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Recent Entries:: Sitges to Barcelona to Paris to London
Sunday in Sitges
Saturday in Sitges
Paris to Sitges
Paris
Wednesday
Lubricating Locks
Royal Ascot Badges
Burgh Island to Starcross
Saturday on Burgh Island
Friday
Ciao Bella
Gev Chap
Wine Deliveries
Monday
Oliveto and The Angel
Zoo
ESW and Sabrage
Gerry the Giraffe Diary
Damp Proofing
Tip and Tent
Cellar Beams and Aoki-san
Clearing out the Cellar
Gerry the Girafe goes to Guildford
Goat, Sketch, Princi
Chie's Birthday
Rhubarb
More Face Painting
May Day
Highgate Woods

Sitges to Barcelona to Paris to London: [Monday 29th May 2017]
Travelled all the way back to London from Sitges in one day today.
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Sunday in Sitges: [Sunday 28th May 2017]
I had lunch down by the harbour before heading up to the villa to join the others for one long party from the afternoon into the small hours of the morning. Oh and I finally went in the pool. In a suit.
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Saturday in Sitges: [Saturday 27th May 2017]
Slept in late and slobbed around at my hotel in the morning. In the afternoon I went and joined the others for a tour of a cava winery. Went back to my hotel for a bit more after that and persuaded the others to come down to the harbour for dinner, where there was a really nice little street of restaurants. Back to the villa for post dinner drinks.
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Paris to Sitges: [Friday 26th May 2017]
Breakfast at the ever spectacular Train Bleu before getting the TGV down to Barcelona. Took a local train from there down to Sitges, only about half an hour away, and then had a bit of time to myself to explore the town before meeting the others. Went to the villa for some Veuve Clicquot (sabraged of course) before heading back into town for a fittingly Spanish late dinner of paella, then a bar and finally a moonlit stroll along the shore back to my hotel.
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Paris: [Thursday 25th May 2017]
Got the Eurostar after work (so handy from my new office!) and met up with Benoit in Paris for the evening so I could get an earlier train to Barcelona the next morning.
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Wednesday: [Wednesday 24th May]
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Lubricating Locks: [Tuesday 23rd May 2017]
Rather unexcitingly received a can of apparently the correct substance to be used for lubricating locks.
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Royal Ascot Badges: [Monday 22nd May 2017]
Badges for Royal Ascot arrived today. Also less excitingly I bought some WD-40.
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Burgh Island to Starcross: [Sunday 21st May 2017]
Breakfast at the Burgh Island Hotel, then rather reluctantly checked out, got a taxi to Dartmouth, the ferry across to Kingswear, then the steam train from there to Paignton. A normal train from there to Starcross where I popped in to visit Dad and Janie for a bit before getting the train back to London.
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Saturday on Burgh Island: [Saturday 20th May 2017]
Waved the girls off at Heathrow in the morning, then went back to Paddington to get a train down to Plymouth. From there a taxi to Bigbury and then the sea tractor across to Burgh Island! Spent a lovely afternoon wiling away the time in the idyllic Pilchard Inn and having a general wander around the island and the hotel, before dressing for dinner and lapping up the 1930s charm of the hotel in the evening.
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Friday: [Friday 19th May]
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Ciao Bella: [Thursday 18th May 2017]
Went for lunch at Ciao Bella.
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Gev Chap: [Wednesday 17th May 2017]
Had a very pleasant evening with some of my new consignment of Gev Cham and the new issue of the Chap magazine.
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Wine Deliveries: [Tuesday 16th May 2017]
Received some wine deliveries today - a few bottles of Domaine Fourrier Gevrey Chambertin and some handy half bottles of Nyetimber.
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Monday: [Monday 15th May]
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Oliveto and The Angel: [Sunday 14th May 2017]
Spent a large chunk of the morning cleaning my coffee machine. Then Chie, Erika and I went for lunch at Oliveto followed by gelato at Olivogelo. After that I went for a birthday pint with Andrew at the Angel in Bermondsey.
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Zoo: [Saturday 13th May 2017]
Took Erika to the zoo, and were joined there by a friend.
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ESW and Sabrage: [Friday 12th May 2017]
Bought a few bottles of ESW from Theatre of Wine then dithered over which to sabrage this evening.
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Gerry the Giraffe Diary: [Thursday 11th May 2017]
Put the finishing touches to Erika's entry in the school "pet" - Gerry the Giraffe - which she had been looking after for the last week.
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Damp Proofing: [Wednesday 10th May 2017]
Had more builders in today, this time to install new damp proof courses in some interior walls.
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Tip and Tent: [Tuesday 9th May 2017]
Chie and I took some of the things we'd cleared out of the cellar at lunchtime. In the afternoon when Erika got back from school she played with a tent we'd whilst clearing out the cellar.
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Cellar Beams and Aoki-san: [Monday 8th May 2017]
Cellar beams were replaced today. Also in the evening saw Aoki-san who was working in London this week.
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Clearing out the Cellar: [Sunday 7th May 2017]
Cleared out the cellar in the morning ahead of some maintenance work next week. Chie went out in the afternoon, so Erika and I had lunch at the Pineapple and went to a succession of local playgrounds - 3 in fact. In the evening we lazily ate out again, at Pizza East.
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Gerry the Girafe goes to Guildford: [Saturday 6th May 2017]
Erika was looking after her class "pet" this weekend, and took it with her down to Guildford to visit her cousins, to coincide with Grandad Nick also being there.
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Goat, Sketch, Princi: [Friday 5th May 2017]
Out with the usual suspects. Veggie fish and chips at the Goat Tavern, followed by cocktails at Sketch, then post cocktail snacks at Princi.
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Chie's Birthday: [Thursday 4th May 2017]
Chie and I went for lunch at Olivo (surprisingly my first time to go to the elder sister of my favourite Oliveto) for Chie's birthday.
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Rhubarb: [Wednesday 3rd May 2017]
Chie got some rhubarb today.
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More Face Painting: [Tuesday 2nd May 2017]
Erika doing some more face painting.
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May Day: [Monday 1st May 2017]
Wanted to go for ramen for lunch but were largely thwarted by places being closed and rain. Ended up at Shoryu. Later on in the afternoon a friend of Erika's came round for a play date.
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Highgate Woods: [Sunday 30th April 2017]
Went to visit Highgate Woods.
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