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Blogs

Posted on August 4, 2007 by Steve

Andrew Denny has a post on his blog GrannyButtons about blogs and links. Basically he’d commented in his blog about a post on another blog about a new Marina development. As you’d expect he had included links to the original … Continue reading →

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Living without mains water

Posted on July 29, 2007 by Steve

Well its a week since the Mythe Works which produces all our drinking water shutdown after being flooded. Severn Trent’s contingency plans involving a few hundred bowsers is a “logistical nightmare” (a direct quote from Severn Trent) with tankers being … Continue reading →

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Flooding

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Steve

It wasn’t fun getting home on Friday – although the middle of the trip was OK the start of it (from Hanley Swan to Upton) was pretty bad due to serious flooding on the Hanley Road near Hanley Castle and … Continue reading →

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Beer and Boats and the BSS, Part Two

Posted on July 8, 2007 by Steve

Well yesterday was a most excellent and enjoyable day. Met Nick at the bottom of the road and we headed off to the Cheltenham Friends of the Samaritans beer festival at the Old Patesians Rugby Club. They had about 26 … Continue reading →

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A Few Pictures from Bude

Posted on July 6, 2007 by Steve

Here are a few pictures from Bude: The Falcon Hotel Situated right down by the canal on the edge of town – a 3 star hotel with a good restaurant and wifi (£5 for 24 hours) and with its own … Continue reading →

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Beer and Boats and the BSS

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Steve

Well its going to be a bit of a mad weekend. On Saturday Nick, myself and a few friends are off to the ‘Second’ Cheltenham Beer Festival’ which is run by the Friends of the Samaritans as a way of … Continue reading →

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A trip to Bude

Posted on July 2, 2007 by Steve

 Last Saturday (23rd June) morning we headed down to Bude for a couple of days. Leaving Cheltenham just after 7am might have seemed mad but it worked extremely well and, including a stop at Bridgewater Services (which I wouldn’t advise) … Continue reading →

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Weekend… what weekend

Posted on June 17, 2007 by Steve

So its the weekend – those two days when you don’t go to work, those two days when you relax and don’t do the things that last week you said you’d do this weekend. Ahh – if that was only … Continue reading →

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The Day after the

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Steve

Well it has to be said that yesterday was a good day… Due to a slight miscalculation on timings Nick and I nearly missed the train but after a mad dash we made it to the station… just to find … Continue reading →

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Pubnight Pub Crawl

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Steve

Today Pub Night Council are off on a pub crawl round Gloucester.  We are only planning to do a handful of pubs, but those we have picked have a wide range of ales – which is more important than the … Continue reading →

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