International Scrapbooker Meeting

About 18 months ago I went on a cruise along the Danube and Rhine Rivers from Budapest to Amsterdam. It was a sensational trip and when we reached Amsterdam I met up with my long time Internet buddy, Antoinette, for the first time. We only had time for a quick cup of coffee so this [...]

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The Fat Duck

A Gastronomic Extravaganza We’re at the end of the UK leg of our trip. If you would like to check out what we’ve done so far you can view the photographic evidence on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150177400708963.302999.624863962 Well we wanted to go out with a bang so, after much difficulty we managed to book into The [...]

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Through the Eye of the Needle

After 28 long long travel hours we arrived at our guest house in London. Being 100 metres from Earls Court station it’s perfectly located. So we showered and changed and headed out. We ended up in Southwark and decided to go up on the London Eye. I wasn’t too sure about how it would work [...]

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London here we come

Seona and I are sitting in a ‘Harrods’ cafe at Kuala Lumpur airport waiting for our connecting flight to Amsterdam and then on to London. There’s nothing like being in a foreign airport to let you know you’re not in Kansas anymore Toto. We’re all excited that the trip is finally here, although after 8 [...]

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A Tale of Two Pantries

The picture below is my pantry. You may notice that it’s sitting in the back yard. An odd place for a pantry you might think. Let me tell you the story. I love this pantry. I made it 10 years ago when I bought an old trashed 1940s wardrobe (closet) from a second hand shop [...]

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