It was weeks ago when I mentioned about my longest standing friend coming to stay, well it was a good weekend, great to catch up with each others news and we tried out a local Indian restaurant one evening, it was pretty good. The highlight had to be when we were pootling around the Friends Reunited website, she wanted to look up the bio of ( Read more... )

This evening I caught the end of an England v Rest of the World charity match for UNICEF, the match went to penalties and much to my surprise Damian Lewis stepped up to take one. Which means that I must have missed him playing earlier in the game and so missed the chance to watch him running around in shorts. Not fair ( Read more... )

All the talk of Dunkirk on the radio this morning had me in the mood for some history on my tv, so I decided to try catching up on an episode of WWII in HD colour that I had taped off the Discovery channel. The episode covered both Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge. In other episodes I've seen much of the footage before in other ( Read more... )

Life has been hectic, we're moving next week and I keep thinking of things I need to do. Up 'til now I have been fixated on the move itself, I haven't thought much beyond it, then today I suddenly decided I had to sort out a new frock for a wedding we are going to a week afterwards. So that was my morning gone. The frock was easy to find, it was ( Read more... )