NYC: Grand Central Terminal

When we reached Grand Central Terminal the exertions and early start to the day were starting to catch up with me and a little voice inside my head was suggesting that we didn’t really need to do the audio tour. I’m so glad I didn’t listen to that little voice though and instead powered through. [...]

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Race for Life

On Sunday my friends and I will be walking the 5km Race for Life route in Tunbridge Wells. Race for Life raises money for Cancer Research UK and I’ll be walking in honour of the too many people affected directly and indirectly by cancer. If you would like to sponsor me, you can do so [...]

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NYC: First glimpses of Manhattan

We took a yellow cab to our hotel. The fixed rate of $45 plus tolls and tip between JFK and Manhattan is such a good idea. For lack of cabs when we were going to the theatre one night we hopped into a limousine – no, not one of those black stretch limos, I feel [...]

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Enjoying the rain

We have had some heavy rain showers in among the sunshine over the past few days, which has pleased me as it saves me having to lug about a heavy watering can to water my plants. There’s also nothing nicer than listening to the rain at night when you’re tucked up in bed. Pumpkins love [...]

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NYC: From LHR to JFK

We were very pleased with ourselves with our choice of flights – the outbound journey was early in the morning, but not horrifically so (though my parents, who very kindly drove us to the airport and then either went to work or to help John may question this) and got us to New York ready [...]

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Bath time

Mac computers have a very handy facility allowing you to label files and folders with one of seven different colours if you need to distinguish them somehow. With the last batch of photos I took of the twins I suddenly found this very handy. It’s all very well to know that Lily usually wears purple [...]

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