Monthly Archives: December 2003

A Very Merry Christmas To You All. Yesterday evening it was all down to George and Susan’s. Susan has the misfortune to have been been born on Christmas Day, so we had to have a little party to celebrate. That of course had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that George still had a … Continue reading »

George and I spent today hanging stage curtains and snowdrops, in the school hall. Yep, after lots of rehearsal and preparation, the Sunny Lane School Christmas show has come round again. This year the theme was Santa’s Toys, with a real Father Christmas and Mrs Christmas. We had performances, as Teddy Bears, by The Cr

The L.A. Hotel is just down the road from us here and Joan, through some contact, had been invited to put together, a table of 10 people, for a dinner and entertainment, at a cost of only

Well as predicted, the election result was a neat 50/50 draw. So now we will have to wait to see if there is any form of coalition drawn up, if not then in 3 months we will start again. So now we just sit and wait to see what happens. Well the fire is in … Continue reading »

Well, first indications of the election results are an equal split between the current party in power and the opposition, so we will have to now await the official declaration, which will probably be made on Tuesday and see what the next move is. There is already talk of another election taking place in 3 … Continue reading »

At lunch time today a crowd of around 10 of us went to Henson’s restaurant for an English roast Sunday lunch. There are one or two restaurants who do this traditional English thing in the winter time and with a crowd it is always good fun and an excuse, if ever one was needed, to … Continue reading »

Richard came back from the UK last night and thankfully the plane was on time, as we had agreed to pick him up. This afternoon he came round with the bits and pieces we had asked him to get for us, plus a few extras, like a nice piece of stilton for me and a … Continue reading »

We have had some sort of on/off weather over the last few days and that was a problem for starting work on our new fire installation. We have an outside water tower and as it was necessary to replace the water tank and put up a new expansion tank for the back boiler, nobody relished … Continue reading »

Joan and I have had an uneventful few days, Joan has been going off to school in the mornings and I have been talking to a few companies about having links on the website to get you more information. But we have had a couple of really delicious dinner invitations over the last few days. … Continue reading »

December has started with a bang. A bang of thunder, that is. Remember those sunny photos from last weekend, well take a look at this, also at this. The weather has really changed over the last few days, it started to cool off a little Monday and Tuesday, yesterday Joan and I both got soaked … Continue reading »