Category Archives: Hope & Gratitude dinner

One of our annual celebration dinners. It used to be our Hope Dinner (we’d discuss our hopes for the future) but soon grew to also include those things that we are grateful for over the previous 12 months.

Hope and Gratitude 2019 (an excellent itinerary)

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Gary

Today, in the local Alberobello museum we learned about some priest who, along with other brigands of the region, raped and pillaged his way through the Land of the Trulli. It was a short piece on a long video so … Continue reading →

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Saxy Sophie

Posted on December 1, 2018 by Gary

Tonight we had our annual Hope and Gratitude Dinner where we declare hopes for the soon future while being grateful for things in the just past. It’s one of our traditional meals and, therefore, constitutes an NCD (National Carb Day … Continue reading →

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Hope & Gratitude 2017

Posted on October 28, 2017 by Gary

Tonight we celebrated our H&G with dinner at the Chesil in Winchester. It’s rapidly becoming our celebration restaurant. And while the food is excellent, there’s something quite special about eating in a building that’s been there for 600 years. It … Continue reading →

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Hope Dinner 2016

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Gary

The morning started nice and late. We ventured downstairs for a coffee at about 10am. After coffee we left our bags with the wonderful receptionist at the Casa dela Catedral and headed off, across the way, to the Cathedral. The … Continue reading →

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Hope 2015

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Gary

Tonight, given it was Halloween and we’d rather not be in for the awful little visitors that roam the street looking for rotten teeth, we decided to have our annual Hope and Gratitude dinner. Of course we have a lot … Continue reading →

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Hope, gratitude & happy birthday

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Gary

Tonight we went to Bel and the Dragon for our annual Hope Dinner. It was combined with my birthday. In the morning, Mirinda had guitar class while I waited in for a parcel that didn’t arrive. Once she’d returned home, … Continue reading →

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Hope Dinner 2013

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Gary

Well, it seems that my blog has now, mysteriously, become inaccessible. I was sure I didn’t say anything too controversial about the Chinese but, who knows…I can’t actually access it to find out. I am reduced to writing in Word … Continue reading →

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Hope Dinner 2012

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Gary

Paris is a very white city. We’ve never noticed it before but when you look down from the roof of the 59th floor of the Montparnasse Tower, you realise it is so. So many people queue for days in order … Continue reading →

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Hope Dinner 2011

Posted on October 8, 2011 by Gary

Whenever I pick up one of Mirinda’s Ruth Rendell paperbacks (and there’s many of them) and it’s an Inspector Wexford mystery, I always picture George Baker as the eponymous policeman. I think he was perfect for the role. Sadly, he … Continue reading →

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Hope Dinner 2010

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Gary

It was a bit of a lazy day today. We watched a few episodes of Ugly Betty, a Midsomer Murder which had us in fits and a lovely walk up to the castle in the late afternoon. The BBC (and … Continue reading →

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