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Open Farm Sunday

Every year, some local farmers open up their farms for Open Farm Sunday. It’s an opportunity for non-farming types to see where their food and milk comes from. A chance to commune with cows, tractors and manure. We’ve never been … Continue reading

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Breakfast of Kings

I had a text from Mirinda waiting for me when I woke up this morning. It read: ‘We are in Cafe Fauno!’ She’s in Sorrento with her Dad for about ten days and clearly thought it only right to let … Continue reading

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Is it me?

We had a Nicktor Night tonight only it wasn’t really a Nicktor Night because Nicktor didn’t stay. This is a shame because he doesn’t get to relax properly seeing as he has to watch what he drinks and then drive … Continue reading

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Art and first aid

Thanks to Twitter (which is where I get most of my information from these days) I was made aware of the fact that, firstly there is a museum of the Order of St John in London for me to visit … Continue reading

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Long boats and Weasels

The last time I went to the British Museum with the Weasels, it was to see the Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition. At the time, I complained that it was too crowded, making it very difficult to appreciate the whole thing. … Continue reading

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The jaws that bite, the claws that catch

“An Irishman, a Scotsman and an Australian, walk into a football ground…” Said Mark as we walked through the Rec turnstile.“There’s a joke in there somewhere,” Replied Stewart. We’d just walked down from the Queen Vic having had dinner and … Continue reading

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Drinking weasels

Having bypassed the Blackfriars pub (after our previous, awful discovery that it had turned into a gastro-pub) we ended up at the George at the end of Fleet Street. Imagine our joy and delight when we found a real ale … Continue reading

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Jet lag and the Globe

Today was the first Globe outing for the Weasels this year and The Tempest was the play. I set off from Aldershot (Mirinda kindly drove me on her way to pick up the poodles from the kennel) because of engineering … Continue reading

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We’ll discuss that later

Today was a bit full. Generally, Mirinda doesn’t really like doing more than one thing a day when we’re on holiday but, every now and then, she’ll decide to forget that and book two things on the same day. That’s … Continue reading

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Avoiding the wet

Following last week’s completely wasted journey to the Talking Newspaper studio, I was obviously a bit more careful this week. I was down to present the Haslemere edition (again). I should say that I simply write my dates on the … Continue reading

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