twinkly trees
i got up at 6 this morning (which is 5 UK time) to go for a walk before breakfast. it was very dark but i did see this nice tree with church behind.
December 2004
black beach
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wooden games
poor man’s jenga was played at length on our recent holiday to the isle of wight.
kezia is particularly daring when she lunges for her piece. but she knows this and enjoys the danger !
To celebrate the successful removal of each piece she gave it a quick kiss. We thought it so funny we’ve incorporated it in to our house rules for future games
maxell – no longer breaking the sound barrier
i used to love that ‘maxell, break the sound barrier’ ad. the modern version doesn’t have the same ring to it does it ?
word 23 – protection: danger at sea
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glove
had it not been for the eurostar disaster i wouldn’t have seen this glove on the other side of Lille.
posh hotel
i’m staying in a right posh hotel in brussels whilst i’m at a conference. the whole idea of the place is to sell you more things whilst simultaneously providing every reason not to leave the hotel.
here are my very own slippers, dressing gown, iron and ironing board.
it’s also full of fantastic little things like this door chain thing which i spent ages whizzing back and forward.
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a belgian meal
i asked at reception if there were any good restaurant nearby the hotel i’m staying in. the receptionist said what sort, and i said “i dunno, mcdonalds or something”.
she looked me in the eyes and said accusingly “are you american ?”.
anyway, i ended up going to a nice restaurant as you can see from the food i got.
it seems it’s the custom in Belgian for late comers to restaurants to say hello to people who are already in the restaurant eating.
but it seems it’s NOT the custom to shout goodbye to people as they leave from your table.
look at this fantastic biscuit box and the lovely profitable-tolls.
eurostrar disaster
i’m in brussels for the next couple of days and i had an absolutely disaster of a journey. All went well until we got to Lille when they decided to terminate the train due to someone being splatted on the tracks ahead of us.
In the UK they would have called this a ‘fatality’. But, since we were in france, they called it a ‘suidide’.
anyway, they chucked us out and told us to go to a different train station, but didn’t tell us where it was. so hundreds of people were walking all over Lille looking very lost with big suitcases.
things went downhill from there, but i won’t bore you on how i had to sit on a train floor for an hour and a half on a squashy train.
but at least i got to see some new and interesting train stations en route.
gas problems
gas can be a problem for some people. it’s usually something to do with their diet.
if things get really bad, you know who to go to.
tubes as normal trains
they use old tube trains as their main trains on the isle of wight
the cod father. we’ll batter anything
after hair dressers’ shops, fish and chips shops have the best names.
teeny weeny ray
this little plastic chap was about 2cms long and was next to our car in a car park. very interesting.
dandy parking
it’s a parking meter with a nice pink scarf.
kezia with a christmas hat on
kezia is a very amusing small person. today she went off during lunch and returned a few moments later wearing this christmas hat which none of us knew we had !
she was very pleased with the reaction she got and wore it for the rest of the meal.
