I've just done something I've never done before which is quite an achievement in these Covid days. I've lived in the centre of London and I've worked in the centre of London but I've never been to central London on holiday before. I needed to use some points from a holiday property company (for Brits it's like the Holiday Property Bond but not), ( Read more... )

Just nipping in to finish off the August meme. We're going to be busy for the rest of the week and I may not be around much so I thought I would do this now.

30. What’s the largest animal you’ve ever had as a pet?

Does a goldfish count? Otherwise no pets.

31. Do you have a garden or outside space?Yes. We have very little front garden, and what we ( Read more... )

I wonder if there is a word for people who are phobic about August? Not too much longer to go ( Read more... )

I had a nice surprise last Thursday when friend C sent me a message to say she would be in the area on Friday and could we meet up. It turned out that her husband had taken a party of teenagers away on a camping trip and several of them had tested positive for Covid. They were supposed to be going to Kent to babysit their daughter's children for ( Read more... )

Not commenting on the state of the world as it is just too depressing ( Read more... )

No-one could say that life in our road is uneventful. This morning our next door neighbour's son nearly got arrested for the second time over non-payment of fines for not having his parking permit. We are in a controlled parking zone so all residents have to pay to park here. M's argument is that as he only lives here 4 days a week he doesn't need ( Read more... )

We're not doing much at the moment apart from the usual attempts to control our clutter and our weeds. I have a completely irrational conviction that August is out to get me so tend to keep my head down and breathe a large sigh of relief when September comes around, so on with the meme.

Oops, didn't finish July.

31. Have you ever cried in school?
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After a slightly more active couple of weeks we haven't really done anything this week apart from declutter and garden. We decided it wasn't really necessary to have instruction manuals for devices we no longer possess or cables that connect something to something when we had no idea any longer what the something was so those have been cleared out ( Read more... )

After our trip to the seaside last week this week we met friends for our first meal out in an actual restaurant. They were the last people we ate out with before the pandemic struck so it seemed quite suitable that they would be the ones we met for our first trip to a restaurant. We had a lovely time, it was great to see them and the restaurant is ( Read more... )

We decided to take advantage of the fact that this past week was the last one where people were still legally required to wear masks on public transport and in enclosed spaces to actually go out. We were supposed to be visiting my cousin on Wednesday but as he had to call it off we thought we'd go to Brighton on the train. The train was fine, ( Read more... )