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July 4th
In the US July 4th is Independence Day. Here in the UK, July 4th this year happens to be election day. As I waited to see if Labour...
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Sep 1, 20243 min read
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3 July - The Tate Britain
Last night's wonderful celebration (with more wine than was probably wise) dictated that this morning would start with a lie-in. In fact,...
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Aug 16, 20242 min read
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2 July - Happy birthday to me...
After last night's wonderful celebration at Brooklands, it's hard to imagine how I could surpass it. That doesn't mean I wouldn't try,...
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Aug 16, 20243 min read
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1 July and 11 January
When we were in London in January, I got rather lazy toward the end and didn't finish writing about my last few days. This is where I...
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Jul 25, 20244 min read
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26-30 June - Typhoid Mary? Camille? Whatever.
The bronchitis was well and truly setting in which was irritating because we had plans to visit friends for dinner on Wednesday. As they...
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Jul 20, 20243 min read
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25 June -
Last year when we visited Kenya, I came down with bronchitis. I'm hoping that isn't going to become a trend, but over the past few days I...
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Jul 15, 20245 min read
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24 June - Preston
I've mentioned that we're big fans of Mowgli street food restaurant. Don't know if I mentioned that they have a bit of a promotion called...
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Jun 27, 20243 min read
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23 June - Into Liverpool
I spent a leisurely morning while the weather tried to decide what to do. As the sun started to come out, I walked to the bus stop and...
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Jun 26, 20245 min read
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20 - 22 June - Ready, set, go (or not)
20 June We'll be leaving tomorrow morning for our next cat sit so, as always, today is devoted to cleaning and packing. The house and...
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Jun 23, 20243 min read
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19 June - National Museum Cardiff
Now that Taylor Swift and her minions were either out of town or leaving it was safe to venture back into the city, so we headed to the...
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Jun 20, 20243 min read
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18 June - Sain Ffagan Amgueddfa Werin Cymru
Sorry, I couldn't resist. That's Welsh for Saint Fagan's National Museum of History, and it was our destination today. We had originally...
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Jun 20, 20246 min read
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17 June - ABC and a nice walk
Miraculously, I awoke to another sunny day! Mustn't waste it, so because the Cardiff Museum was closed, we decided to go to Llandaff...
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Jun 18, 20243 min read
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16 June - Cardiff Bay
What a lovely surprise to see the sun first thing in the morning. Since rain was forecast for most of the week, we decided to take...
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Jun 18, 20244 min read
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15 June - Cardiff Castle
We caught the bus into Cardiff to visit the famous Cardiff Castle. This place has such a long, interesting history. The Castle began life...
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Jun 17, 20248 min read
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13 & 14 June - At home and in Cardiff
June 13 The coldest and rainiest of rainy days kept me inside all day, but it was fine. I lounged around the house, worked on the blog...
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Jun 16, 20243 min read
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12 June - Barry
It looked to be another nice, if chilly, day so we decided to take the bus to Barry, a town on the north coast of the Bristol Channel. It...
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Jun 15, 20243 min read
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11 June - Gardens and footpaths
The weather in the UK has been unseasonably cold and rainy since we've been here. Even the news presenters are moaning about it on the...
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Jun 15, 20245 min read
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9 & 10 June - Moving and exploring
9 June It was overcast and chilly (are you seeing a pattern?). I packed, we tidied up, then walked along the seaside to the observatory...
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Jun 13, 20243 min read
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8 June
It was another chilly day so we had a leisurely breakfast at the flat before Bruce started out for the pubs and I started out to see a...
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Jun 13, 20242 min read
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7 June - The Mumbles, the castle and Heyden
We'd been told by the man on the train from Bath that if we were going to Swansea, we had to go to the Mumbles which is on the Gower...
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Jun 13, 20246 min read
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