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The habit of having fish and chips on Fridays has been woven into me all my life so we decided to go to Farrington shopping centre or farm centre. We had 2 huge fish and chips portions together with one chip portion. The fish were delicious and not completely saturated with batter. In the restaurant was a sign which I found amusing, Illustrated. We then went into the farm shop to buy some milk...

Ref: link here Today I have just about caught up with my daily diary entries and my covid site entries. This morning I watched a remarkable film 1:22:27 about the French survivors of the 2004 Tsunami.  For many, the effect of escaping death while others lost their lives will leave an indelible impression on them for the rest of their lives. Some of these survivors decided to stay on and help...

Saturday - I returned on Thursday and this paragraph is written on Saturday 20th April. I find the first day back after a holiday, long or short, it's horrible because I don't know where I am. I feel I'm between two universes and that's on a good day. However today Saturday dawned bright and sunny so we are doing our usual boring household tasks such as cleaning, washing, tidying, doing the...

And so after and all too brief sojourn in London we return. I always leave home base much earlier than I need to so we left our place in Selsdon which is somewhat south of East Croydon over two hours before the train's scheduled departure. I take the view that if you leave earlier then you need to, if anything goes wrong along the way it normally rights itself after a period of time so there's...

Liberties Regent Street has a long tradition of supplying materials for dressmaking and clothes in general. Francoise had not visited it for over 25 years so we decided that now was the time. I saw a very nice gentleman's jacket for 850 pounds and a delightful tape measure for 15 pounds. They are used to dealing with the rich and famous. The decor and layout could be that of an Elizabethan...

Rail System 1965   One of the things I love about London is the ease of communication north south. Historically this was not always the case where trains traveled to and from London terminal stations such as Victoria, Waterloo, Kings Cross etc.  These days there is a train that goes from Bedford via St. Alban's through Central London to East Croydon and thence to Brighton. It does it far...