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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Maryon Park
Maryon Park, in the heart of London’s Woolwich area, is a quiet and beautifully tranquil place of tall tree-lined dark secluded pathways and of steps that lead to another meadow of breeze ruffled trees swaying in motion with one’s inner thoughts and aspirations. It was also the setting for Antonioni’s 1966 cult film ‘Blow Up’ that featured David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave.
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The Grove
Marilyn has booked us excellent seats for The Grove Theatre’s forthcoming presentations of ‘Aida’ ‘Tarandot’ and ‘Swan Lake’ so it’s time for a carton of Kiora-orange, a lolly, and a bag of popcorn! No rocking in the back seats though please.
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Cutting Back!
With the Credit Crunch upon us, and a huge recession looming ever nearer, like an iceberg in the path of the Titanic – I would perhaps, enter a note of salvation in the form of Martin Lewis. His website offers practical and useful ways in which you can make your money go further, offers, deals, and ways to shop and save money! Click here, and better still, sign up for his regular email: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com
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A Welcome Return…
When Jan and Zena returned from Vienna The Horse and Jockey supported us with a splendid four hour luncheon of smoked salmon, fresh Icelandic prawns, grilled West Country chicken, Wiltshire roast pork, and Eton strawberries and cream, washed down… with ample measures of Jack Daniel’s, gin and tonic, and vodka and orange, and large cups of frothy Costa.
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Hard Times!
Ben has been my driver for over ten years. He arrived in the UK in short trousers from Pakistan, took his driving test, and decided to make professional driving a career. He married here in England, had three beautiful children, and until last year returned home to his beloved parents in Pakistan for two months of every year. Now things are tough, he told me on our recent shopping trip to Marks. I will only send one of my children this year, just so their grandparents can see a member of my family. Hassan will go with an uncle who is also visiting relatives, but not me, not my wife, not my other children… we must wait! Things are tight. You don’t know what’s around the corner… people are losing their jobs every day! We just cannot afford those past pleasures anymore!
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Bottled Water!
Bottled Water! What on earth is that all about! In the UK we pay a high price for clean drinkable water piped into our own home, and available 24 hours a day come summer or winter. This Island home is barely 500 miles as the crow flies, with so many rivers, springs, lakes, ponds and pubs, that it’s not long before you run the risk of falling into one… but what do we do? We poodle off at every God given moment to purchase huge quantities of imported bottled water from our chosen Supermarket because we are told it has been fermented in underground rock walled caverns for centuries! If it is centuries old… It can’t be that fresh!
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No Christmas Stuffing for Me!
It would be around about 4 in the morning of the 28th of December, when Marilyn decided to put me through the hoops for not having bought her a Christmas present or Card. Well, my decision might have been based on the fact that she had organised a tantrum on Christmas Eve over my phoning Zena in Austria, my son Adrian, and an old friend named for some silly reason as ‘rob rat!’, a model friend of the family refered to as ‘Spam’, and for writing something pointless on facebook!, - whilst she was wrestling with stuffing an oversized Turkey ready to go oven-bound! So The New Year has brought me nothing more than sackcloth and ashes, along with some over inflated bills from British Gas!
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My Original Quotes
On Age: When one is young, one reads an instruction manual last, when one is old, one reads an instruction manual first!
On Death: The thing I don’t like about death is; when you are dead, you no longer know that you’ve had a life.
On Moments: Everything living, man or insect, gets that one moment, that one split second, when they know they are no more.
On Photographers: We are all photographers, nobody becomes famous by just taking pictures, it’s whats in front of the camera that makes you famous.
On The British: The British don’t swear as much as others. They just think about it until it goes out of fashion.
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Tagged Patrick Callaghan Quotes.
Enid Stamp Taylor – Actress 1904 – 1946
Enid was born in Percy Avenue, Whitley Bay, during the early hours of the 12th of June 1904. She lived most of her adult life in the West End of London, and where she suffered from a blood clot in her brain whilst in the bathroom of her Park Lane apartment in the cold January of 1946. Three days later she passed away at the Atkinson Morley hospital in Wimbledon and was buried in the secluded and peaceful grounds of Alfold Parish Church… and that’s perhaps, where my story began…
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