The Forbury Hotel Reading
26 The Forbury Reading, Berkshire, England, RG1 3EJ, United Kingdom
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A short summer in the UK
... I did share). It was great to see my family and not have to tell them how my trip was. All I got from my dad was 'I don't like the look of the food you eat!', course what you don't know is that he reads my blog while eating his lunch at work. I might consider a food warning for him, especially when I hit China! I was unable to see my grandad on the first visit but spent a few ...
The 'oh god i havent written in a month' one 1/2
... exciting day at work, so gets a special mention! Youth club was almost perfect that evening, all the kids were impeccably behaved, we had a BBQ and a table tennis tournament! The BBQ was delicious, and luckily the kids were only about 8 years old, and I was able to mercilessly destroy them all at table tennis!
Friday was my big day! Finally, the big break I was waiting for! My Catwalk/fashion show debut at the Refugee Council! We ...
Toddlers, sunshine and lots more hobbling
... After a Morrisons haul we headed to Syon Park to relax for a bit, armed with 39p bottles of Grolsch - immense. Trixie and I quickly headed home to chill out in Richmond.
Sunday brought more park fun, this time in the lovely Lampton Park in Hounslow and then a visitation by Big Julie and Jane (mum and dad). We went, with Trixie, to Richmond Park, which was stunning, full of lazy deer in the shaded areas and full of Brits exposing excessive amounts of flesh - even in Richmond! ...
Day 6 We went to Kew, not the near one either.
... hour passed before Andrew and I worked our way down Mortlake road, over the Kew Bridge on then on the right track for bussing back to our starting point.
After parting ways with Andrew it was a short, sure walk in the direction of my trusty abode. Delighted to find it where I left it. It was heaven to put the feet up and reminisce about the exotic and diverse species of flowers and trees we saw today.
And try to calculate how many steps I did ...
Snow & delays
We arrived at our friends house in reading as we were doing the first leg of our journey with Andrew & Jane to sunny Barbados for a month.
We were all ready for the off when the news arrived that heavy snow was going to blanket the UK & boy did that happen.....some of the worst snow in 30 years right across the country.....we were holding our breathe on departure day, we went to our hotel at Gatwick, had dinner & just at that point the snow started to ...
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