BeenThere-DoneThat Blog

A blog about life and travel in Great Britain

Browsing Posts published in May, 2010

Ouch!

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I have just discovered that the international translator thingy (If I might use the technical term) was using about 50% of the disc space that the whole web site uses so it's had to go.  You may notice, or you may not, that it has gone from the top of side bar on the right. [...]

Compost and Concrete

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Today the weather is warm and sunny. 80F warm and it's only just past the middle of May but don't worry the weather is forecast to go downhill next week so we'll be back to normal English weather.    We've had this sunny spell for about four days now so that would have made a [...]

Taking the bull by the horns.

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Yesterday, Tuesday, we had to go to Rayleigh, Essex and, as it was a sunny day, decided to include a little sightseeing and the obvious place to start was Rayleigh itself. The town was nothing special but it does have one of these:     A rather nice brick built tower mill with an interesting [...]

Missed it again!

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Why is that so often having returned from a trip we find that we’ve missed seeing something we could have seen but didn’t because we didn’t know it was there. There was one of those in Eastbourne that we’ve marked down for next time. There was one in Southwark, London that we were very close [...]