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By JRenee
June 22nd 2007

I have a confession to make...

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Waiting for my ride to go climb
Here I am waiting outside to go climbing. This day, I was climbing with Dave and his dad. Both excellent climbers.

I love England! I love Sheffield, and considered it my 'home town' for a period of about 3 weeks. I love the friends that I've made (my home-boys), and the fact that there is England's best climbing only 30 minutes away in the Peak District. I have a slew of people to call on to go climbing during the day, and some of the best of Sheffield to call on at night for some great company and food. I must make one thing clear: I have been in Italy for a week, and for some reason, I have started this blog [View Full Entry]

By Lucas and Cakes
June 3rd 2007

Leaving Party

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The Cake
Mmmmmmmm, sorry nobody got any but we just love cake!!!!!

So you probably came to the party was given a card and have now come for a look!!! It was great to see you all there, but it wasn't half hot!!!!! It was indeed a fabulous night full of laughter and beer!!! Some of you were VERY drunk (not naming any names, you know who you are!!!) and I hope you managed to survive sunday morning! We can tell you we have some very funny photos which we may use as blackmail when the fund is running a little low!!! So be careful! Here are a few photos of the [View Full Entry]

By JRenee
June 2nd 2007

Cheers from the UK

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Baby Lamb
This baby lamb was so cute! Sheep only have two nipples, so if they give birth to three or more babies then, all but two will survive. This one was adopted, and I fed it some milk out of a bottle wi... [more]

Well, it's been only 8 days since I landed in England, but it's seems like I've been traveling for ages. Let me give you a short recap, and then I'll begin by telling you about my travels, and my recent trip to the A & E (Accident and Emergency) where in America, we call it, "the ER." I started rock climbing in Thailand in Tonsai when some Kiwis took me rock climbing, and to cool off from the climb, we jumped into the ocean. I found it challenging and exciting. Once while climbing with my brother and Mark, Mathew climbed to [View Full Entry]

By supergran
May 23rd 2007

surely must be!? ------

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------- Time to go (well nearly).Have just picked up the van from gear linkage greasing, insurance arr.Mon and sent off to Coleraine with 1st class s.a.e. to Brett's address so hopefully I should get the disc/docs back tomorrow or next day.Not booking Dover till I have them. Since J+J arrive home this weekend and Brett,kathy and I are 'going to the dogs' on Fri - another first for me - I will hope to maybe re-commence my travels on Sat.Am writing this instead of going linedancing as planned because I appear to have pulled a muscle on my side plus van [View Full Entry]

By supergran
May 17th 2007

Patience is a virtue.

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Having expected to be in Sheffield for 7 days it has actually been 14 and still counting.The tyres mended the next problem was apparently no electrics to fridge('tho gas runs it!). Unfortunately though I had my suspicions whilst at Kells there was no real time to do much and so I crossed over and hoped.I should have known better.The other major problem revolved around yet more delay from Dolmen. Having messed me up re covernote, the same day a letter arrived saying the documents would follow.Contact with Kells confirmed that they had had no such docs so I tried ringing Dolmen.The [View Full Entry]

By freshfromegypt
May 17th 2007

3 days to go

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egypt jason Okey dokey, i've got everything i need for my trip to Egypt, just waitin 4 a memory card for my camera and its a go. I dont have an itinery as such, but some of the places i probably will be going to are the usual tourist hotspots, but i want to spend as much time as possible off the so called beaten track, hopefully will b there 4 1 month. so it looks a little something like this, for now(in no partic order): Cairo - loads to see and do here, especially those trianglular things that look [View Full Entry]

By Johnny Boy
May 12th 2007

Bike Safe

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Police Honda Fireblade
Can you imagine riding one if these for your job?

Once again I was up early taking “Chet”, my German Shepherd Dog out for a walk before I headed off for the day on the bike. Today was the Bike Safe course that I’d booked onto quite a while since and something that I’d been looking forward to. The course was run by the South Yorkshire Police and was to commence at 8-am sharp from the SY police workshops at Chapletown near Sheffield and was to finish at 5-pm later that day at the operations centre at Catcliffe, Sheffield, the place where the Egg Run started from a couple of [View Full Entry]

By megs83
May 10th 2007

sheffield

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well in the last few days i have seen more of woking and some of the outer parts of london as well as climbing st pauls cathedral which is amazing. we had a couple of quiet days as it was raining and i had a cold and both of us just wandered around town and went back home. crystle left for poland and seems to be having a great time which is good and i went up to sheffield to visit my cousin ian who studies up there. its a nice town a little bigger than i thought but nice. very [View Full Entry]

By supergran
May 9th 2007

Will I ever get away

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reparing the wheel
The camera never lies

Well I found the lights, negotiated the A75 and kipped down in one of the lay-bys.Bed is very comfy.3 hours later I made my way down to Westmorland Farms services(M6)(tremendous decor worth a visit)where I supped on coffee,donut and toasted T cake then travelled on to Cheshire making for Deva orchids.1 diversion later and circuitous routing I purchased several orchids and went on to Joan and Den's.Had a lovely long visit and they accompanied me to the M56 to make for Sheffield.Having given me a correct route I appear to have pocketed it and then thought Joan had kept it(appologies).Also [View Full Entry]

By supergran
May 5th 2007

The adventure begins.......

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Here we go again! Since my last entry I have had still more hassle as tho' the van arrived ok I have found it much harder to handle than I expected.Time to departure date got steadily nearer and I waited and waited and waited for the insurance covernote to arrive. By 3/5 it hadn't.I then rang Dolmen(dublin) and they said it had been sent but (at my suggesion )they would send an e-mail copy. Great I thought now I can complete my errands('messages') in Ballymena and pick up the tax disc. When am I going to learn!! I continued to mooch [View Full Entry]

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