1st October 2010

6.35am
Had a great day yesterday...although the CC had a terrible cold all day we still managed to finalise the arrangements for out Wedding party at Magnums on the 9th October and finished off the evening by visiting Angelo at Barolo Restaurant in Moordown. Angelo is one of my oldest friends and he hasn't changed much over the years...here he is with his wife Helga last night:-

Angelo and Helga at Barolo's

29th September - Wednesday

3 days of leave left and today I feeling suitably chilled. Parked at Lansdowne and going to wander down in to Bournemouth for a mooch around then back to Wareham to prepare for tonights quiz...

Stopped off in Bournemouth for a quick look (and I mean look!) at the shops. I did get a new Clinique bronzer from Beales though as I'm using much more now with the Vitiligo on my face.

Off to the Orange shop to dream over an iPhone 4 and then heading back home (I promise!)

Now caught in a huge rainstorm in Bournemouth. Taken shelter at the Coffee Republic cafe at the BIC. It's tamping down (very Welsh word "tamping").....Forced into having another coffee. Mmmmmmmmmmm!

Monday 26th September

Mmmmmmm moment!

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8.00am
Having coffee at Centro with Mr B before going off to my brother's house in Charminster. Jon is kindly helping mr move a piece of furniture from my old flat to Wareham this morning. Quite a few jobs to complete today. More later....

Monday 27th September

It's 6.00am and The Cockney Warbler has followed me down from Leicester and started shrilling over an hour ago now...

Anyway I'm up and wanted to post a few photo memories from the aforementioned trip to Leicester. We both had a lovely time and were looked after regally by my brother David and his best friend Jen... Highlight for me was the trip to the "Curve" Theatre to watch Matthew Bourne's Production of Swan Lake....

Tremendous Production....Bravo!!

A Masterpiece!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway apart from that David and Jen took us to their favourite restaurant and treated us to a fabulous dinner and this along with their scintillating company and conversation added to the wonderful weekend...a few photos below will help highlight the trip:-

The Curve Theatre

With the CC, David and Jen at the Champagne Bar

Sunday 26th September

Well what a week that was. I think I last chatted briefly on the day after my birthday. So much has happened since, it is difficult to know where to start....

I'm sitting in my brothers lounge at 6.15am in the morning. Woke up early to the sound of a new singing bird, local to Leicester and the surrounding district. The "Cockney Warbler" has a loud, piercing call which repeats every 5 seconds. Anyway it woke me early!!

I want to take you back to Friday this week as this was definitely the day the weekend started!! ...... I woke early (around 5.00am- which I did at least 4 times last week) to start to deliver all the cakes for the Fundraiser at the College.

I think I'd mentioned before that I had been given permission and the full backing of my principal to organise a coffee and cake morning at two main sites of our college.. Well after about 9 days of organising Friday 24th was the day...

At this point I will let the photos from one of the sites do the talking.... :-

One of my nieces prepared some wonderful cakes..

One of the venues at the Lansdowne Campus

Some of our happy customers with one of the Macmillan volunteers

Suffice to say the event was a resounding success and we raised an incredible £260.55p for Macmillan Cancer Support in under 2 hours!!

My relief and pleasure at this success was only outweighed by two things.... the fact that my brothers two sons volunteered to help out at the cafeteria I was hosting in Bournemouth (very proud of them!) and... there was just enough cakes left over to share with a local Hospice and the ward staff from Poole Hospital who looked after me so well last year...A GREAT DAY ALL AROUND!

The following morning (yesterday as I blog now) we were again up early to drive to Leicester, and a much anticipated and cherished visit to my brother, David.

22nd Sept 2010

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The day after my birthday... At the Lansdowne (an unplanned visit- but it's quite nice to sit in my usual place without the commitment to get back to work!) a bit of a tired feeling following a lovely birthday yesterday. The CC went all out to make it a special day and she succeeded!

I'm popping over to the Lansdowne Student cafeteria to give Clare (the catering manager) some promotional items for the charity coffee morning this coming Friday.. More about this later.....

Well birthday over and now full steam ahead for the organising of the fund-raising coffee morning for Macmillan Cancer Support this Friday (24th). An idea I had a few days ago was fully supported by the college (especially the Principal) and a small coffee and cakes couple of hours as turned into two simultaneous events taking place at our two main sites.... This Blog is going to be difficult to keep up with over the next few days so apologies now for the gap..............?

20th Sept 2010

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Been to the bank this morning to try and sort out some things. Now waiting for my mate Graham to have a cuppa with me at this watering hole in Poole.