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Recent Entries:: City Pub Tour
Gymnastics Certificate
Summer Concert
Tuesday
Monday
Sunday
Sicilian Food and More Sabrage
Sabrage with a Glass
Thursday
Vegan Curried Goat
Avebury Summer Solstice
Viennetta
Father's Day
St Moritz
Turkish
Thursday
Pizza
Tuesday
Monday
Sunday
Chichester to Petersfield
New Tables at the Pineapple
Dentist and Oliveto
Wednesday
Tuesday
Back to London, via the Cotswolds and Wittenham Clumps
Sunday in the Borders
Saturday in the Borders
To The Tower
Ramen with Old Friends

City Pub Tour: [Friday 30th June 2023]
Took the afternoon off work to make a video of City of London pubs. Only took one photo.
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Gymnastics Certificate: [Thursday 29th June 2023]
Erika got a certificate this evening for completing the next stage of gymnastics lessons.
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Summer Concert: [Wednesday 28th June 2023]
Erika's school summer concert in the evening, where she sang a song with a friend.
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Tuesday: [Tuesday 27th June 2023]
Quick visit to the heath on the way to pick Erika up from her woodwork class.
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Monday: [Monday 26th June]
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Sunday: [Sunday 25th June 2023]
Chie was out for the afternoon. Erika and I had lunch at the Pineapple and then made mocktails back at home.
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Sicilian Food and More Sabrage: [Saturday 24th June 2023]
Sicilian food for lunch. More sabrage back at home later on. Also made a video about Neolithic booze.
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Sabrage with a Glass: [Friday 23rd June 2023]
I had seen videos of this but never managed it myself before now.
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Thursday: [Thursday 22nd June]
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Vegan Curried Goat: [Wednesday 21st June 2023]
I had booked the day off work, not knowing how much sleep I'd get at Avebury, so did some video editing in the mornng, then went out for lunch. Tried a new vegan restaurant in Camden where I had (vegan) curried goat (!).
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Avebury Summer Solstice: [Tuesday 20th June 2023]
Went to Avebury again for the summer solstice.
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Viennetta: [Monday 19th June 2023]
I thought it would be nostalgic and kitsch to have Viennetta. It was actually just really bad ice cream.
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Father's Day: [Sunday 18th June 2023]
As I'd grown up with parents who thought Mother's Day and Father's Day were just marketing gimmicks I've never expected Erika to observe it either, but regardless she gave me a rather sweet card, and also agreed to come for a walk on the heath with me later on. In-between we had Japanese / Korean food for lunch.
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St Moritz: [Saturday 17th June 2023]
Oddly I went to St Moritz, the Swiss restaurant in Soho, for lunch. It being summer it wasn't hard to get a table.
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Turkish: [Friday 16th June 2023]
For some reason (perhaps the hot weather?) both Chie and I wanted to have Middle Eastern food for dinner. Erika wasn't keen but begrudgingly agreed to come along to a Turkish restaurant near us. To be honest I found it overpriced and underwhelming and I wish we had listened to Erika's protestations.
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Thursday: [Thursday 15th June]
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Pizza: [Wednesday 14th June 2023]
Chie and Erika were out for dinner, so I went and got a pizza and went to the Pineapple for a bit.
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Tuesday: [Tuesday 13th June]
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Monday: [Monday 12th June]
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Sunday: [Sunday 11th June]
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Chichester to Petersfield: [Saturday 10th June 2023]
Went for a walk in the South Downs from Chichester to Petersfield, which went a bit awry towards the end. I couldn't find a good place to camp, decided to give up and go home, but that proved to be impossible because all the trains were cancelled. So I ended up having to sleep rough after all.
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New Tables at the Pineapple: [Friday 9th June 2023]
Chie and I went for lunch at the Pineapple, and managed to be the first people to sit at the new tables out the front.
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Dentist and Oliveto: [Thursday 8th June 2023]
Finally got round to going for a long overdue hygiene appointment at the dentist. To "celebrate" had lunch at Oliveto afterwards, and Chie was able to join me there.
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Wednesday: [Wednesday 7th June]
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Tuesday: [Tuesday 6th June]
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Back to London, via the Cotswolds and Wittenham Clumps: [Monday 5th June 2023]
Once again we broke up our journey back home, had afternoon tea (for lunch) at Burford in the Cotswolds, then the girls went to visit friends near Abingdon and I went for a walk to Wittenham Clumps.

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Sunday in the Borders: [Sunday 4th June 2023]
Headed down to Chepstow to see Louise, Bec, Dave and Jessica. Had a very pleasant picnic in the grounds of the castle. Later on back to Hay for one final night at the tower.
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Saturday in the Borders: [Saturday 3rd June 2023]
Spent the morning wandering around Hay on Wye, then drove down to meet Robin and Robert for a pub lunch, followed by a guided tour of nearby Tretower. Back to our lodgings in the evening for dinner and more tower antics.
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To The Tower: [Friday 2nd June 2023]
We had quite a pleasant journey to Herefordshire, with lots of stops along the way, including Oxford Services, the tearoom at Bringsty and Weobley.
We arrived at the tower towards the end of the afternoon and spent the remainder of the day exploring around there.
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Ramen with Old Friends: [Thursday 1st June 2023]
Erika was off school this week for half term. Today she and Chie went to meet some old friends Chie used to work with 20 years ago, and I joined them all for lunch.

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