| During August Carol, John, Gail and
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| Buckingham Palace | Hampton Court Palace | Kensington Palace | London By Night |
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| River Thames | St Giles Hotel | Tower of London | Windsor Castle |
Monday, September 11. 2017
London Palaces and Castles
Saturday, May 13. 2017
April 2017
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Friday, January 06. 2017
Déjà vu
| Déjà vu, from French, literally "already seen", is the phenomenon of having the strong sensation that an event or experience currently being experienced has already been experienced in the past. Déjà vu is a feeling of familiarity, and déjà vécu (the feeling of having "already lived through" something) is a feeling of recollection. | |
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During
May 2016
Carol, John, Gail and Steve spent a week on the Isle Of Wight stopping at
the
Langham Court Hotel
Shanklin. Gail and Steve had room 202, Carol and John had room 203. Both
couples had booked the holiday with
Travelstyle.
Both couples plus Pete and Karen decided to book a mystery tour
with
Harry Shaw Holidays
to see in the new year 2017. Not only did we all end up in the
Langham Court Hotel
but Gail and Steve were allocated room 202, Carol and John room 203!
We found this to be a great Hotel who went that extra mile and did lots of extras to make this a fantastic stay. The Manageress hosted a couple of quizzes. Pass the parcel, Provided a buffet To let in the New year. On new years day during the afternoon everyone was treated to a bowl of soup and several sandwiches, later tea/coffee and cakes. Everyone at the hotel was given a new years day card, every guest even had a surprise gift at the dinner table. Everyone had a great time. Live Entertainment was provided every night. |
| 02 | Amongst our Christmas presents this year (2016) Christopher bought us a "Raspberry Pi 3" pre-loaded with about 20,000 games. This little box connects to our 49" Television set, you then add a couple of game controllers wired or wireless and any of the popular controllers such as nintendo, snes, sega and so on. Then you play all of those favourite computer games from the past such as Space invaders, frogger, bomberman, donkey kong, super mario brothers, lemmings - you name it and it is more likely to be there than not! All of the games are identical in every way to the originals. |
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Meals a plenty! Every Thursday during December our group of 6 booked festive meals at various local pubs before going to the Thursday night quiz. Christmas dinner and also our Boxing day meal this year took place at "Farmer Johns." |
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In other news, Daniel and Faustine came over
from France for the Christmas period between 24-31 December 2016. Paul and Zena's house is nearing completion and so hope to be moving in soon. Georgia has finally taken her first steps. |
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Sunday, October 16. 2016
Jersey September 2016
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Sunday, September 04. 2016
August 2016
August 2016. Please click thumbnail to see the complete album.
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In addition to our visits to the above 3 locations during August 2016.
Between 27 July and 3 August Daniel and Faustine came over from France and
stopped at our house for the week.
Between 23 August and 7 September. Keiths
dogs "Bobby", "Daisy" and "Lady" came to stop whilst Keith and Alison went to
Cyprus on Holiday.
On 8 August Steve went with Paul to Star City to watch the
latest Star Trek film "Beyond"
on 27 August there was a family BBQ at Sam and
Petes House in Erdington to celebrate Sams Birthday.
Not only did Callum get
his "A Levels" but he also passed his driving test at the first attempt!
Thursday, July 14. 2016
May 2016 - Isle Of Wight
During May 2016 Carol, John Gail and Steve spent a
week on the Isle Of Wight. Please click the thumbnail to see the complete album
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Tuesday, January 26. 2016
Rhine Cruise 2001
During 2001 Gail, Carol, John, Pat, George and
myself went on a cruise down the River Rhine in Germany. At that time I had the
latest "State of the art" Analogue camcorder and took the following videos. In
those days computing was still in its infancy with restricted hard drive storage
space, YouTube videos were restricted to very short clips. Video editing
software was almost non existant. At that time I simply transferred the entire
contents of my camcorder tapes to one huge video file which for playback
purposes was obviously not very efficient making it almost impossible to locate
a particular piece of footage. Also I was unaware of the locations of many of
the clips - It was only whilst working on this project some 15 years after these
videos were taken, that I was able to identify the location of the Hotel in
Belgium (Video #3 below).
I have not attempted to improve the quality of these old clips but have simply split the large file up into several small sequences and then inserted an opening title.
I have not attempted to improve the quality of these old clips but have simply split the large file up into several small sequences and then inserted an opening title.
Wednesday, January 20. 2016
Happy New 2016
We celebrated the Christmas Period with Festive pub meals at
1. The
Whitehouse
2. The Boathouse.
Christmas Dinner was at the Toby Carvery,
Shenstone (Known locally as The Highwayman)
On Tuesday 22 December 2015
we attended an Aladdin Pantomime at the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre. Neil had
arranged the two front rows for members of the PPFC Community Centre, Gail and
myself sat at the very front.
New Year was celebrated in our traditional
manner of taking a mini holiday with other members of the PPFC Community Centre.
This year it was to Scarborough with a Harry Shaw coach arranged by Neil. During
this break we also made visits to Harrogate, Whitby, Bridlington and York.
I have made an alteration to the layout of my website. The Video albums have
now been merged with the photo albums. This should make items easier to find
plus the videos have now been cross-referenced much better than they were
previously
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| Harrogate | Whitby | Scarborough | York |
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