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Weekend away on the Isle of Wight
We had a great weekend away on the Isle of Wight near Yarmouth from Friday to Monday. The whole Birger family got together to celebrate Mrs B’s birthday and everyone really enjoyed it. The whole weekend went off with a hitch – the cottage was absolutely brilliant fantastically equipped for the 11 of us, very…
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Nokia N86 – photos fault
My Nokia N86 is ok – I’ve had it a few months – since it was released in the Summer I think. However, it has developed an annoying fault in that the photos screen keeps coming up when you put the phone down – I assume that it thinks the shutter is open so the…
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Birds – woodpeckers, redwings and chaffinches
I’ve been testing out my new camera lens again – as you’ll see I haven’t quite got it right yet – the woodpecker is slightly (!) out of focus. There were lots of birds on the grass feasting on something the other day – even a family of Redwings – I counted at least 3…
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Walking Mylo
Cashman very kindly invited us over for Sunday lunch a couple of weeks ago – a beautiful peppered roast beef 🙂 Rebecca though was most interested in giving Mylo attention and taking him for a walk – she absolutely loves dogs and seeing Mylo was great. We went for a lovely walk round leachcroft woods…
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Hockey, Music and Work
As usual I’ve been flat out with work and life in general. I seem to be constantly busy and pretty much knackered from it all the time. Take this weekend for example actually probably not a great example as I was chilling with Rebecca and Jamie at home on Sunday, but Friday night I was…
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Music Updates
I haven’t posted for ages about what I’m listening to at the moment. Well to be honest, I’m getting pretty bored with music at the moment – all so rubbish – especially current music. However, I’m very conscious that that smacks of me getting old rather than the music getting worse – so i’m now…
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Redwing
I’ve just bought a new camera lens for my Canon so I can take more photos of wildlife when I’m at home. I’ve been working at home today and this is a bird eating in next door’s garden – not too bad given the distance. I’m not sure, but I think this is a redwing…
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Annie and Wardy leaving
Annie and Wardy are off today, the Watts family wishes them all the best for their new exciting journey to Canada, though of course we will miss them dreadfully. They’ve been tremendously good friends for the last 15 years or so, Annie is even Rebecca’s Godmother. We will be looking forward to some skiing in…
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Hockey and Eastbourne
The weekend was extremely busy non-stop. Friday night was spent doing my expenses and invoicing – incredibly early for me in the month… Saturday I played hockey for the 2’s against Abingdon 1s. We won 1-0 but it was hard work – I was left half and then right half (much better) but I was…
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Most Beautiful Countryside
We had Ash and Debs and co down last weekend for a quiet weekend. I managed to persuade Ash to pick up a hockey stick for the first time in a few years for a game with the 2’s – he wasn’t bad at all either considering. We then went down the club and then…
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