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On the road to Rio.. (Part One)

February 18, 2007

London – Sao Paulo 

Leaving England turned out to be harder than expected..

Not for the farewells, nervous anticipation and general emotion of it all. That was fine. The problem was physical – not with me but with the plane.

I arrived at Heathrow in good time, found the British Airways desk, checked in, found my seat on the plane and waited patiently.

Then I waited patiently some more.

Then some more..

And then a bit more..

6 long hours later, the problem is solved and we get ready to take off, taxiing up the runway and gathering speed.

The plane erupts into a chorus of cheers.

This was short lived when we suddenly we stop and are informed that the technical problem has returned and so the flight will be cancelled and rearranged for the following day.

Nobody cheers.

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When it comes to the weather, the British are all talk..

February 11, 2007

The rare British snowy landscape has been and gone, lasting only 2.5 days. These two days were enough to cause chaos for everyone except schoolchildren, who relish the possibility of a day off school with the chance to make snowmen and throw snowballs at anyone within range.

It’s a funny situation that the British spend so much time talking about it yet whenever any real weather with any oomph comes to this fair isle, we have no idea what to do and descend into a state of national panic and general flapping about! At least it gives us the opportunity to do what we are best at. Talking even more about the weather. On Thursday, Great Britain set a new world record for the most utterings of the word “snow” – smashing the old record with a staggering 100 billion* mentions of the word in a 24 hour period.

* – this is an approximate figure. I lost count at 12 and estimated the final figure.

I said goodbye to another house this week, the second in a 7 day period. This time it was the family home, lived in for an impressive 25+ years and where most of my childhood years were spent.

The snowfall did allow for some decent parting shots of the house, to remember it by.

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Categories: England, Photos

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It’s Alive! ..and so another site spews itself onto the webscape.

January 30, 2007

Welcome!

Who am I?

Have a look at the About page and find out.

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Categories: England, Photos

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