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Recent Entries:: New Year's Eve
Wine by the Thames
GevCham on the Heath
Monday
The Day After Boxing Day
Boxing Day
Christmas Day
Christmas Eve
Home Haircut and Hampstead Heath
Day After The Winter Solstice
Actually the Winter Solstice
Almost the Winter Solstice
Saturday
Day Off
Wine on the Heath
Temaki Sushi
Goodbye The Pineapple
Monday
Sunday
Curry on the Heath
Mist and Fire
Davenport on the Heath
Wednesday
Wedding Anniversary
Monday
Heath with Erika
Forty Hall
Christmas Tree
Rainy Wine on The Heath
Wednesday
East Meon on the Heath

New Year's Eve: [Thursday 31st December 2020]
Marking the end of 2020. Good riddance.
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Wine by the Thames: [Wednesday 30th December 2020]
Went down to an old favourite spot - the Angel in Bermondsey - to meet Andrew for a glass of wine by the Thames (another outing for Dermot Sugrue's Storrington Priory). The pub of course is closed, but the outdoor space next to it which would normally be its de facto beer garden is public land, so amenable to BYOB.
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GevCham on the Heath: [Tuesday 29th December 2020]
More wine on the heath - this time good old Rossignol Trapet Gevrey Chambertin.
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Monday: [Monday 28th December 2020]
Attempted to get some smokeless coals to light in the Fire Trough without any kindling. It wasn't very successful.
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The Day After Boxing Day: [Sunday 27th December 2020]
Whatever you call it. Did a bit of pruning of the grapevines in the back garden in the morning. Dragged the girls to Hampstead Heath for a walk in the afternoon, then they headed back home while I hung around a bit longer to meet Christian for a quick glass of wine by the barrow.
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Boxing Day: [Saturday 26th December 2020]
Not much to report. I went for a brief walk to Hampstead Heath. That's about it really.
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Christmas Day: [Friday 25th December 2020]
Christmas day at home, of course.
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Christmas Eve: [Thursday 24th December 2020]
Dragged the girls down to the Thames hoping for a festive stroll along the river, but it turned out to just be cold not much fun. So we cut our losses, headed home, and then surprisingly I managed to drag them out a second time for a walk to Hampstead Heath around sunset.
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Home Haircut and Hampstead Heath: [Wednesday 23rd December 2020]
The girls had another go at cutting my hair in the morning, then yet another walk to Hampstead Heath in the afternoon.
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Day After The Winter Solstice: [Tuesday 22nd December 2020]
Almost as though the winter solstice was turning into a three day event, today I went down to the Thames to meet Andrew again, and actually drink some of the mead I had got for the solstice itself, but hadn't fancied. I can't really reccommend it.
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Actually the Winter Solstice: [Monday 21st December 2020]
It was good in way that we'd also marked the winter solstice the day before, as the weather was much nicer then. Today it was more of a grey solitary trudge to be on the heath at dawn. Later on practiced setting up a tarp using taut line hitch knots in the garden.
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Almost the Winter Solstice: [Sunday 20th December 2020]
Another day where I did two trips to Hampstead Heath - once for sunrise, and then again later for sunset. Sort of a trial run for the winter solstice, and the weather was nicer for it today.
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Saturday: [Saturday 19th December 2020]
Two walks to Hampstead Heath today, one in the morning, one in the late afternoon / early evening. Lebanese food whilst playing Monopoly for dinner.
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Day Off: [Friday 18th December 2020]
The whole company had been given the day off today, so rarely I had a day off while Erika was still at school. Of course options for things to do are a bit limited at the moment given all the restrictions, so I just did what I always do, and headed to Hampsted Heath.
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Wine on the Heath: [Thursday 17th December 2020]
Took delivery of a Fire Trough in the daytime. Finished work for the year at lunchtime, and went and met one of the regulars from the Pineapple for some wine on the heath and a chinwag.
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Temaki Sushi: [Wednesday 16th December 2020]
Had temaki sushi for dinner (the one you assemble yourself) including umi budo (sea grapes).
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Goodbye The Pineapple: [Tuesday 15th December 2020]
One last mounrful lunchtime visit to the Pineapple on the eve of it being forced to close again. Later on an early evening walk to Hampstead Heath.
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Monday: [Monday 14th December]
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Sunday: [Sunday 13th December 2020]
East Meon and an awkwardly eaten since of cheddar and potato pie on the heath for lunch, then a fire in the back garden later one which I partly used to cook a Sunday roast of sorts.
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Curry on the Heath: [Saturday 12th December 2020]
I made some curry in my Zebra billy can and took it to the heath to eat for lunch.
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Mist and Fire: [Friday 11th December 2020]
Went for a misty walk on the heath around sunset, then later on in the evening went and sat in Jeremy's garden for a bonfire with some wine.
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Davenport on the Heath: [Thursday 10th December 2020]
Having put in long hours Monday to Wednesday at work to get something finished off, I rewarded myself today by finishing a a bit early, and doing the only thing I ever get to do these days in terms of recreation - having some wine on the heath.
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Wednesday: [Wednesday 9th December]
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Wedding Anniversary: [Tuesday 8th December 2020]
Mine and Chie's wedding anniversary. So we took a flask of tea for a late morning stroll to the heath - like an elderly couple - followed by lunch outside the Pineapple.
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Monday: [Monday 7th December]
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Heath with Erika: [Sunday 6th December 2020]
Managed to persuade Erika to come to the heath with me with the promise of an ice cream. So we sat together for a while at my favourite spot, the barrow, having ice cream / lollies (despite near freezing temperatures) followed by some more Nuit St Georges. Lovely.
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Forty Hall: [Saturday 5th December 2020]
Drove to Forty Hall in Enfield in the morning to buy a case of their newly released 2018 vintage, and then later on took a bottle to the heath to try. Unfortunately it was faulty though! So later on instead tried an excellent 2005 Nuit St Georges I'd recently ordered from Fingal Rock in Monmouth.
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Christmas Tree: [Friday 4th December 2020]
Put up our christmas tree this afternoon/evening.
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Rainy Wine on The Heath: [Thursday 3rd December 2020]
Another trip to the heath with some wine, this time the first of a case of Rossignol Trapet's 2014 Gevrey Chambertin.
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Wednesday: [Wednesday 2nd December]
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East Meon on the Heath: [Tuesday 1st December 2020]
Clocked off from work a bit early (having worked late the previous evening) to try the newly released 2015 vintage of East Meon Berrygarden around sunset. It was very nice.
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