Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 13th, 2008
Credit to the Black-Eyed Peas for this one – or if you want to see how the US Navy waste their time at sea watch this send-up. We’re back in Leicester and having great time meeting old friends finding out how much things can change in 18 months. For starters the city centre has been [...]
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Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 10th, 2008
It was with a heavy heart that I left our spoilt, pampered, yet beloved cats behind in Adelaide before we started this trip back to Britain. Pathetic I know, but over time we have become rather attached to our pets, and they are the closest we have to offspring, hence the paternalistic feelings. Fortunately we [...]
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Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 7th, 2008
It’s our second and final night in Edinburgh. To enhance our memories of being here, Ed arranged some complimentary tickets to a gig. This was another nostalgia trip as it is probably getting on for 10 years since I’ve been to a rock gig. In the interim I was more likely to be found at [...]
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Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 6th, 2008
Our whistlestop trip round the British Isles continues. Today finds us in bonny Scotland, staying with Ed and Sam. A very early start saw us getting on (yet another) plane in Gatwick this morning for the quick hop north of the border. While we were waiting to taxi to the runway the captain did the [...]
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Posted in Rick's Posts on Sep 3rd, 2008
We’re well into our holiday and have completed one of the planned trips. For the past couple of days we have been down on the south coast, staying with my sister. It has been some time since we’ve seen her flat, so it was nice to catch up and spot all of the improvements she [...]
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