to find out that it was pretty much done and dusted that the Scottish people who voted had said No to independence by 55% to 45%. No...

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.... I might not be in the United Kingdom - or indeed not able to call myself British, since that suggests there is a Great Britain, which there will not be if Scotland secedes from the Union. Ju...

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There is a feeling that by next week the world will be a different place - the Scottish referendum on Thursday will change the lives of everyone who lives in the UK - the result could be on a kni...

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