Going back through photos recently, I realised I had missed out a couple of places before the last one in the last blog about this particular subject (with me so far?).
So, in the last blog about this (part 2) the last place I went to was with my boyfriend to Clavering in Essex, however, just over a week before this we had come back early from The Netherlands to see my brother in a pantomime in Clacton on Sea (2nd January 2015). It was also M's first panto - lucky him!
We went with my folks, Grandma, Carly, Daniel and Lexie and my cousin, Steven. Paul was playing Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk and it was a very modern adaptation.
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| WELCOME! |
It was so heartwarming watching Lexie laugh the whole way through and I seem to remember at one point calling out for Uncle Paul.
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| What a cow! Obviously the animal on the far left - not Jack's "Mum" |
Valentine's weekend in 2015, Matheus took me to Tortworth Court - I say "took", I drove! The hotel was in the Cotswolds so, as I was driving, I suggested we stop off for lunch 40 miles from home. We stopped off in Wokingham at a pub for lunch.
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| The Three Frogs in Wokingham |
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| Tortworth Court Hotel |
On 24th April I went down to Sandhurst to Mark Holland's parents' new place to record in his studio. We recorded another song in the studio.
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| I love what Sandhurst is proud of |
I'm pretty sure it was "Under My Skin" that we recorded. Here's the final version of the track.
In May this year, Matheus went away for a stag weekend so I suggested to my bestie, Ruth, that we have an impromptu day out and that, perhaps, it should be somewhere 40 miles from us. Looking on a map and speaking about it the night before we decided to head to Marlow. Ruth had been before and said it was nice. So, we jumped in the car in the morning and headed out to Marlow.
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| A lovely little bridge welcoming us to Marlow |
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| Poor man's Tower Bridge |
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| Welcome! Bridged with Budapest? I didn't bring my passport |
We parked on the main road and had a wander about the town, got a Starbucks and continued to take in the little town. We headed back to the car and we parked in the hotel that was very near the entry bridge - the Compleat Angler. We decided to have lunch there but we stumbled upon a wedding fayre. For a giggle, we decided to have a nose around the fayre and I ended up with a goody bag of booklets and leaflets. We sat by the River Thames and had a lovely lunch and chat.
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| Lovely view of Marlow Bridge across the River Thames |
On the way back to the car I was drawn to something near the entry of the car park - the Chef's Herb Garden.
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| Amazing smells emanated from here |
Number 13 out of 40 places 40 miles from where I live - we were invited to the wedding of our friends Tim and Katie which was in Surrey on 23rd July (last week). We decided to drive down and instead of taking one hour, it took two. We were not pleased with the M25 traffic to say the least but luckily we were only five minutes late for the service. Later in the evening we went to the reception in Little Bookham to a farm which they had decorated beautifully. It was a lovely place. It was wonderful to see our friends celebrating and being so happy.
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| As we were leaving to go home! |
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| A photo of the gorgeous happy couple! |
I offered to give our friends Daryl and Lar a lift back to Borehamwood so they could get a southbound train to West Hampstead and walk home from there. I got them to Elstree & Borehamwood station with two minutes to spare but Thameslink let the train leave early so they missed the train and had to Uber home - regardless - it was a hell of a lot cheaper than getting a cab from another friend's place in South London!
27 more places to go!
