Holiday Inn Hotel Milton Keynes

<br><br><br>"Whatever can go wrong at the most inopportune moment, will" Sod's law<br><br>All I had to do today was to get the laptop ready for travel: clear out old files to make space for photos, transfer my planning files with all the hotel, travel and other necessary detail; and check in.<br><br>First the laptop email chose ...

"We're leavinghome" Beatles<br><br>Leaving thehouse for three months over winter can be a bit of a worry, and besides, thehouse insurers don&#8217;t like it.<br><br>Fortuitously,Barbara and Steve will be house sitting. Good friend Barbara and new partnerSteve have both recently left failed marriages and are looking to start a newlife together. So the arrangement suitsthem, suits us, and suit our insurers. <br><br>But even so,much has to be done to get the house ...

Willie and Kath came up for a few day's at half term in October, to catch up with Sid and Debbie and to get a wee rest if that is possible with two small children!! They went on a pumkin hunt at Blenheim but did not tdo the hunt , instead they had a fish and chip picnic in the park, and ran around with the kids all afternoon. Here are a few pic's mailnly of Maisie and Ruan.

... will be flying. Check out www.seatguru.com a website which lists all the plane configurations for all the airlines and shows the good, the bad and the indifferent seats. Did you know for example that seat pitch on most planes is an inch shorter in the rear seats?<br><br>The best time to claim your seat is at the time of purchase. It&#8217;s amazing how booking agents lose interest in these matters once the dosh is ...

"Got no bags and baggage to slow me down ......" Cliff Richard - Travellin' light.<br><br>No that's not strictly true. I may be travelling light, but Vanda's has already emptied her three wardrobes, and yesterday the kitchen sink went missing. Think that may also be in the case!<br><br>Take a lot or take a little. that has been the debate over the last several weeks.<br><br>Vanda's view is she will need clothes for every conceivable occasion, and washing and ironing ...

... t pull their finger out and we can&#8217;t get in to decorate and make the necessary representations to the council for approval for sub-letting? Do we try to do it from abroad paying someone else to decorate or do we delay departure and potentially mess up our convoy with friends and volunteering plans? We haven&#8217;t decided yet what we should do and we are just hoping that it will all play out in time ...

<br>Hey up,<br><br>Just getting round to setting my blog up and getting to grips with how all this social networking works as I'm one of the last people in the world to get involved! So nothing juicy yet, but come back soon as the adventure will start on Sept 5th 09. <br><br>Thanks, Ed

Very last minute (I only booked the flight last Saturday) I have decided to travel back out to Sri Lanka on Thursday evening As I have left a set of clothes at MEF my packing is consisting of slightly more unusual items, so far I have packed 4 pop up tents in my rucksack (for post op animals to recover in) buster collars (lampshades) various medicines and last night I was weighing large ...

... with all the ghosts ever... ..as on this day i met ernie hudson. there are few words that discribe such a day. one of them is 'great' another is 'awesome'. so i met him, in a shopping centre (a very large shopping centre with sciddy floors and with old shoes on it became an adeventure in itself) i parted with 15 woolongs and walked forward towards the man himself. he looked the same age as he did in both ...

So, England eh! About 4/5 weeks till Im off outta here - v.unprepared. Got me rucksack which looks like it could hold a small child/Tommy, got a Thai visa (£30 for a stamp what?!), pen knife, my first lot of jabs (cant wait for the next lot errrrrrrrr, best take my cheque book next time) - Still contemplating whether or not to get the rabies and japanese enchiladas (very tasty i hear) jabs - errrr £200???? Think i might save it for the ipod n stay closeby to hospitals at all times. Plus ...