gerald_duck wasn't so much twisting my arm as buying the drinks to help us celebrate his first perfect square birthday in 11 years. As in previous years his brother Terry was also on hand (and staying in one of the palatial bedrooms at The Anchor) to help push the boat out, this time enlisting a small bottle of dessert wine after a tip-off from Linda (Terry's ( Read more... )

It was quite overwhelming to see so many LJ users in one place - a picnic on Jesus Green, Cambridge (last tree by Lower Park Street). bellanna and I took __Millie__, and we kept her at a distance from the main group to gauge how she would behave in the open park. The park was quite busy with people walking and cycling through, as well as family groups playing ( Read more... )

I cried at the end.

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A couple of old friends of mine from my Cubic days visited for the weekend. They arrived on Friday evening quite late after getting lost in and around Hemel Hempstead. Fortunately bellanna and I were cooking fajitas which don't take too much preparation before being served. I hadn't seen Claire and Julian (not LJ users yet, still!) for a couple of years ( Read more... )

It was good to see my old friend Alex from my Cubic days again this weekend. After she spent the day on Saturday wandering around Cambridge with her friend Steve, I collected them both and we all enjoyed bellanna's lasagne. They stayed over and on Sunday morning we stocked up on bacon, eggs, and home made spelt bread before heading over to the Milton Maize ( Read more... )

A big thanks to terryfish for organising a piss up in a brewery! He even drove bellanna and I there so we could drink merrily. Hurray! Thirteen more of his friends were there too, including cjwatson, sommitrealweird and mjg59 who's LJ handles I managed to discover.

Milton Brewery is hidden down a little business / industrial estate in the village of Milton on the northern edge of Cambridge. ( Read more... )

It was great having ealbhar visit for the weekend - we watched Les Visiteurs, played Scrabble, ate yummy veggie lasagne, gave her a tour of the house, garden and village, sat around chatting, sat around reading the Sunday papers - it was all good ( Read more... )

bellanna, ealbhar and I had a great time last night at The Wrestlers. We were celebrating Sandi's retirement from HM's Inspectorate of Taxes :-)

While I ate the delicious (if over onioned this time) chicken fried rice as usual, I tried half a pint of Charles Wells's Winter Cheer - a 5.5% ale/beer which the brewery describes as a “smooth winter warmer with a ( Read more... )