The Hampshire Centrecourt Basingstoke

... br><br>We relax with a pre supper wine (or two), a passable curry, and then settle down to the film. The best for me of a fairly poor choice was, appropriately, one about Mandela&#8217;s time on Robben Island and his increasing friendship with his white prison warden. Vanda also can&#8217;t find one to enjoy, instead she get&#8217;s caught listening to the life history of the old dear sitting next to her. They are still at it at the end of my film, so I feign sleep.

<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 ...

... Bekey, Mum and Dad and then set off to Birmingham Moor Street for the first stage of my trip, train to Heathrow airport with Kate. Made a few last minute phone calls to Tina (little sis) and Tom and got to the platform with minutes to spare.<br><br>Kate provided a lovely picnic on the train and we spent a couple of hours making crazy plans, gossiping about work and chattering like kids. Between the 2 of us we managed to negotiate the London Tube system with all my bags ...

... other intriguing places. Apart from obviously Basingstoke which is just south west of London, where there are many beautiful parks and lakes to walk around, i have also been to Basildon, Southend, Essex and somewhere near Croydon camping on a baseball field. Southend was amazing as there is the worlds longest peir there and situated just before that is a relatively large fair ground. With the tide up, a full ...

Ok I'm down at Basingstoke in Hampshire. John and Louise Hutchison have made me welcome and today we took little Daniel to ride on Thomas the Tank Engine. Daniel is two and is as besotted by the book and tv character as huge numbers of small boys and lots of girls. In Hampshire a group of railway enthusiasts have maintained 20 miles or so of railway track which used to be part of a branch line. It was closed in the 60s along with all its ...

... to the other. As I have been asked this so many times I will explain : <br><br>Chinham town centre, I was pottering about and Huddy went into the travel agent and picked up the Kuoni diving brochure as usual, also picking up the Kuoni wedding brochure, along with all the other ones. That night we sat planning our holiday for the year and one thing let to another, we were no longer on a dive boat in Ph ...

This morning we checked out of the hotel before going shopping by Wenceslas Square again. It's amazing how many tree decorations you feel the need to buy when you've still got money left at the end of trip...getting them home in one piece is another story altogether though. In the afternoon we headed back to the Old Town Square to meet Richard and Debe who had gone up in the church to get more pictures ...

... work and has demanded going away drinks (any excuse they use to drink i reckon!) mite be heading back to scotland sunday. no plans after i see heleena and andy and chris for going away drinks sat nite, i have a week to do and come and go as i please! its gonna b great! then portugal! I like working in pubs/restaurants, u never know who u will meet hey. i met some random who lived in california and gave me his business ...

... Finally I do, and the new students stop hounding me. Thankfully, nothing blows up while I am gone. I ask the lady who brought me "C" to speak to "A", who I sent out earlier for being disrespectful. She is happy to do so. She is out there for quite some time and finally when I go out she says that she is not going to get anywhere with him this lesson and to just leave him out there for now. She will speak to his Head of House. Fine by me. I later go out to speak with him and he ...