Pictures for Brice
French playgroup Oct 2012
Our playgroup has between 6 and 10 children each week and here they are at the craft activity .......
Holidays 2012
Holidays 2012
Finally home--and thanks to all of YOU!
Just an hour ago we arrived back home--collected from the airport by Brice--after two flying stages--13 hours and then just 6 hours--with a one and half hour stop at Singapore --very fast--a Qantas airbus 380. It was very dark and VERY cold when we got
Cliff
Last day and at last-- the Olympics!
The LAST surprise before we began the final countdown to Heathrow was to meet the Australian Ladies Olympic Hockey team on Shoreditch station.........they obviously were waiting for me and it was their surprise for me--how nice of them...... At Heathrow--long-time friend Cliff came to see us
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A swim, a journey past a bus doing press-ups-and the theatre
Michael provided the towels and we set off for London Fields public pool --one of the only 9 Olympic sized pools in Britain. It was rather crowded but Mary was pleased to be overtaking younger people in the slow lane. There are some Hackney street and market scenes --to provide
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Leaving York for London
IN two hours a packed Grand Central train took us, non-stop, from York to Kings Cross. All main line train seats now have a full power point available and WiFi. When you have to wait on a crowded platform--do you wonder where everyone is going? We joined the
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York Medieval Mystery Plays
The main reason we were in York was to see these Plays with Dorothy-the wife of Nan's cousin John Pullee, now deceased. The plays are only performed every few years, in the grounds of the ruins of St Mary's Abbey. The performance was stunning--a
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Added pics today--The incredible city of York
York is an incredible place--even before you see the Viking Centre, Museum or Dungeons. It is the once-and-for-all antidote to modern straight -line city planning and is an exotic synthesis of many very ancient buildings with ultra-modern boutique and speciality shops and eateries and market
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Leaving Lakes to York via Bolton Abbey
Taking a sad farewell from Tony and hilary we set out in fine weather for York--crossing the width of England through many attractive villages and great scenery, including Bolton Abbey. We passed a futuristic militarty site which houses the UK's leading military radar 'domes' --difficult
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Air rifles and a good hike in the hills
friend returned Tony's air rifle this morning--relic of his mis-spent youth--so we immediately had target practice with empty beer cans and some thinner targets. I have to say I got three in a row first off. Fortunately we had finished when a horserider went past
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Ambleside, a walk and a lesson in walking poles!
Today being initially wet, went to Ambleside-a charming Lake District village near Lake Windermere, where mary looked at jackets in shops and bedraggled holidaymakers sat eatring fish and chips. Later, when the sun emerged, we went for a walk at Holbech Ghyll. In the later afternoon we had an
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Meeting friends from Nottingham days and future plans
After visiting Crook church in the morning, where Tony gave the sermon on the 'bread of life' assisted by a Tesco loaf (!) we were joined by friends Sandy and Norman (proud owner of a 1976 Scimitar). They live near Preston and will visit Sydney in November and they
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Added pics---Leaving Aylesbury for the Lake District
http://www.bobhead.org/image.axd?picture=2012%2f8%2f09-P1060464.JPG Note--Cyprus--I have not received any pics from our friends--pleas forward and I will add to the blog. After one night with cousin Valerie at Aylesbury, we set out on the infamous M6 for Underbarrow, near