Fill your days with life, not your life with days
Photo: If I stay really still you won't see me. One of our many lizard friends that made it's home in the barbecue whilst we were in lockdown. Fields have dominated our time back in Italy over the last few weeks. Jan has been running next to them and Colin has been doing the same …
Photo: A border of a different kind. The 'confine' between us and the road President Macron obliged. He confirmed that the French border would open on Monday 15th June. We planned to leave on Tuesday night. A couple of friends crossed the channel on Tuesday morning, no problems. Encouraged, we packed the car, had lunch, …
Photo: St. Katharine Docks, one of our destinations whilst taking our exercise walks Our London Lockdown is coming to an end. At least we hope so. It's all subject to President Macron's speech to the nation on Sunday evening. Unless there is a surprise in store we're booked to drive to Cartoceto on Wednesday. The …
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, two minutes silence at 11:00 and a '1940s Gin Cocktail' on the balcony before dinner. The recipe for the cocktail is from the Bletchley Park website. City of London Gin, fresh lime juice, bitter lemon over ice. Cheers
Photo: Bubbles on the balcony What would you do if your birthday fell in the midst of a global lockdown? Have a lie in of course. Another one. Not if your uncle, aunt and cousin live in New Zealand you don't. The phone went off at 8 o'clock. No way were we going to answer …
Photo: We discovered a footpath under the famous bridge with no one around Just like everybody else we're counting down the time when we will have a little more freedom. Life for us in lockdown isn't too bad. We're used to each other's company and we're a lot better off than most. We've tried to …
Photo: Not quite what we had in mind Jan's big day. We were supposed to be in Tel Aviv for Jan's special birthday. SARS-CoV-2 had other ideas. Instead of a boutique hotel for a week and a top end dinner on her birthday we had English sparkling wine on the balcony and dinner at home. …
Photo: Just queuing in the rain If we had bucket lists, this would be on Colin's. To watch an episode of QI being recorded. Series R. Restaurants. The first rows of seats were set out like restaurant tables. We were behind them in row 4. We didn't get any food. Nor did they. If you've …
Jan and I are unanimous on which one we prefer. What do you think?
We attended a demonstration today outside Parliament highlighting the scandal that is inflammable cladding on hundreds, if not thousands of buildings in the UK, including ours. Also in attendance were: Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater ManchesterSadiq Khan, Mayor of LondonTom Copley AM, Deputy Mayor of London for HousingJohn Healey, Shadow Housing Secretary and MP for …
