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Today we had a bit of a walk in the woods and a visit to Bicester Avenue where we had a look in the new Hobbycraft (very nice! will be spending more time in thereâ¦) and bought new weed for…
Continue readingIâve never been to Charlebury but Iâve heard that itâs a very nice place. Today, a little later than planned Em and I headed out determined to find a local alternative to Burnham Beeches to walk and lose ourselves in….
Continue readingLast week I wrote about the threat to Creation Theatre Company. I donât know why it took me so long but I have now paid up and become a friend, I may yet contribute more. It seems so that they…
Continue readingAfter a four-day weekend, today has been very much a struggle. No, it *is* very much of a struggle. I want to be at home with Emma, or rather, I want to be out somewhere, with Emma and enjoying a…
Continue readingFifty years ago today, Ralph Vaughan Williams died. Vaughan Williams is one of Emâs and mine favourite composers. For Emma, its Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, and for me itâs his Norfolk Rhapsody and Folk Song Suite. Following…
Continue readingThe end-of-summer bank holiday brings us another fine, sunny, warm day. Spurred on by something we saw last night on Britain From Above we decide to head down to Wantage and the Oxfordshire-Wiltshire border to visit the White Horse at…
Continue readingHappy Birthday Dad!! Dad, as it happens is in Wyoming at the moment, so actual birthday greetings will have to wait till he gets home. After figuring out just how the new camera works we make our way to Burnham…
Continue readingWith our move a month away (and one week of that taken out for our Snowdonia holiday) Em and I decided that we really ought to get a move on with doing some preliminary research for house-type purchases. To this…
Continue readingCreation’s future under threat By Chris Walker A SECOND summer of awful weather means the curtain could come down permanently on Oxfordshire’s largest theatre production company. The Creation Theatre Company, which specialises in outdoor shows, said this week that it…
Continue readingOh. My. God. I wasnât expecting that. Iâve just got home and opened my post, and from a plain white envelope out drops a cheque – for £14,283! The letter is from my uncle. He has finished finalising my Grandpaâs…
Continue readingWith the coming of the new series of BBC1âs Who Do You Think You Are?, Emma has been looking again into her family tree. Whilst she has been delving into Genes Reunited and the UK Census Online, finding all manner…
Continue readingBecause Creation Theatre are such an imaginative and great company to go and watch, and because we are not going to get to move for a month or more now, Emma and I decided to go and spend some more…
Continue readingAfter Saturdayâs aborted trip to see Animal Farm on Saturday, Iâve been feeling somewhat at a loss for not having seen all of it. So, as Emma and I had this afternoon off work anyway to go and sign contracts…
Continue readingThe cursed Smithâs of Jay Close, who I am sure are under the misguided idea that they have more power than they actually do because they are buying two houses in the chain have thrown a spanner in the works….
Continue readingFollowing yesterdayâs bleak, winter-like cold and rain, today was altogether brighter and sunnier in feel. Em and I headed down to the Lower Heyford boatyard to meet up with the Bicester Vets crewe for a birthday boating outing down the…
Continue readingThere comes a point in every summer when you weather watch. Last time I did this was for my outdoor concert. Today was for outdoor theatre. The day leading up to the evening was dismal; grey and wet, like all…
Continue reading~ According to the Chinese the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year is supposed to represent prosperity and wealth. ~ On the eighth day of the eighth month and the eighth year I finish revising Part…
Continue reading1. I had a touch of The GrumpsTM this morning. I’m really not sure why. I think its because I knew that I would be missing Emma. It was her day off today, and although she’d already worked more hours…
Continue readingThe process of copying all my data off my computer was a careful and methodical one. Intriguing to, as for a hard disk that was 60GB with available capacity of c.56GB and 16GB free, I ended up with 80GB of…
Continue readingI think I have just made a very audible whoop of joy, as like a phoenix, and after I had given up all hope of seeing my data again, a nice program called GetDataBack brought up a representation of the…
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