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Tuesday
Monday
Kenwood and a Surprisingly nice Sunset
Goring, Streatley and the Bell Inn at Aldworth
Friday
Thursday
Wednesday
Gloom
Monday
Sunday
Sunrise in Scotland
Borders January 2023
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
Theatre
Snowdrop
Friday
Gemma
Wednesday
Cooking with Gin
Monday
Wahaca
Saturday
Wassail
Gallette des Rois
Backup
Tuesday
Monday
New Year's Day

Tuesday

[Tuesday 31st January 2023]
Just the usual quick visit to the heath while Erika was at her woodwork class.
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Monday

[Monday 30th January]
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Kenwood and a Surprisingly nice Sunset

[Sunday 29th January 2023]
A much longer than usual perambulation on the heath this afternoon, including a foray up to Kenwood House to try and find some snowdrops, and a surprisingly nice sunset seen from atop Parliament Hill.
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Goring, Streatley and the Bell Inn at Aldworth

[Saturday 28th January 2023]
Decided to go for a daytime stroll today, out in the Berkshire countryside, to revisit some old haunts - Goring and Streatley, then the beautiful Bell Inn at Aldworth.
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Friday

[Friday 27th January 2023]
End of the week fizz on the heath. Unfortunately it was Champagne, not English Sparkling.
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Thursday

[Thursday 26th January 2023]
Another early evening trudge around the heath.
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Wednesday

[Wednesday 25th January]
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Gloom

[Tuesday 24th January 2023]
A quick visit to Hampstead Heath in the post sunset gloom.
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Monday

[Monday 23rd January]
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Sunday

[Sunday 22nd January]
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Sunrise in Scotland

[Saturday 21st January 2023]
Woke up on a chilly Scottish clifftop and was treated to an amazing sunrise while I packed up my tent. Went for a quick wander around Berwick in the morning, then spent most of the daytime getting back home to London, but happily wiled away the hours on the train editing my latest video.
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Borders January 2023

[Friday 20th January 2023]
A quick 24 hour trip up to the Scottish borders, train to Berwick-upon-Tweed then a Burns Night themed wild camp on the clifftops at St. Abb's Head. I had a really fantastic time, albeit a bit chilly the next morning!
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Thursday

[Thursday 19th January 2023]
Popped out mid morning to buy a haggis for my upcoming camping trip. Just one random picture of some bags of popcorn outside a cinema.
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Wednesday

[Wednesday 18th January 2023]
Some camping things arrived, for my upcoming camping trip.
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Tuesday

[Tuesday 17th January 2023]
Just a picture of today's wine.
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Monday

[Monday 16th January]
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Theatre

[Sunday 15th January 2023]
I went to the Theatre this evening, to see a one-off play about Norman Balon, the former landlord of the Coach and Horses in Soho - kind of a follow on to Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell. To be honest the play wasn't that great, but I managed to get a box and that was nice.
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Snowdrop

[Saturday 14th January 2023]
First snowdrop of the year in the back garden.
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Friday

[Friday 13th January 2023]
Friday evening on the heath. Quite a nice sunset.
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Gemma

[Thursday 12th January 2023]
Old work friend Gemma was briefly in town (she currently lives in the US), so we rounded up some of the usual suspects for a night out.
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Wednesday

[Wednesday 11th January 2023]
Just a picture of today's wine.
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Cooking with Gin

[Tuesday 10th January 2023]
Did an experiment to see if I could boil water using gin as fuel. It sort of worked.
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Monday

[Monday 9th January]
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Wahaca

[Sunday 8th January 2023]
We haven't been to Wahaca since the one in Kentish Town closed, and Erika wanted to have their churros again. So for lunch we headed to the original one in Covent Garden. Afterwards the girls went to do some shopping and I headed to the heath.
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Saturday

[Saturday 7th January 2023]
Popped to Argos in the morning. Later on towards the end of the afternoon went to the heath for a bit.
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Wassail

[Friday 6th January 2023]
Wassailed the apple tree this evening.
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Gallette des Rois

[Thursday 5th January 2023]
Early evening visit to the heath. Later on in the evening we had another gallette des rois, and I got the "feve" (charm?) so wore the corresponding crown. Although it looked much better on Erika of course.
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Backup

[Wednesday 4th January 2023]
Got a new external hard drive to back up all the videos from my GoPro, and spent some time writing a script to do the backup and sort them into folders.
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Tuesday

[Tuesday 3rd January]
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Monday

[Monday 2nd January]
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New Year's Day

[Sunday 1st January 2023]
A rather gloomy late afternoon / early evening wallow on the heath to start the new year.
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