I have a strong independent streak and will do any venture on my own if I can, but any alternative needs to be looked at quite carefully and comparing benefits can be quite tricky. For example if you're going to a new country and you know nothing of it, it might be preferable the first time around to be at least shown the basics and thus avoid waste of time and possibly waste of money through...
So we are off today Monday 17th March 2025 for a five-day break in the Lancashire area including visits to Manchester, Chester and Liverpool. We are traveling with 'Just Go Holidays'. We were based in Bolton at the Britannia Hotel. This time I'm not going to write so much by chronology but by themes and the theme for this first day is as indicated above. The traffic system is grossly overloaded...
Amazing how the mind works to bring us people we need to meet. On my social media site someone offered a self-drive petrol mower for £85. My current mower I have had for about six years now and I've abused it so much that it is finally complaining, spluttering, going at variable speeds and I suspect that if I take it back to my wonderful repair agents in Kilmersdon they will shake their heads...
The lunch date that never happened We were looking forward to meeting with the friend in Coleford at a community facility called The Hub where a group of good people produce lunch every Wednesday Thursday and Friday. You don't have to book up, you just turn up the meals are supposed to be very reasonably priced and I'm sure cooked with love. We arrived at the place at the agreed time of 12:15 to...
I pride myself on organising my life quite well and anything to do with travel it goes like clockwork but on this occasion everything that could go wrong did go wrong, I was looking forward to my Frome Christian men's group's curry evening. I set off on a moonlit evening to travel the ten miles or so. My dislike or driving at night increases because I find the halogen lights used by cars...
I so much did NOT look forward to this call Today I had to call Sky to remove an element from my package and also to order a new sky Q box because the Sky Plus box is now redundant. I hesitated for two weeks before calling because my antipathy to Sky as a system is so great I really had to fight to overcome it. Basically the website has been dumbed down so much that outside certain lowest common...
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