Since my last post on this list item back in September 2013 I've been to a few more places 40 miles from where I live.
The fifth place I visited was Weybridge in Surrey on 17th November 2013. Zack and I went to perform on David Durant's Under the Radar session at Brooklands Radio.
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| On our way to the interview |
We performed Pull The Trigger, Get Me Some Happy and Fragile Girl. You can hear the whole thing here.
In January 2014 I headed off to Yateley to record a song I wrote with Mark Holland. It was the first time I'd been to that neck of the woods.
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| I pulled over to take this photo |
It was at his parents place (from before they moved) which was a lovely house (his dad was making homemade bread so you could smell it throughout the house - yum). That was the first step to recording Blinded - the first of a bunch of songs we've already written together. I went to Yateley once more to finish off the song.
Here's Blinded in its full glory.
A year ago this week I trekked of to Bristol for the National Hospital Radio Awards. On the way I decided to stop at Maidenhead which was 40 miles into the journey.
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| Stop off on the way to Bristol |
It was a great weekend getting to know some of Radio Northwick Park's newer members and also getting to hang out with the Hospital Radio Chelmsford team (who are all very welcoming and friendly).
This January, my wonderful boyfriend, Matheus and I decided to go on a road trip. We were trying to figure out various places 40 miles from my flat. We found a site that could tell us the 40 mile radius from any postcode in the UK. However, I decided to stick to 40 miles in driving mileage and not "as the crow flies" for this trip. We decided to go in the direction of Essex and went off to Clavering. It's a very rural place and I also remembered Jamie Oliver's parents have a gastro pub there called The Cricketers.
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| Entering Clavering |
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| A Clavering monument |
We headed to The Cricketers to see if we could get a table but, as we suspected, they were fully booked (next time we'll book well in advance).
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| Jamie Oliver's folks' place |
The pub staff were extremely helpful and recommended somewhere else we could go to get some good food. So we jumped in the car and drove off in that direction.
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| Alternative village for lunch |
We found a lovely pub (quite difficult to park though). Luckily they had a table and we had a really good meal there.
Tried to find geocaches on the way back home but the GPS signal was so bad we gave up. A lovely day out with my man!
Just to give myself more options, I might try some places 40 miles from me "as the crow flies" to give me more scope at seeing some other great places. I think Bicester and Oxford fall in the 40 miles!
