Heckfield Place
Travel Blogs from Heckfield
Northdown Orchard: This one's for Janet B.
... Nice to have a proper conversation with her, rather than our usual brief musings on Scrabble!
But to end where I began. I've now completed 6 months of my proposed 12 month stint. I was vaguely musing about doing a "6 monthly review", as I used to have to do for my staff as part of the dreaded PDR (Personal Development and Review) cycle favoured by Birmingham City Council. But Janet's death and the contact with colleagues helped me to realise several things without having to ...
Oh yeah- School
... back to our residence in Surbiton. We made dinner and met later at a pub where the college had roped off an area for a "meet a mate" night. (mate is just a friend). There were about 20 chairs and 140 students so you can imagine it was sort of crowded. We hung out there for a while and met a lot of different people before heading home. We planned out our weekend too since it's my only free weekend to really see London. ...
Quicken 2007 bites the dust
... turning up the boiler to heat the radiators to heat the cavernous house that I love renting. It should have been a quick little "open and change the amount" fix to my scheduled transactions on Quicken. I open them once or twice a month to enter the regular monthly expenditures such as rent, utilities, mortgage, insurance, etc. This morning it was not to be.
First try, open scheduled transactions, nothing happens. After ...
Day 1- Off to Heathrow
... your meat, which included Kudu and ostrich, and then it is cooked in front of you. A massive range of food and accompaniments....plus starters and puddings........far too much food but wonderful. All washed down with some good red wine, local of course, and a fair sprinkling of African music with a live band and lots of drumming.
And so to bed......it's only 9pm......but we are whacked, and full....and here endeth the first day.
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We´re Back!! (since a while back admittedly)
People!!
We have returned, unharmed and with lots more possessions than what we left with!
It has been my job to write this last entry but I have of course forgotten about it (sorry Oli). He did his job of uploading some more photos, which if I remember correctly involve all the images from Nicaragua to Mexico. So do have a look at them if you have the time, some of them are awesome.
So the last entry.. It is quite sad really. In ...
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Restaurant
- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Fitness/Health center