Tag Archives: Starbucks

Population explosion

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Gary

The kids were all off school this week in yet another half term break. Is there no end to them? It seems to me that they have more breaks than school. Maybe they should make school days the breaks since … Continue reading →

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La lettura è brutta

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Gary

Today we went to Reading. As far as I’m aware, I’ve never been before today. Mirinda thinks she may have attended a conference there once a while ago, though it clearly didn’t really impact on her to any great degree. … Continue reading →

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Making holes

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Gary

I just had a look at my post for one year ago, which I finished with “I hope it was worth it!” in connection with our Wednesday lunch trip to Harlow for Mirinda’s interview. It certainly was worth it. The … Continue reading →

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“Do you do much sewing then?”

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Gary

Nicktor came over last night. He still had the vestiges of a cold (‘man-flu’ Dawn calls it) but he soldiered through. We both agreed that whiskey could only help kill the germs that were besieging him. He certainly sounded a … Continue reading →

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Sticky muddy garden

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Gary

Our garden is a quagmire. I noticed that even Day-z has started picking out the tiny islands of grass to walk on, afraid she’ll vanish in the bog. Of course, Carmen just charges through it, making it worse. I have … Continue reading →

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Grim & Wet

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Gary

And so it rained all day. Nice. I went up to Farnham to do my shopping (slowly returning to some semblance of normality) and it rained on me. Not all bad, though. The barista at Starbucks remembered my order. When … Continue reading →

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Sweet Sydney cont…

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Gary

Having walked across the most wonderful bridge in the world, over the most wonderful harbour, I wandered down to the Rocks to re-acquaint myself with The Observer. When I left Baker’s, a few of us ended up having a few … Continue reading →

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Essential maintenance, indeed!

Posted on October 23, 2010 by Gary

You could have knocked me down with a feather. I leave home before Waitrose opens, specifically to go to Starbucks first (which opens half an hour earlier). This works out very well. I tend to chuckle at the hordes waiting … Continue reading →

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Linda’s big day

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Gary

Linda did very well today. It’s the first time she’s been to Portsmouth and there was no fuss, no phaffing about. All easy peasey, lemon squeezy. Linda is our SatNav. I was all for naming her after some obscure goddess … Continue reading →

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