Happy birthday to me

06:37 beep beep – beep beep My phone wakes me. I’ve been here before. A text from my dear cousin: “Happy birthday. Sorry so early, but some of us start work before 10am!” Oh ha-di-ha. 09:50 John rings on the home line; I’ve turned the work phone over to the guys for the day. He [...]

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A Wicked evening

This was my lunch today. I’m feeling a bit under the weather and didn’t feel hungry until I was over-hungry, meaning that by the time I’d got this made and the cheese had melted, I was all jittery and needed some sugar inside me, stat! The surprise from Suzy yesterday turned out to be a [...]

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It’s a surprise

… meaning that I have no notion what’s planned. Suzy’s taking me out for an early birthday treat in a while. I need to look fancy and be at her house at about 4pm. Then we’ll be catching the train to … somewhere. To do … something. But I know we’ll be back after midnight, [...]

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John and Sam’s wedding

On Saturday 9th August Sam and John were married at Albury Park, Surrey. I have a very happy brother and a very happy sister-in-law (who are now in Hawaii, lucky dogs). Click the photo for the full set. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to Cologne.

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In no particular order

* I’m running away at the weekend. Ok, not quite true. I’m flying away. There, that sounds much better. Suzy and I are off to Germany for a couple of concerts from the Meister. I’m sort of hoping that my new lens won’t have arrived by then, so I won’t need to decide whether or [...]

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Mmm, lens love

Last Sunday we had our Summer Party, blogged live by me and Lauren before the immense quantities of food we’d made and then consumed finally overcame us and we no longer had the ability to type. I’d rented a very shiny, very heavy, very beeeyootiful lens to try out that day: a Nikon 70-200mm f2.8. [...]

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