Fill your days with life, not your life with days
Photo: Woodbridge watermill from along the river Deben Outdoors then indoors. Storm Dennis shaped our weekend with friends David and Carolyn in Woodbridge, Suffolk. Outdoors David and Colin decided that we'd ride the 158km to Woodbridge from London. Our wives decided on more comfortable transport. Our ride attracted two other riders from ICC. Desmond and …
Photo: Home from home. Federico and Colin enjoying a Moretta di Fano "Bravado" Definition: a bold manner or a show of boldness intended to impress or intimidate. Nico demonstrated this brilliantly on his last night with us. Nico is the 11 year old nephew of a Pansèr club mate. His dream was to see London. …
Photo: "So ferry 'cross the Mersey 'cause this land's the place I love" A christmas present that turned out to be a pilgrimage. The second, and final, Act of "You'll Never Walk Alone" For Jan's Christmas present Colin had bought two tickets for Liverpool vs Southampton. It was the obvious game to choose for a …
Photo: The completed task We were on a mission. To complete Jan's nearly god daughter's school project. In December a letter arrived from Molly with Flat Stanley. He'd been flattened by a steam roller and was now very flat. The letter asked Jan to take Stanley on adventures and send him back to her school …
How to stretch your age a little. Have your birthday in one decade and celebrate in another. To be fair, Pete's birthday falls in December when they tend to be overlooked, or even worse, combined with Christmas. Other than Pete and Len we knew no one else at the party so we got to meet …
Photo: starting out at Rame Head A few fun days in Cornwall was just what we needed. With friends Angel and Neil we enjoyed clean air, walks, Cornish fishing villages, laughs, pubs and fish. Lot's of fish. Cornish crab sandwiches became the lunch time mantra. One of the joys of visiting sea side towns and …
Yesterday we said goodbye to Jan's father, Roy, at his funeral. He died on the 30th December, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. After diagnosis Roy had agreed that his brain could be used for medical research into this terrible disease. As he also had vascular dementia his brain was of great value …
Photo: David in full flow explaining what happened to him. This evening we visited a friend of ours who ended up in hospital with a broken pelvis. David had been circling The Regent's Park with ICC when he clipped the wheel of the bike in front and down he went. Falling from the saddle is …
Last night we sat down to watch Heston's Marvellous Menu: Back to the Noughties. In the programme Heston Blumenthal re-united his old team and re-created the Fat Duck restaurant as close to 2001 as they could make it. It included tracking down some artwork that is no longer on the walls. We recognised the artwork …
Photo: Earlier in the day (during the night) we saw Baga Chipz, a drag act at the Channel 4's Alternative Election Night. That night another chip reference. Three months ago Andy, Cliff, Gino, Jyde and Sean came out to Italy for the third ICC Pansèr Twinning trip. In a remarkable act of generousity they treated …
