Christmas Eve Wayne and I wondered to the village for a drink before midnight mass to see in Christmas day and sing some carols, we then headed back home looking at the neighbours lights. We woke up on Christmas Day and headed down stairs and made egg sandwiches to start our day off. We opened our presents - I got a laptop, a fancy watch and a really soft dressing gown. Wayne got gadgets! We were both really chuffed and fiddled with our new toys for a bit before heading out on our Christmas family tour. First stop was East Hanningfield [View Full Entry]

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Yes, it's final...im back in england!! spent a lovely couple of days wondering around delhi, absorbing as much of india as i could...actually really quite like the place, although it was REALLY busy & crowded. also made sure i ate all the wonderful foods at every possible moment so as to make the most it while i still could! for my last night i got taken out by a friend (brother of a friend from uni)who lives in delhi...such a sweetie, took me to a swanky little place for dinner...amazing food & way too mcuh & then to 2 very plush [View Full Entry]

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The Office closed on the 21st December and we all had a well deserved 2 weeks off! Yippee. A good night out with the girls on Friday night started celebrations - Wayne was the other end of Chelmsford with his work pals. I think it is safe to say the girls had more fun than the boys! Jan, Kate and myself headed to the Bassment and danced the night away. I headed home with Wayne sharing a cab back to Nounsley. We had a long lie in the next day. Saturday night was the gym Christmas do. It was a let [View Full Entry]

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Hi guys!! Just to let you know I arrived back home on the 16th and had a good but weird birthday! Didn't do much as I was tired from the flights! Was soooo excited to have a hot shower!!!!! The last few days in Costa Rica were cool, me, Nicole and Jada did even more hitch hiking as it really was the best way to get around - the buses sucked big time!!! We spent the last day team building moving the spare trees which hadn't been planted (remember the watering we had to do?), well at least 1000 trees didn't [View Full Entry]

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This week at the office was our pre break build up. Monday was my annual appraisal, surprisingly fairly pain-free!! Wednesday we had an open morning for members of our groups to come in and talk to us. Loads of people turned up to chat to me about various things, mince pies and yule log fuelled discussion. The team went out for a bonding lunch - actually paid for by the office (first time for everything). The office Christmas lunch was my responsibility this year. We went to the Blue Strawberry on Thursday for a long lunch. Lots of fantastic food and [View Full Entry]

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Our last 2 and a half days back in England after our week in Lanzarote were spent washing, tidying, sorting and packing. We have bought a new trolley case so we have a bag each and one with all the things that we don't need to take to Europe. This is the biggest bag and consists of our summer clothes, things we have bought, books and travel guides. The one thing we did do today was to walk to Moe and Colin's. Moe who assists Nessie with the housekeeping in the B&B has popped in several times to see us. She [View Full Entry]

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The last few weeks work and life generally have gone hectic again! Sat 10th November we went to London for engagement drinks with Hazel and Andy, Wayne’s friends. I wasn’t feeling very well so we didn’t stay to late. Lots of work meetings followed including a session at Stock Primary School. Wed 14th November a group from the dive club went to see The Drifters. They were brilliant. We had a fantastic night out. Fri 16th November went to Escape to celebrate Katherine’s birthday. It was lovely to see Tamsin and Paul again after soooooooo long. Shame I had [View Full Entry]

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The last few days have been much quieter than most, we relaxing, tidying up around the house, and generally doing nothing much more than we would at home. We did go to Harlow to look around and do some shopping. Judy introduced Rags to Primark, a place where clothing sells at low prices with the company depending on turnover to make it's money. Interesting place and we walked out with a couple of tops and some new socks for Rags. In the plaza they had some markets where food was the main seller and we had a couple of hot speciality [View Full Entry]

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Everything has a beginning, and for my trip to Copenhagen, the beginning takes place in Stansted Airport. This is my first trip out of the UK ever since I arrived at UK at the end of July. (I'm working in Slough for 18 months from August 2007.) I chose Copenhagen as my first "out-of-UK" trip because my cousin was having student exchange there and I wanted to visit him. Being budget-conscious, my friends and I decided to take a budget flight from London to Copenhagen. Out of the numerous airports in South East England, Heathrow is the nearest to my home, [View Full Entry]

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Saturday 3 November We'd decided to have a catch up day today and Rags bought us a couple of papers to relax with. We were sitting enjoying the papers feeling a bit guilty because the sun was out again when Rags said, “Aren't there markets somewhere today?” We'd written them down in our notebook so Judy checked and yes, Maldon had markets so with the added incentive that this was a harbour town we rushed around and readied ourselves to leave by 10am. After a couple of wrong turns we arrived in Maldon by 11am. Once we had found the parking [View Full Entry]

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