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Not feeling the best today for my flight out of London to New York, it takes around 8 hours lets hope it goes quick...........Had to pack up my suitcases again, not getting used to this whole packing & unpacking business but it has been so worth it. Walked down the road to get breakfast, egg & bacon roll, coffee & water. Packed up the rental car & then headed out to see Jase's Aunt & Uncle, they were looking after Will for the day & night. They were really friendly, Don & Penny, had a light lunch then got back in [View Full Entry]

Pitty15 - Michelle Pitman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 3rd 2009 | 84 Views | [diary=425096]


Today was a really restful day in Aberdeen, had to pack all my bags for the journey to London today at 2.oopm. Becc & I went to the gym yesterday again, could so get used to going to this gym. Its been great to still be able to work out & holiday at the same time. Had to check all the footy scores both AFL & Barossa League......not so good about the Bombers but the Pies are going great guns. Packed both my suitcases & they are very heavy, will hate to see what they weigh at the end of my [View Full Entry]

Pitty15 - Michelle Pitman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 29th 2009 | 98 Views | [diary=423595]

Jase & Becc's Home
Aberdeen.....

Today Annie and I went to visit Fiona (Annie's old flatmate who I got to know a little bit in 2007) and her new baby J in the town of Woking (nicknamed shocking woking). He is only about 8 weeks old and was so lovely to cuddle! It further cemented in my mind the idea of having another baby (possibly, maybe???)! I enjoyed chatting with Fiona is a very honest person - a breath of fresh air. If the highlight of the day was cuddling baby J, then the low light definately was baby J vomited dawn my clevage! After we [View Full Entry]

freddodimms - Win | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 7th 2009 | 32 Views | [diary=416087]

Greenwhich Boat
Baby J
Waterloo Bridge 2

I told you yesterday that we’d be going to Greenwich today to take a tour of the Royal Observatory and see the Prime Meridian. Well, we did! Here’s how things went: Around 8:30, Eileen’s alarm clock woke me up, but apparently she was already awake and in the shower, so she wasn’t around to turn it off. This left me to mindlessly search by hand hitting the table for her alarm clock (mind you, I was wearing a sleep mask that I really didn’t want to take off, else I should wake up completely from the light outside streaming in through [View Full Entry]

JoshinYasha - Ash Litton | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 2nd 2009 | 30 Views | [diary=414583]


Spent time at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich where we stepped on the Greenwich Meridian line and contemplated time looking at various clocks and telescopes through the ages. We also went inside the walk in Camera Obscura, which is a giant “pin hole camera”. Since it was "aimed" at the River Thames area, it showed pedestrians, cars, trucks ... ok lorries ... and Thames river cruisers. Kind of like an ancient video camera. Only no replay nor audio. [View Full Entry]

New - NalinEvaWyn | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 2nd 2009 | 15 Views | [diary=414601]

Directions
Greenwich Standards
View of Greenwich Observatory

Took the Docklands Light Rail to the National Maritime Museum to see British Naval and Maritime history enroute to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. It's a good museum that's kid friendly. In fact, there were several school groups there. The museum shows the importance that accurate time measurement played in the history of navigation. Latitudes could be determined from a Sextant and the stars. But, longitudes had to be created with the standardization of time to make East-West travel a practical reality. Does this mean no clocks meant no colonization? What if the Luddites had busted cloc [View Full Entry]

New - NalinEvaWyn | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 2nd 2009 | 18 Views | [diary=414602]

Eva and Wyn
Wyn
Doorway Swords

Henry's Beatles Adventure at the O2 4000 school children from across the country came together to sing at a performance to mark the life of the Beatles and raise money for charity "Voices for a Better World". After months of practicing Henry and c30 of his Slade schoolmates joined the fun at the O2 Arena in London. Itinery - Left school at 11AM for O2 Arena on coach - Had lunch outside the arena - Perfomance practice with everyone for a few hours - Had supper - 6.30 warm including a new world record for the most people attending a [View Full Entry]

The Johnson Five - Simon Katherine Henry James Edward Johnson | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 2nd 2009 | 51 Views | [diary=414355]

O2 Entry
Ticket to Ride
Performance 1

The start of our European Adventure begins as we finished up work in Birmingham (again). Day 440 (25/6/09) After a another farewell dinner at Morrocan restaurant with Bill, Sarah and Chris, followed by a couple more drinks at the local Fighting Cocks. Jez kicked on into the wee hours and stumbled home convinced he'd been locked out despite having keys in his pocket. We headed off to work to tie up all the loose ends for a couple hours, Jez feeling a little worse for wear. We picked up our gear, had quick lunch, tidied up and farewelled Birmingham for the [View Full Entry]

Carly and Jez - Carly and Jez | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 19th 2009 | 25 Views | [diary=426166]

Maritime Museum
The ceiling of the Dining hall
Carls straddling GMT

Day 1. Just a short boring note to let you all know we've made it safely to London and the weather is great! A damp day in Moncton, with a forecast of rain through the week and into the weekend. Fog as thick as pea soup through the Cobequid pass, but it clears soon enough and traffic on a Tuesday night is light so we make great time. Once in Halifax, Curtis makes friends with airport security, see pic of the special attention he received. :P We take off at midnight on time. This had to be the biggest non military [View Full Entry]

So this is life at 40 - Denise D | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 24th 2009 | 91 Views | [diary=411967]

Halifax airport
Our plane to London
Dang it's cold out there!

We got a text from Clive this morning, and after talking to him on the phone, have arranged to try to meat him for a coffee later today. Our plan for today is to go to the Greenwich observatory where you can stand in booth of the world's hemispheres simultaneously, As well, they have a display on about the North West Passage which my cousin Chris has recommended. Getting to Greenwich involves taking the DLR line, a local train service that runs past the new developments at the docklands. This area, which includes Canary Wharf, looks completely different from London and [View Full Entry]

The Joy Family - Grahame Joy | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 1st 2009 | 13 Views | [diary=414205]

In seperate hemispheres
At platform 9 3/4
Making Guliver's travels


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