Whitby regatta

August 30th, 2009

As I have already mentioned Whitby Folk Week 2009 has just finished.  It was a fantastic week, I love going to Whitby anyway but folk week just makes it better.  This year was different to any other week I have been because it was the regatta as well for the starting weekend.
We got there last [...]

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Changing the way we get TV

August 30th, 2009

If I think of a house I always think of a two storey building with a chimney pot with an aerial attached to it.  But it looks like the years of the aerial on every house is numbered with the advancements in IPTV.  Instead of getting the television signal through an aerial or dish soon [...]

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High definition and free TV

August 29th, 2009

I spent the afternoon in a caravan with a load of people from Whitby folk week, it s a tradition that my wife has been brought up with.  For the past 20 years my wife and parents in law have been to a party in their friends caravan on the Saturday after folk week.  The [...]

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Inspection of our decorating

August 20th, 2009

My parents in law have been today to look around our house.  It was quite tense, as they own the majority of it, having forked out the amount we needed as a mortgage.  They haven’t been for months, thanks to my wife negotiating skills… and it’s a good job too because it’s looked like a [...]

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Eating and drinking

August 19th, 2009

As I have previously mentioned, I love my wine.  I think I am quite traditional as to when and where I drink it.  A bottle of white wine on a simple picnic in a beautiful area is wonderful.  I have recently discovered Wollaton hall, gardens and deer park, which is the perfect place for a [...]

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Finally finished the house

August 19th, 2009

Woo hoo I have finally finished my living room.  It has been a long time coming with lots of set backs but I think it was worth it.  It is only the second room in the house that we got to do ourselves.  Because my parents in laws helped us buy the house they were [...]

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Opening a bank account

August 16th, 2009

I have always been rubbish with my finances.  I have said it before and it will probably say it again as it I doubt it will ever change.  I have tried a little bit to improve my organisation by opening a new bank account.  I am going to use it to separate my money into [...]

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Nice foods

August 14th, 2009

We have had a very stressful year and as such I believe I have become some what of an expert on a few things, the first being caramel shortcake or millionaires shortcake.  Thornton’s outstrips the competition to the extent that a packet of 12 can be obliterated by the two of us in about 6 [...]

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Security in the garden

August 13th, 2009

I walked down to the pub for the first time since I moved in, and it is the first time I have walked down the road in that direction.  I was shocked to find that I could see the whole of my garden open to the road.  I started to look at how our garden [...]

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Doing up the living room

August 12th, 2009

I cannot believe the weather has finally turned and I’m stuck inside doing DIY again… OK so that really is my own choice, now I’ve got started I just want to get it all finished and I’ve actually got the time for once with it being the school summer holidays.  B&Q has become our regular [...]

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