It was great to have a long week-end and to have 3 days of mainly sunny weather (it could have been warmer and less windy but let's not be picky! LOL ( Read more... )

is almost over and went by so quickly.

I had to do some work (luckily from home) but we still managed to leave the house


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So we had a few inches of snow (up to 4"/10 cm according to the BBC which calls it "Severe weather in London") and following a well-rehearsed script chaos ensued: "Several Tube lines have been disrupted or suspended", "Heathrow Airport has said only half of Sunday's scheduled flights were likely to leave", etc. etc.

But at least snow is pretty!
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london1952  and bazanges  did a bit of 'retail therapy' in Penge today and came home with this


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Last week I re-launched our Resident's Association website after re-writing it using Wordpress. It was quite a bit of work but the feedback from some of the neighbours has been positive.

The estate where we live was built in 1866-1868 and it is named after the then Princess of Wales, Alexandra (also Princess of Denmark, and later Queen of the United ( Read more... )

Some of you may remember the mysterious apparition of a heavy Toby Jug/gnome of extraordinary ugliness/creepiness on our drive a little over a week ago.


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As we were walking on Penge High Street, I spotted something wrong in the window of the cake shop (which opened a few months ago and always seems rather busy, despite its cakes being on the garish and, not in a good way, over-the-top side).

Lynne took the picture. Note the hearts on top of the cakes.


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As expected, the inch and half of snow we had on Tuesday night turned to ice [note: Adrian says it's two or more; what's with men and inches?]
As expected, the trains which ran on a reduced 2 trains an hour schedule got even worse today.

After 50 minutes of waiting on the freezing platform with no information whatsoever apart from recorded messages ( Read more... )

Earlier today I saw a zeppelin flying over central London. Luckily, it didn’t drop any bombs.

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