John - Archived Entries for 2022 / 9

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Recent Entries:: Champagne on the M25
Thursday
Sunset on the Heath
Rainbow
Apple
Badminton
Icknield Way Part 3
Autumn Equinox
Eve of the Autumn Equinox
Wednesday
Tuesday
State Funeral
Sunday
Walter on the Heath
Icknield Way
Belgravia
Crash
Tuesday
Monday
Sunday
Erika's Birthday
Heath
The Queen
Wednesday
Tuesday
Back to Normality
Girls Back From Japan
Tidying Up
Pizza and (Not) Wine on the Heath
Thursday

Champagne on the M25: [Friday 30th September 2022]
Took the afternoon off work to go for a strange walk, starting and ending at Uxbridge, and with the main goal being the junction between the M40 and the M25. I thought this would make for a fun and quirky walk (and as a by product a fun and quirky video) but it was mostly actually a bit grim.
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Thursday: [Thursday 29th September]
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Sunset on the Heath: [Wednesday 28th September 2022]
Quite a nice sunset on the heath this evening I thought.
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Rainbow: [Tuesday 27th September 2022]
Spotted a ranbow as I was walking to pick Erika up from her woodwork class.
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Apple: [Monday 26th September 2022]
Ate the first apple from our tree today. They're really small this year - I think because of the drought over the summer - but there's a good number of them and this one at least was quite tasty.
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Badminton: [Sunday 25th September 2022]
Spent a while playing badminton with the girls on a pedestrianised bit of street near home.
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Icknield Way Part 3: [Saturday 24th September 2022]
Third stretch of the Icknield Way today, from Letchworth Garden City (well actually Baldock) to Royston. Another YouTube video of course.
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Autumn Equinox: [Friday 23rd September 2022]
Having slept the night in a hedge, I woke up early to be at Avebury for sunrise on the morning of the Autumn Equinox. It was rather grey and cloudy so I couldn't really see anything of the sunrise, but I was happy to be there nonetheless.
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Eve of the Autumn Equinox: [Thursday 22nd September 2022]
Took another (half?) day off work so I could head to Avebury this afternoon. I'd decided I wanted to spent the night in the area for the autumn equinox. While I was there I did a tour of some of the local momuments like West Kennet Long Barrow and the Sanctuary
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Wednesday: [Wednesday 21st September 2022]
Still struggling to get back into a normal routine with work etc after last week's crash. Headed to the heath in the early evening and stayed a while to watch the sunset.
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Tuesday: [Tuesday 20th September]
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State Funeral: [Monday 19th September 2022]
Bank holiday for the Queen's State Funeral, so I was off work and Erika was off school. Didn't really do much, just watched some of the funeral on the TV, and otherwise had a quiet day at home.
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Sunday: [Sunday 18th September 2022]
Quiet day at home. Spent some time playing with Erika's tiny remote controlled car, and made a sort of obstacle course for it.
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Walter on the Heath: [Saturday 17th September 2022]
Met up with Walter again, and also mutual work friend Andrew, and had lunch on the heath plus a glass of wine.
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Icknield Way: [Friday 16th September 2022]
Once again I couldn't face working today, so took another day off and went for a walk in the countryside, this time doing another section of the Icknield Way, from Luton to Letchworth Garden City.
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Belgravia: [Thursday 15th September 2022]
Once again I just couldn't face working today. I was already scheduled for a dentist appointment down in Belgravia, after which I met my old work friend Walter (who was visiting London this week) for lunch at Oliveto. Then for the remainder of the afternoon I just stayed in Belgravia revisiting some old pubs.
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Crash: [Wednesday 14th September 2022]
I started work as usual this morning but after a couple of hours realised I was just staring at a screen and achieving nothing. I just couldn't bring myself to do any work - it all suddenly seemed like a pointless waste of time. So I decided to take the rest of the day off, and headed to East London to visit some old favourite pubs of mine.
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Tuesday: [Tuesday 13th September 2022]
Today was the anniversary of when Chie and I got engaged. Most of the photos today are trying to get a shot of the two of us so we could print it out on Erika's new sticker printer.
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Monday: [Monday 12th September]
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Sunday: [Sunday 11th September 2022]
Not many photos so I assume this was mostly a quiet day at home? One of Erika's presents was a tiny sticker printer and we tested that out this afternoon.
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Erika's Birthday: [Saturday 10th September 2022]
Erika seemed to want a low key birthday this year. She even went to Japanese school as usual in the morning, after getting up slightly earlier than normal to open presents. In the afternoon she had a friend over and they went to have their nails done.
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Heath: [Friday 9th September 2022]
Finished work a bit early after a probably not very productive day feeling a bit shellshocked by yesterday's sad news. Definitely felt a visit to the heath was in order, and went for a longer than usual wander around.
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The Queen: [Thursday 8th September 2022]
I was out for dinner this evening with some old work friends when I heard that the Queen had died. Very strange atmosphere on the way home.
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Wednesday: [Wednesday 7th September 2022]
Just one photo.
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Tuesday: [Tuesday 6th September 2022]
Slightly reluctantly opened the last of the 2005 Nuits St Georges from Gavignet, as Burgundy stocks were running rather low. Paired with Jagarico. It was very good.
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Back to Normality: [Monday 5th September 2022]
Erika was back at school today, and it was work for me as usual. So all pretty humdrum and back into the routine.
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Girls Back From Japan: [Sunday 4th September 2022]
I woke up early and drove to Heathrow to pick up the girls, who returned from Japan today. In the afternoon, in a bid to get Erika out of the flat to help with her jetlag, we went down to King's Cross to catch the tail end of the annual "Return to Hogwarts" Harry Potter event.
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Tidying Up: [Saturday 3rd September 2022]
Spent a large part of the day tidying up the flat in preparation for the girls returning from Japan. Just treated myself to lunch at the Pineapple before returning home to do more tidying and cleaning.
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Pizza and (Not) Wine on the Heath: [Friday 2nd September 2022]
I was craving pizza, so headed down to Rossopomodoro in Camden for dinner. I diverted by way of the heath on the way back (taking a likely inefficient route involving walking to Chalk Farm then getting a bus to Hampstead Heath overground station), thinking I might have some wine, but then remembered when I got there it had a synthetic closure which is a real pain to open with wine prongs. So I gave up and went home instead.
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Thursday: [Thursday 1st September 2022]

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