tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16031909317509877292024-03-06T04:22:47.552+00:00BlogBS5This is BS5, an overlooked but smart little part of Bristol!BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.comBlogger1324125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-68410888536079411872023-10-21T11:51:00.000+01:002023-10-21T11:51:35.442+01:00Xbox update! <p> I hadn’t signed into my Xbox account for about six years and my previous Xbox had a new owner a year ago , a Ukrainian lad of about ten. He’s endlessly happy with it.</p><p>I renewed my Xboxing this month on account of the coming together of Amazon prime day and a 2023 tax rebate. Woohoo! Here’s the install #xbox #install #timelapse</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: #b2b2b2;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzYCoQsGMRRl6ln9niabkLo97bmIFcJaKvcaEKKau1VbG7dZSYXWBPmUDcOshXCwIgiIejkg0KU23RzfWyNMg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-37001599507563366282023-09-21T19:44:00.002+01:002023-09-21T19:44:50.479+01:00I haven't been here in a while..<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimpPMf3QlmlZUa0XxAEk860ON8h6z9CF9l4Q8YwKWL4iZziRS_b_PBEs5oF2mZ8MNzmEz-g-sSfTVVnMUgj9pjZLunB-f1BXcd9QwpiSXr1ZFd0hQbGK3vXzbKR1QV577T8eg6v93pNb2a6zXU0OcO5aMhSEfapdREjwJ8S5uswC_mdDEiaKSQbqhf9wY2/s3088/2023-07-14_18-33-32_104.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2316" data-original-width="3088" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimpPMf3QlmlZUa0XxAEk860ON8h6z9CF9l4Q8YwKWL4iZziRS_b_PBEs5oF2mZ8MNzmEz-g-sSfTVVnMUgj9pjZLunB-f1BXcd9QwpiSXr1ZFd0hQbGK3vXzbKR1QV577T8eg6v93pNb2a6zXU0OcO5aMhSEfapdREjwJ8S5uswC_mdDEiaKSQbqhf9wY2/s320/2023-07-14_18-33-32_104.heic" width="320" /></a></div><br /> Rather a long time since I posted - not since I was last (and for the only time) in New York, it would seem. Here is a toe just dipped back into Blogging. This is from July this year, about five years since my last post, and at the Cinema in Bath where we had a spot of dinner before the movie.<p></p>BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-59330476114276041972018-10-08T17:03:00.001+01:002018-10-08T17:27:55.364+01:00New York Stories: Tourists and Towers.We had quite a list for New York, organised into days that made sense for midtown, uptown, downtown and the 'Fidi' ; this is a sense of some of those days, but these posts will not be in order (obviously - this is a random observations blog, after all).
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After a long sleep and 24 hours in NYC, we started to feel a sense of place and location and struck out to see things. Our first biggy was the Empire State building, so it was along West 49th, right onto Fifth Avenue and then on we went until we saw the biggest, iconic tower we could find, and there we were! Jemma has been before and said the queuing was outrageous, so we were on the door for half past eight and it paid off, strolling straight through with our pre-purchased New York pass. The flip side of the early start was that the mist had not quite cleared, but the views were still grand.
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We took a lot of steps after that to a location that had been on my list for a couple of decades: the Flatiron! Less attractive to Jemma but a beacon for me was our follow up to this, Forbidden Planet on Broadway, plus a constant smattering of photo opportunities for trucks, fire engines, bridges, buildings and geeky stuff.
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Day 1in the city was a 12 mile walking tour de force of New York at full charge with the very long day ending on a lark about in Times Square. Fantastic!<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-4407745273774136872018-10-05T07:06:00.003+01:002018-10-05T07:06:58.227+01:00New York Stories: written by PennIn our middle weekend at New York we ventured on the train to Washington and Virginia! We had booked seats sone months ahead and took our trip to see Anthony and Heather and their Bassador dog Lionel (he is the same make and model as Boris!)<br />
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On a Friday morning I hopped out early to buy sandwiches at a long-line New York deli and later we took our stuff, checked the map and walked West 49th and 7th to Penn Station. The experience was much more like an airport visit than a railways station, and as much of a fan as I am of a UK train station, this one was just altogether less dreary. Fun to ride the Amtrak with its ample leg room, uniformed Train Clerk and a purposeful, confident hoof through Philadelphia, Baltimore and many new locations.<br />
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BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-56826351019471560212018-10-03T20:43:00.002+01:002018-10-03T20:43:35.787+01:00New York Stories: on Mulberry Street with St Pat'.On another day in New York, and a few days after it all being 100 miles an hour, we ventured for a tour of 'little St Pat's', not knowing that there was a little and a big. This was a guided tour of St Patrick's Cathedral, the seat of the Pope when he is in town, and the seat of the first Bishops of New York. It is a small and fine building located in Little Italy. I liked Little Italy - it was so very like Easton in BS5, a place of immigration, hard work, strife and growth, that now sits well and flourished with a past.<br />
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We were early for our tour so we explored off plan and without an agenda (which delighted me!) A cake shop, a Saint's feast day, and a mix of languages, foods, welcomes and people. We also walked up and down Mulberry Street, a rather fine check to some stylish New York movies.<br />
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'NOLITA', north of Little Italy was once the worst place to be in NYC, but now town houses and brownstones are $8m a pop...<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-56520994209664069452018-10-03T20:24:00.002+01:002018-10-03T20:24:25.868+01:00New York Stories: Grand CentralWe filled each day plentifully in New York, but rather than a journal, here is the first of some posts, written after the fact, to detail things that occurred.<br />
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I know of Grand Central from The Untouchables, from Apple TV adverts about their store, and from reading about Vanderbilt and American expansion.<br />
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We visited together by cab and had a tourist view, but a couple of days later, I made the effort to wake at 05.00 and see the commute from a quiet 06.00. It was worth it. The unfolding arrival of a city going to work against the political backdrop of a Supreme Court nomination and Donald Trump in town for a session of the United Nations.<br />
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What a great space that slowed time and lit it very well.<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-39578019829003805062018-09-26T02:34:00.001+01:002018-09-26T02:34:25.217+01:00Meeting an Ex in New York.<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jsYuHaDlLI4/W6riIw8DiKI/AAAAAAAAGXw/cIN_Vpwr5aMO8kKJlqS1eVxSMvxiSZxKgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/image1-765262.jpeg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jsYuHaDlLI4/W6riIw8DiKI/AAAAAAAAGXw/cIN_Vpwr5aMO8kKJlqS1eVxSMvxiSZxKgCK4BGAYYCw/s320/image1-765262.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6605340443695876258" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3-MNmMsgV2I/W6riJwM69KI/AAAAAAAAGX4/56i0_9Nqkg87xZztUC8Bp-FyzR-9LmE3ACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/image2-769080.jpeg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3-MNmMsgV2I/W6riJwM69KI/AAAAAAAAGX4/56i0_9Nqkg87xZztUC8Bp-FyzR-9LmE3ACK4BGAYYCw/s320/image2-769080.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6605340460678050978" /></a></p>Tonight I took a walk along West 49th and Broadway, and up to Columbus Circle , New York , New York .
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<br>This was to meet Karen, the very inspiration for starting BlogBS5 in 2007.
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<br>A title I never thought this Blog would see, but it is one I am very happily posting. Karen and I saw each other briefly for a month or two prior to starting these posts: we enjoyed trust and gaiety and delight, and they were happy Bristol days.
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<br>K now lives in New York with her husband and son and she has been in the city for eight years; we reminisced about Bristol - she was BS4 while I was BS5. It was fun to revisit a moment of being thirty-something a decade ago.
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<br>Happy days indeed.
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<br>Trust and delight on Columbus Circle.BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-57343986432384079742018-09-17T20:21:00.001+01:002018-09-30T23:09:06.627+01:00New York stories: getting there.<div style="color: #454545; font-family: ".sf ui display"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";">This has been a long day of many miles and much anticipation and excitement.</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";">About seven years ago, a New York trip was on the cards for my fortieth, considered a year out from that occasion.</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";"> </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";">I am eternally glad I did not go then, but I am pleased I am doing so now, at 46, and writing this first account of it whilst coming into JFK (we are about an hour out, at 36,000 feet and somewhere over Caraquet, Canada).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";">We started our day in Bath (4983 km away, says the map) and the different modes of travel have been taxi, train, coach transfer, walk, walk, walk, lift, escalator, automated train, mobile steps, 747, upgrades! Yes indeed, an hour in, we were invited to fully flat recline seats and all the delight of Business Class on British Airways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";">New York is an hour ahead as I write , although five hours behind on our internal clock, so a long day indeed. A cab ride beckons from JFK to West 49th St and our apartments, and then the effort to go to bed after another hour so that we fold into local time accordingly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";">I have to say it is a bit swanky in Business class, with tea in a china mug; scones, cream and jam; and more leg room than a man of six feet four could possibly need. </span></div>
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BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-21818241496349636032018-08-24T23:08:00.001+01:002018-08-24T23:08:46.434+01:00Chairs moi.A happy and silent time just setting these up.<br />
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I like sitting at this table on my own.<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-49935613298735478132018-08-23T20:14:00.000+01:002018-08-23T20:41:19.030+01:00A man with a (G) Plan.This evening I purchased six dining room chairs, a task I have been mulling for about a year.<br />
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The current table and chairs are thirty five years (and three months) old. I know this because it was 1983 when we welcomed them into the house I grew up in. When my mum and dad replaced them as they moved house, they came to me as I was about thirty two and had purchased my own house here in BS5. The table is bullet proof but the chairs have seen their years, mainly owing to Wavey leaning back on them ALL THE TIME!<br />
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So now I have six G Plan dining room chairs that are, in fact, a decade older than the ones I am replacing. They are green, they are elegant and they suited me a treat. They also came from a pal on my road who recently moved house but buys and sells chairs and tables as a comfortable side hobby.<br />
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I had to google G Plan after the purchase - it made no real impact on my decision to go for it. High Wycombe firm , started in 1898 and going strong ever since, commanding quite the resale value for 60s and 70s models.<br />
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I do like my new chairs.<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-68126061538615757452018-08-05T07:35:00.001+01:002018-08-05T23:06:01.048+01:00A fine Easton SaturdayThis weekend was a weekend at home. It was very neighbourly indeed with chats (and beer) on the wall with neighbours from five houses across the day. I helped a good neighbour Anne move out of No.100 to a flat just around the corner. I also threw some paint on my own walls and cleaned the windows a treat! A very long day indeed with tasks from 05.30, through to a deserved pint about fifteen hours later. I do love BS5, Easton and Barton Hill.<br />
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Sunday (today) is second-coat Sunday for the 'Manhattan Grey' that is going on the walls, followed by a fine dinner of a pork biryani which I will make a bit later!<br />
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BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-55069830093304179952018-07-17T20:41:00.000+01:002018-08-05T09:14:19.698+01:00Nous sommes en vacances.At the start of the month we packed the car for France.<br />
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Boris dog has his passport and he came too, with a scan, a check-in and a visual nod at the ferry! We drove a couple of hundred miles inland from Caen and ended up at a stupendous Chateau in Troo, just a touch south west of Le Mans. 33 degrees each day and gentle exploration of nearby villages, markets, streets, shops and the obligatory boulanger!<br />
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Cheese, wine, chatter, patisserie and gentle company as four hounds and 12 people circulated through the house....along with Eros, the fantastic village weimaraner. We took turns to cook each night and ate well and memorably. We were a lovely mixed bunch and our trip was based on the Le Mans Classic meeting, detailed in the previous post. Impossible French style.<br />
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Fine driving, geeky MPG triumphs, taking lovely wine home, and a fine resting week from work. I had a terrific two hours of quiet, from one until three in the morning on our first day, just contemplating being while everyone else was asleep. I indulged in wine, cheese, ham and contemplation. 'Twas ideal .<br />
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Big tick for France....New York beckons next.<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-2323842320571569272018-07-15T20:15:00.000+01:002018-07-15T20:15:00.327+01:0024 hours at Le Mans This impossibly titled post covers an unexpected and fantastic day and a half at Le Mans, where a pal of mine was racing a 1960s Marcos car at the Le Mans Classic. It was a Marcos his father built and raced for the 24 hours in 1965, and it still looked fast 53 years later. I took two trips to the circuit and had an access all areas pass. The circuit was full of impossibly stylish French gentlemen-racers who most likely had a vinyard to go with their Ferrari, Porsche or GT40.<br />
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My day visit was car prep’ and I actually helped in a very minor way (helping Chris adjust the anchoring for his seatbelt, and holding the bonnet for a fibreglass patch). The night trip was a racing visit, with three races between midnight and three. The noise was fantastic, the atmosphere electric and the speed of the Jaguar D Types thrilling! A faboulous, spawny and surreal day, for which I am super grateful!<br />
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BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-24956956642918729292018-05-09T07:18:00.001+01:002018-05-09T07:18:40.628+01:00News about shoes.This week my repaired shoes came back after a good few days away. I am a chap and therefore my shoe excitement is modest and my variety goes as far as black or brown. However, these are epic and well worth the price of repair. I am heavy on shoes and walk a good deal for work, so let's see how they go.<br />
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They are Clarke approved too!<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-42827768983011456892018-05-02T06:48:00.002+01:002018-05-02T06:48:39.068+01:00Bas-mighty!Last night, 606 days after purchasing it, my fine 10kg bag of rice from <a href="http://www.sweetmart.co.uk/">The Sweetmart </a>came to an end. Endless curries and Asian dishes were graced by its mightiness and it was rather a lark to investigate and purchase it back in September 2016.<br />
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The final grains went to a large rice-prep' Tuesday ready for a few portions of egg fried rice later in the week.<br />
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Mighty stuff indeed and a giant cost of 1.65p a day for the duration!<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-37991792605891597642017-01-13T07:12:00.000+00:002017-01-13T07:12:14.171+00:00Toby dog - a fine hooligan hound.A sad first post of 2017 to remember Toby, my brother's fine hound. Toby dog was a chocolate brown labrador, never inclined to the obeying rules as a general principle. He was fond of shoes and I don't think he ever chewed a whole pair, just one shoe, left or right of any pair he might have encountered. He was also a bit trigger-happy on trying to eat working hosepipes, lawnmowers, vacuum cleaners, car washers and laundry baskets. He was shiny and healthy-looking right from day 1, with a wet, cold nose , a taste for mahoosive sticks and an unending inclination to fool about (and snooze). Greg had Toby for about a year and then Quaddy came along, adopted after his owner, who shared the same walking routes, passed away. Between them, Toby and Quaddy made a happy pair and a happy decade. Poor old Quaddy dog will be forlorn and sad this week as his brother stops being there.<br />
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Here is Toby from happy, active days with Greg.<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-8115650966843892422016-11-30T21:51:00.000+00:002016-11-30T21:51:06.093+00:00Hola!For the adventurous weekend just past, Jemma and I spent a few days in Malaga, Spain. We rose at an unGodly 03.00 on Friday in order to make a flight out of Bristol Airport. Jemma could not face breakfast but a 3am omelette seemed a reasonable proposition to me so I made one before we left the house (via a taxi driven by an Egyptian chatty man).<br />
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This same weekend last year we had a few days in Berlin looking all around there together and seeing Martin Luther's Cathedral. Malaga was as explorative but this time in the same city as my brother, so the pace was a little gentler. Unfortunately it was also Malaga's rainiest weekend in four years. It was not cold but it was certainly wet! In no particular order we took in the massive ferris wheel overlooking the port and the city; the Thyssen museum; the Picasso Museum; The Alcazaba; the covered market; the cathedral and the old city with many a winding street and secret bar.<br />
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We ate tapas, fish, tapas again and a moderate few beers and wines. No churros at all! The first Sunday of advent fell across the weekend just as it did in Berlin, but Malaga was much more demonstrative about it than Lutheran Germany a year ago.<br />
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A fabulous rainy-weekend and we are both keen to return when it is a little more in character and continuously scorchio!<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-86277796368858860152016-11-22T06:53:00.000+00:002016-11-22T06:53:03.371+00:00Taking stepsOne of my very favourite days in knowing Hazza was when he and I larked about on holiday at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarr_Steps">Tar Steps.</a> We experimented wading in just beyond the cover point of our wellies (being boys and all that) and we fished for sticklebacks, skimmed stones and raced pooh sticks. We made sure we became wet and cold and unsupervised! We thought about trying to go under the bridge but even our common sense ruled that part out. We sat on the steps, swinging our wellie booted feet in carefree delight. My feet skimmed the water and Harry's were miles away.<br />
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For a year or two, I thought of Tar Steps frequently, as a fabulous structure full of happy days as it had quietly sat there for centuries awaiting visitors just like the two of us.<br />
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This morning, five years and about half a foot of growing later (for Hazza), I was sad to hear that Tar Steps have been partially washed away. Given that many of the slabs were estimated to be around 70 tons, that really is a hefty day of rain, courtesy of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/20/storm-angus-brings-80mph-winds-and-flooding-to-the-uk/">Storm Angus</a>!<br />
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Here is the bridge in a panoramic shot I took on that August day in 2011. Young Harry is contemplating the day, armed with a useful fishing net we had purchased at the top of the hill that morning.<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-78464350052761489842016-11-16T18:16:00.001+00:002016-11-16T20:37:48.422+00:00Podcast-Spodcast!Just recently I have hurtled into the 21st C and embraced the Podcast. What a terrific find!<br />
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People all across the planet podcast about subjects you might like or subjects you maybe never imagine - and about subjects even I find too niche, so downloading something top to listen to is never difficult. It really is easy through ITunes, and as you may well know, iTunes is about as intuitive and stable as a bomb factory on a volcano.<br />
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Anyhow, all I need to do is add a podcast to my preference feed and every time a new episode is available, I receive a little nudge to my phone, Mac or Ipad. This has been terrific in the run up to the US Election and once a day Monday to Friday I receive an hour of entertaining chat from uber cool Anderson Cooper. Sometimes it is interesting and sometimes it is less so but then I can just skip or delete. Each day as I head to work it just beams into my phone and pops up for my free listening pleasure. It's a winner.<br />
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My choices thus far are pretty political and biographical but surely woodworking, machinery, sci-fi and Star Trek will follow right along. Thus far I have signed up for <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/shows/ac-360">Anderson Cooper 360</a>, a daily US magazine summary of all things political, and in the last few days, <a href="http://politics.uchicago.edu/pages/axefiles">The Axe Files</a> where David Axlerod has an hour one-on-one with interesting people such as Samantha Power - a big blog subject back in the early days of Blog BS5. I love it .<br />
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I have had Iphones for about 7 years and have used my headphones on a regualr basis just in these last 8 weeks. Welcome to the century.<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-35511705465460259912016-11-13T21:15:00.001+00:002016-11-13T21:19:30.885+00:00Rust Belt Blues (go Red) <div style="color: #454545; font-family: ".sf ui display"; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";">Weeks back I booked the day off work for the US Election results, Tuesday into Wednesday, November 2016 . </span><span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";">When Obama came in for his first term, I had followed it intensely, watching until about 03.00, when of course the critical call came about about 04.15 as I slept. When he ran for his second term I had booked the day off, but work asked me to waive it, which I foolishly did. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";">For this one, unencumbered in so many ways in 2016, I came home from work, watched until about midnight and then woke again at 03.45. Then I sat glued until about 10.00 as the rust belt fell to Trump and the electoral college soundly eased Hillary out of contention and a future - the dynasty thoroughly rejected. I'm no Trump advocate but Hillary was, for me, the complete wrong choice for the Democrats - an insincere, out of touch sort, albeit experienced for the office but conceited and mercurial as she thought she was on her way to it.</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";">The tumultuous election was enjoyable to watch. A quick day back in the saddle at work and then Friday off as Walshy and Mike blew through on their way to Somerset. Four of us went out for ales and the carnage was just about manageable.</span><span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: ".sfuidisplay"; font-size: large;">A fine week indeed of friends, foolishness and, just as an aside, the decommissioning of a post 1945 US global consensus? Drama! </span><br />
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BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-17015873829193205802016-10-17T21:47:00.000+01:002016-10-17T21:47:15.510+01:00London Larks!This weekend Jemma and I were kindly gifted the use of a fabulous London flat in <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/search/greycoat+street+sw1/@51.4962925,-0.136808,17z/data=!3m1!4b1">Greycoat Street</a>, Westminster, SW1. The street is very central indeed but also surprisingly quiet. We made the absolute most of our proximity to so much interest and exploration and notched up 16 miles on foot across Saturday and Sunday! Here is a brief recap of our adventures.<br />
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Saturday - all the way up The Shard, which was the one firm plan of the weekend, and the lark around which we based the whole adventure. <a href="http://www.the-shard.com/viewing-gallery/">The Shard</a> was spectacular and the lift hoofed up to floor 68 in two spurts - I did the same at <a href="http://www.the-shard.com/viewing-gallery/">The Jin Mao</a> in Shanghai in 2001 and this was just as quick.<br />
After The Shard, it was over to The O2 ad a hop across the Thames via <a href="http://www.theo2.co.uk/visit-us/getting-here/emirates-air-line">The Emirates Airline</a> - slower, lower but still massively spoddy. From there we took the DLR to Bank and then a long, idle walk along the South Bank, back to Westminster Bridge and a big old circuit back to Greycoat Street. Between the bridge and Westminster Abbey we looked in on WSC too.<br />
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Saturday night saw my first experience of <a href="http://www.matsuri-restaurant.com/gallery/index.html">Teppen Yaki at Matsuri, St James </a>- a first for me and a spectacle of theatre, sharp knives, hot grills , fast ingredients and lobster & steak! We were in bed by ten pm with 11 miles covered on foot.<br />
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Sunday was a little more touristy; Buckingham Palace, Oxford St and John Lewis ahead of a train out of Paddington - a delightful weekend in delightful company with a ton of fun things achieved. I am grateful.<br />
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<br />BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-50641432522843498742016-09-21T17:24:00.006+01:002016-09-21T17:24:56.694+01:00Gathering wood for the woodburnerToday after some admin' tasks, breakfast and house tidying, I ventured to the <a href="http://www.bwrp.org.uk/">Bristol Wood Recycling Project</a>, a venue that is always good for a bit of a poke about. Everyone there is friendly and positive and it is also overlooked by platform 15 of Bristol Temple Meads , where the 125s often leave for London Paddington, so it's a double winner every visit.<br />
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With a solstice tomorrow (at 14.21 GMT), thoughts as well as evenings are becoming just that little bit crisper and I am starting to slowly take from the woodpile that has sat minding its own business all across spring and summer. To eke that fuel out, I thought I would visit BWRP and take advantage of the free wood pile. You can go along and dismantle pallets and some decently hefty offcuts for yourself and they politely ask you to consider making a donation or volunteering some time - it is no more obligatory than that. I thought an hour spent at lunchtime would be fun, to see what I could gather as kindling and top-up wood for the deployment of my own labour and a donation. The selection was great with some serious woodburner potential!<br />
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A burn movie to follow but easily a week's evenings of heat for my lunchtime labour.<br />
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BS5 Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736680428036053669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1603190931750987729.post-54308103621216314802016-09-20T11:16:00.001+01:002016-09-20T11:16:11.933+01:00Isaiah 2:4 - on a Thursday!Last week I had a very grand day indeed. It took place on a weekday when I had the opportunity to visit Goodrich and stay with mum and dad. Boris dog was along too, as his mummy was in London for the day - too long to be left on his own. I was already pencilled in for sitting duties but in a magic coming together, I combined my hound duties with this:<br />
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Hosted by a farm in Goodrich, this was the epic and exciting 2016 ploughing match of the <a href="http://www.llanwarneagriculturalsociety.co.uk/">Llanwarne Agricultural Improvement Society</a> and their Ploughing Society! It was on a Thursday in mid September and the day totally lucked out to be more like July. Entry was £4 and worth every penny.<br />
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I loved it!<br />
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I thought I knew what the match would entail but there was so much more than I had anticipated.<br />
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The programme was full of interesting detail about all the different ploughing styles to be judged. At the most basic, each ploughman (or woman) has five hours to plough the allotted strip as slowly or as quickly as desired. No help is allowed beyond setting out the three copping sticks. The results are judged on neatness and agricultural merit. There were horse-drawn classes and classes for tractors pre-1974 and pre-1959.<br />
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Attendees came from all over the UK - it's a really tight little scene and everyone knows everyone else. I watched the current UK champion and a chap who had been champion a hatful of times. Horses, ploughs, tractors old and new, harvesters, threshers, old tools and all manner of interesting stuff and people. A very fine Summer day, and I found out all about Oat Seed Furrows which are very specific indeed.<br />
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<span class="s1">This weekend was <a href="http://www.busfest.org/busfest/">Busfest 2016</a>, an event dedicated to all things VW. Now, this is not normally my scene, although in fairness it is by no means at all far from it! I attended with Jemma and we went along because the event was at The Three Counties Showground, 35 minutes from Ma and Pa and the scene of previous contented attendances. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">It was worth our while going because friends of Jemma’s were there all weekend and they came about 500 miles from way north of Aberdeen. Thus it was local enough for us to go that short Herefordshire hop and meet up! </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Jemma’s friends Sonia and Mick came along in Brian, the red chap pictured here and named after (for his slight ponderousness) Brian the Snail of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Roundabout">Magic Roundabout </a>fame. They very much <i>are</i> into the scene…Brian is an ex-command vehicle who worked as a mobile command-scene unit in Germany in the 1980s. He rolled off the line in December 1984.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">We met Brian, I met Sonia and Mick for the first time, and together we saw loads and loads and loads of VW stuff, including spare parts, wheels, sprockets, carpets, interiors, seats, services and fully restored VW campers with asking prices north of £70,000! Oh, and a Great Dane or two. It was a right caper and a really happy scene with everyone keen to help a fellow VW spod, and all attendees open and welcoming to those not of the scene. I would not go every year but I am very glad I went along at all.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Here are some pictures of the day and a video of Brian doing his thing! It is illegal to motor along the Queen’s highway with Blues if you are not a bone fide emergency vehicle so Brian has motorway socks for his blue lights (truly!)</span></div>
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Part of the weekend routine fell into the pleasant habit of a run to the recycling centre in Ross on Wye (referred to by all as 'the tip' in the 1980s and 1990s but now branded as a more attractive activity). This time we were taking grass cuttings, bush trimmings and glass bottles and jars to recycle (diligently separated by Pa) . I told Pa I was happy to go on my own and leave him to a breakfast egg but of course, I am only 44 so he would come along, telling mother he would 'supervise'. Wise choice, I think.<br />
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After our work emptying this and that, we were held by the team on the ground because this top smart recycling was taking place on a big scale. I could have nipped out just before the operation began but I think Pa wanted to watch (well, of course Pa knew that was true of me....)<br />
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