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Emsworth and a lost camera
Another long day of train travel to get to Emsworth near Chichester. Tea and cake at the Victorian café on Emsworth station. A hot, sunny day, taking lots of pictures as usual, marred by leaving my camera on the first of the two trains home. All pictures lost, unless the camera is found and handed in. There’s just this one which I took on the phone. Boo.
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A day trip to the Isle of Wight
A day trip to the Isle of Wight
A trip involving a couple of hours on a couple of trains allows for some quality reading time. On arrival in Southampton there’s a brisk walk to the ferry port to catch the noon boat to Cowes on the Isle of Wight. An hour on the outside decks is just the right length of time to enjoy the views and spot the boats.
A stroll along the promenade, a sandwich on the beach followed by browsing the small independent Medina Bookshop resulted in two books bought. What with the delays in the return journey it was a long day, not getting back home until after 9. But what a lovely day and well worth the effort!
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A burger and a kite
A burger and a kite
A sunny Sunday, some handiwork in the garden, some wine and a rare (but well-done!) burger, and in the afternoon some serious kite flying in a blustery wind.
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Lunch with Lucy
After lunch with Lucy, a walk through the very pleasant pedestrianised Strand. -
Plan 75
Plan 75
We christened my Curzon membership with a Japanese film at the Wimbledon venue.
“Plan 75” is set in Japan and envisages a government scheme to encourage voluntary euthanasia for citizens over the age of 75. There’s a slow build up to an emotional end. A superb, wonderfully acted film.
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Berlin, Nuremberg & Bamberg
Berlin
Our 6th visit (in 12 years) to Berlin to visit our son and his partner, but this time we flew from London City Airport rather than Gatwick. The BA planes have more legroom than EasyJet planes, the airport is much, much nicer and smaller than Gatwick. Getting to London City Airport is a bit trickier for us.
We like Berlin a lot and I particularly like the bigness of everything – the big buildings, the wide roads. Berlin is a lively, lived-in city where everyone seems to have been born in the 21st century – I feel old there! Our son and his partner were with us for most of our 6-night stay in Germany. This made being in a foreign country so much easier than if we had been on our own. Thanks to them we saw and did so much more. Thank you, Rich & Nadine.
Nuremberg
After 2 nights in Berlin the four of us took the high-speed train to Nurenberg for a 2-night stay. Nuremberg is a most attractive city. On the two days we were there the centre was swamped with people visiting a huge flea market, the largest in Germany. We visited the location of the Nuremberg Trials where these is an informative and exhaustive (and exhausting!) audio-visual exhibition of that period in German history.
Bamberg
On the train back to Berlin we broke our journey to spend a few hours in the attractive town of Bamberg.
Holiday eating
We ate well in all locations! Germans like to eat white asparagus during the short season.
Churches
I’m not religious but I do like big buildings and I’m always on the look out for a picture!
Something else
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It’s doing my head in…
It’s doing my head in trying to figure out the logic of how to play the cards in cribbage. My Visual Basic program is coming along but there’s been some tricky areas to figure out and this bit is proving difficult. The chart shows where I am with it but I can’t help but feel there’s an approach that would be simpler to code.
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Polesden Lacey
Polesden Lacey on a beautiful, late April day.
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A trip to Wales
A few days away to see my lovely aunt who lives in the tiny Welsh village Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. On the way we stayed at The Bear of Rodborough, a rather delightful hotel near Stroud in Gloucestershire. The next day we visited Hay-on-Wye, renowned for its many bookshops, then on to Llanrhaeadr to see my aunt over the next couple of days. A visit to the nearby town of Llangollen threw up a surprise with an amazing second-hand bookshop Books Llangollen which boasts an amazing 100,000 books to be perused. I needed a day there, not just half an hour!
View from our hotel room 
Hay on Wye bookshop 
Llanrhaeadr YM 
Llangollen 
Llangollen 
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Sutton 0-2 Leyton Orient
Sutton 0-2 Leyton Orient
Attracted by a visit from the division leaders, there was a larger than usual crowd (4,828) hoping to see a surprise Sutton victory though probably half expecting a massacre! Two well taken goals in the first half suggested the latter but Sutton played pretty well in the second half apart from a couple of lapses which should have been punished. A decent game on a pleasant, sunny afternoon.
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