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News reaches us from down under of a new addition to the Whiston family of Harbord. Congratulations Gary, Fiona and Georgia.
Born on the 18th of June and tipping the scales at 4.05 kilos, say hello to "Supermarket" Whiston.

On instructions from SWMBO I present yet another photo of JFGP pictured here in our hotel room in Barcelona.
Cue isn’t he cute/lovely etc comments. More importantly, what it doesn’t mention on that Trip Advisor link that I posted above is that this hotel has a unique feature. The in room mini bar is [...]

The family Todd are just back from a four day break in Barcelona. Lovely town, lovely people, lovely food and lovely rioja. Marvellous.
Mind you, sharing a hotel room with JFGP does limit one’s evening adventures somewhat. We were reduced to watching Spanish television (and CNN naturally).
Unless we wanted to watch third rate Bruce Forsyth [...]

A final mention, for now, of UK politics. Last week in addition to the Mayoral election there was a Europe wide poll for the European Parliament. As I may have mentioned before, Scaryduck wrote a tremendous piece on narrow minded people. Unsurprisingly he chose the Cornish.
In turn it wasn’t a great surprise that the [...]

A thoroughly enjoyable day today with the 70’s Throwback at the Bill Gwynne Rally School. We were driving Mark II Escorts around their gravel stage, practising the art of travelling both sideways and forwards at the same time. We also managed rather a lot of handbrake turns as well. Which was nice.
When I grow [...]

SWMBO has updated her blog. Possibly the least regularly updated web site ever, there have been a mere fifteen months between posts.
Worrying though, are the adverts that appear on the page. These are Google Ads which are targeted by addressing subjects that are mentioned on the page itself. When I viewed Bobo’s Babblings the [...]

Today, for the first time since about 1990, I exercised my democratic right to vote. There are a number of reasons for the gap. Amongst them are apathy, poll tax dodging and living overseas for a number of years. But it felt good to get back into the democratic saddle. Across the country we have [...]

Over on my other blog there is news of my latest gadget. This is what happens when SWMBO gives me some pocket money and tells me to "go up west and buy yourself something nice." Although I’m not sure she meant me to splash the cash on some technology.
This could be quite tragic. It means [...]

Congratulations to the Tinkie-Winkie Palmers of South East London on the arrival of their first born.
Baby palmer, a strapping young chap, was born at 9:51 am on Monday the 7th of June, 2004 and apparently tipped the scales at 7 pounds and 8 ounces or a bit over 3 and a third kilos in new [...]

Once more, old Scaryduck hits the nail on the head with his latest observation on those St George’s flags which are popping up everywhere. We, naturally, have none on our car, nor any items of Burberry attire, thankfully.
For those living in a whole in the ground, or overseas, Euro 2004 starts next week. As with [...]