The weather was good with temperatures in the low 50’s °F – its often much colder at this time of year. There were going to be 13 of us for Thanksgiving Dinner and as we wanted enough left overs to go round we’d decided to cook two turkeys. But how do you do that with […]
We’ve got a pretty good routine working for flying to America. It starts with driving down to Heathrow the night before the flight and staying in a hotel close to the airport – usually the Park Inn as it does park and fly deals where you can get a room and 15 days of parking […]
Norwich might not sound like an obvious destination for a weekend away from Cheltenham as it’s not the easiest place to get to but it is a trip worth doing if you like Real Ale ( or “Craft” beers for that matter ). We left Cheltenham on the Friday morning of Race Week and we […]
I looked at what was over on canalplan blogs and decided that actually pulling the couple of live blogs over to here and closing down that site was the best thing to do. So I exported and imported the posts along with the images and put a .htaccess rule to force 301 redirects over to […]
Seriously? Where did it go? One minute it was the start of January and the next it’s suddenly February and I’ve not posted anything anywhere. I suppose the only positive thing I can say is that actually I did do a few things in January, the biggest was the now traditional annual pub crawl in […]
So it’s 2015 and I thought that maybe I should start blogging properly. I’d already got my blog over on canalplan blogs but I got to thinking that maybe I should separate the two and make a blog site that any member of the family can have a blog on. So here it is….. And […]