Despite the weather (which actually was remarkably good) we had an excellent time at the 3rd Annual Cheltenham Beer Festival which was raising money for the Cheltenham Branch of The Samaritans. Last years event raised £6000 which is pretty impressive and helps keep The Samaritans running providing a service that really does help save peoples […]
Early in June after battering my head against the wall over the fiasco with United Airlines and their inability to refund money they took from us I found that their refunds department now had an email address rather than a fax number( which they didn’t want to let people have). You CANNOT phone the refunds […]
Well this weekend is the Friends of Cheltenham Samaritans beer festival. This is their third annual beer festival and if the other two were anything to go by then this too will be a great day out and with a very worthy cause. I’ve never needed the Samaritans myself because I’ve had people I’ve been […]
I said I’d write more about Maine when i got home. That was a month ago. I’ve not even gone through the 600+ photos I took and worked out which ones to upload to Flickr so I can include them in here. So what have I been up to? Well I’ve upgraded WPMU that this […]
Well we got back home on Friday. Had a couple of minor problems with luggage but its sorted now. I will be writing up some posts about the rest of the time in Maine when I’ve got some time… like next week at work! And I’ll get some photos uploaded onto Flickr too
Well all the preparation is done, the chapel is decorated, as is the venue for the party afterwards. Its been a couple of crazy days for Kathy with late nights and early mornings. Not so much for me as I’ve got my wrist in a splint having taken a fall early in the week. Nothing […]
Well its Sunday, Mothers Day, mothering Sunday, or whatever. Well it is over here in the USA. Kathy took Jen down to Portland for a makeover before her wedding (which is next weekend) and then Jen is taking her out for lunch. So I’m back here in Hallowell busy doing nothing. Its a sunny day […]
“Over 100 years ago, France started a war with Mexico. In the Mexican city of Puebla, two forts blocked the advance of the French troops. There were about 6,000 French and 2,000 Mexican soldiers. The Mexicans were under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza. On May 5, 1862, the French attacked the two forts. Before […]
Pemmaquid
Well we’re off to Maine for nearly 3 weeks. We’ve got my step-daughters wedding to go to (I’m doing the photographs) and we want to spend time with Kathy’s mum and we want to go sightseeing. Kathy wants to go down to Pemmaquid and sit by the ocean for a bit. We know that its […]
I’m not in a happy mood at all. At about 6am on Thursday February 28th we got a telephone call from Kathy’s sister telling us that her dad had died unexpectedly. It was obvious that Kathy, at least, needed to get back to Maine as soon as possible. To try to make things as easy […]