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Monday 24th August, Derby Shopping day today.I wanted to get our vodafone sim cards sorted and the girls were dead keen that we helped Robin buy some clothes. Apparently someone had given her some money on a card at Debenhams, a big clothing store in the middle of Derby. Along the way we went to a couple of op shops. Altho' the idea was to get Robin new clothes from D's in Oxfam we saw a lovely green skirt, it had a really interesting hem line and was her size, only 5 pounds. I had to bully her in to it [View Full Entry]

suigeneris - Sue Genner | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 25th 2009 | 9 Views | [diary=439642]

Lichfield cathedral of 3 spires
Lichfield from front
Immense Inside

Sunday 23 August, Derby As Rob had only been to see Mim once yesterday she decided not to go to church in the morning and to visit Mim then. Cathy (friend) was coming for lunch and they had decided to have a traditional Sunday roast - Ann and I shoed Rob away and told her we'd do it. It is so nice to be able to do things for her - it's not a lot, dishes, some meals, hanging out the washing, helping with the pets - Rob works sooo hard. Ann & I went over our photos and we got [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 23rd 2009 | 7 Views | [diary=439092]

Colourful barges
heading over the iron bridge
Canal over road

21 August (Friday) 5 am, DerbyBy 9pm just could not keep the eyes open. Rob & Jerry went off to visit Mim, good thing they did'n't stay home to be sociable coz Ann & I were neither. Woke just before 3am. Ann had gone - not sure where she is - I suspect she stole a bed in Kirsten's room to escape the snoring! Pip was due home tonight but we weren't awake to see her - she was going to sleep in the lounge (Ann & I have her room). Later... It was lovely to meet Pip she is a [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 10th 2009 | 13 Views | [diary=435464]

Kiddleston Chapel
Kiddleston from the back
Kiddleston from front

By suigeneris
August 20th 2009
Aug 20 Derby Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Derby
19 August, Derby, 1:30 pm-ish.After a slow grinding progression along record- long queues at immigration (even those who travelled there regularly claimed it was much slower than usual), we headed for the exit. We knew our brother-in-law, Jerry, was meeting us but had thought Robin would probably not come and be visiting their sick daughter in hospital instead. Ann was the first to spot Jerry amongst the sea of faces then "Robin's there too" at that the tears just welled up in my eyes - there were huge tear-filled hugs all around and I realised it had been 9 years since [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 10th 2009 | 6 Views | [diary=435461]

The Bunnies
Bailey

Dearest all, Took the fast train (Eurostar) from Brussels to London, it only took us 2 hours i think we realized once on the train that we had no map and no idea about where the hostel we had booked online was or even what the name of it for that matter.. just a street name Katie asked for directions from these American sounding people that were also on the train hoping they too were tourists and had a map we could look at turns out they worked in london so they gave us directions to the nearest 'tube' station we [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 9th 2009 | 98 Views | [diary=389096]


The next leg of our trip is two weeks through the UK - mostly England and Scotland. Although we flew into Cardiff, we simply did not have enough time to explore it in any detail. Rather we grabbed a hire car and headed straight for the amazing city of Bath. This city is famous for a number of reasons, but none more that the ancient roman bath house which was discovered in the 19th century buried in years of river silt. The Romans came to this area around 44AD and established a fortified town which was centred around the only natural [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 29th 2008 | 251 Views | [diary=358157]

The Roman Baths
Stonehenge
HMS Victory

By Brooks Family
December 24th 2008
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HEIDI It only seems fitting that we touched down at Heathrow airport in dense fog. We have spent almost 2 weeks in England with family and friends. Highlights so far... 1) Our friend Chris Fitchew's 30th birthday party in London at the Cobden Club. He put on quite a show, including the lead singer from Rent on Broadway performing a song, a trapeze artist, ukelele playing women and amazing singers and dancers. 2) Seeing the entire Liverpool football team in our hotel lobby. 3) Amelia dying Justin's hair blond then shaving it so he looks like an older version of Eminem. [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 24th 2008 | 95 Views | [diary=356875]

London  Pub
Primrose Hill

By wordy
October 19th 2008
Jenny Europe » United Kingdom » England » Derbyshire » Derby
Jenny is now at Oxford University studying maths - this is the girl who got 3 x A's in her A levels!! She is boarding at St Annes College and we may hear some more gossip when she has been there a bit longer!! [View Full Entry]

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Published: October 19th 2008 | 26 Views | [diary=335952]

Jenny all dressed up and ready to go!

Hi to everyone from East Midlands and the Slee family home! It's Monday morning here and the sun is shining. Hopefully you have all recovered somewhat from the Cats loss. Dean had the alarm set for 5am Saturday morning in order to listen to the game online - it was frustrating to listen to so we can only imagine how difficult it must have been to watch! So on to happier things..... We are having a wonderful time here at Paul, Claire, Christian (12), Dominic (10) and Nattie's (3) home. They have been so welcoming and warm and we've had lots [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 29th 2008 | 39 Views | [diary=328880]

'Oblivion'
Melbourne Parish Church.
The kids.

Through the fierce hills of Oaxaca we rode; through Puebla state, Morelos, Mexico and Michoacan, where the road dipped and soared gently through the high contours, where sulphur hung on the air and plumes of pure white steam leaked from geothermal vents. We found charming, lively towns: Vallee de Bravo, where it takes a brave cyclist to tackle the quaint, but painful, cobbled streets; Morelia, where we ooohed and ahhhed at the music and fireworks show at the cathedral; Uruapan, self-styled centre of the avocado universe, disappointingly devoid of avocados, but where a passing Kelloggs deliver [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 14th 2008 | 71 Views | [diary=317561]

Rehabilitation underway
Rehabilitation continued
Wrong bike


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