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Walking Wardrobe
... will have to carry?
2 hours I've been working on it now and I've come to a pause because I can't decide whether to take 2 or 3 pairs of walking socks!!! Is this a sign of the tough decisions I have ahead of me? If so bring it on!!!
I did it, slightly heavier than anticipated, weighing in at 19kg but ho hum I'll have huge muscles by the ...
Waxwings and Grebes
To Northampton for Julie's dad’s birthday. We stayed at the Travelodge on Upton Way again and as luck would have it a flock of Waxwings had been reported from very near the hotel for a couple of days before we got there. I’ll say a bit more about Waxwings in a later blog (I’m a few weeks behind when writing this up) but given that we didn’t have far to go we thought we had time to go and look for them before meeting up with the birthday boy in ...
Damp and dippy
... I went to look for in conditions thatwere, quite frankly, grim and then met Julie off the train, after which we went for dinner in Sorrentino’s in Northampton, a rather good Italian restaurant that we have visited several times, before heading off for an early ...
Oh typhoid vaccination is essential !
... going to follow. ''Five months? How do you cope? Where do you stay? How do you manage being two women on your own? Very often they add, 'Oh you are so brave.' 'No, no,' we say. 'Bravery is attempting to do the shopping on Christmas Eve in one of our major supermarkets.'
Anyway, on with the consultation and she looks at our booklets and we brace ourselves for the news.
'Well Sue you seem not to need much this time - just a booster for ...
Northampton, Northamptonshire
... around the market. Had lunch at The Old Bank Pub. Northampton was the shoe capital of England, famous for its shoe manufacture for several hundred years. We went to the shoe museum (much to Tony's dismay!) which is 4 storeys high and home to the largest collection of shoes in the world. See the photo below of the shoe art with all the sneakers and their laces in the air. Later, we went out to dinner at the Harvester in Grange ...