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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
DP has decided millions of pictures of Callia splashed all over the web just isn’t enough.. so he’s been filming her play time, so he could send clips of her to family and friends..
..keeping in mind we dun actually own a video camera.. we’ve just been using his Goodman’s Digital Photo “brick”, simply ‘cos it [...]
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Tags: Callia, DP110, YouTube
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Congratulations on the birth of ya baby girl.. baby no.3!We hear everything went well and ya all doing great..All the very best wishes..
love, Gurgi & DP110 xxx
..oh gawd.. only 92 days before its my turn..
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Tags: Baby News, Friends
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Over the last couple of days Welshpool has had unprecedented snowfall (upta 1 foot deep in places).. what was only meant to be light snow fall.. turned out to be quite heavy.. almost arriving with a vengeance.. heh.. prolly heard me complaining last year about not getting enough…
Being preggie kinda stopped me from [...]
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Tags: Adventure, Snow, UK, Welshpool
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
baherer @ Newtown not having any maternity wear..
the one reason for going into Newtown was to find some maternity jeans.. and would you believe I tried about 3 stores.. ie. Dorothy Perkins, New Look and Peacocks.. ‘n neither of them did maternity clothes.. their excuse.. ‘our larger stores do it.. but not us‘ [...]
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Tags: Newtown, Pregnancy, Shopping, UK, Wales
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
While still in cumbria, Plainjane also took us both to visit Long Meg. Yet another fantastic stone circle in Cumbria.
The stones of the circle are the daughters and Long Meg herself is 3.6 meters tall.
If we had known a little more about Long Meg before we arrived, we would have looked out for Long [...]
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Tags: Cumbria, England, Nature
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
Henge:”A monument comprising a circular ditch with an external bank which encloses a circle or number of circles of stones or wooden posts.“..says www.newarchaeology.com/articles/gloss.htm
..now let’s be honest.. when ya think of a henge.. like say stonehenge.. castlerigg stone circle.. you’re thinking there’s quite a bit to see.. i mean.. in a stoney kinda way.. *smiles* [...]
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Tags: Cumbria, England, Nature, UK
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Monday, June 12th, 2006
On Tuesday 30th May 2006, Gurgi and myself headed to Cumbria to visit Plainjane. Over the days that followed, we visited a few places of interest.
This ancient monument was built about the same time as other British Stone Circles between 2500 - 1300 BC during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
Although we found out later that [...]
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Tags: Cumbria, England, Nature, UK
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
While Renee and myself were visiting Plainjanes house in Cumbria, we have been busying ourselves visiting places of interest.
We went down the road to have a walk by the river Eden. Although we have got plenty to blog about and lots of photos to post, I decided that my first post on this blog would [...]
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Tags: Cumbria, England, Nature, UK
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
well.. well.. well.. early September last year, the 16th to be precise.. not long after my arrival in the UK.. DP and I went upta Scotland to visit my family in the highlands, Elgin
.. after a few fun days there.. my Nan and Gran decided to drive us back to Welshpool.. and stay a day [...]
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Tags: DP110, Gretna Green, Gurgi, Scotland, UK
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
DP and I have made a couple of trips to the Welshpool Canal Docks lately.. taken something to eat and watch all the lil duckies ‘n swans swim about..
it was pretty nifty.. ‘cos of it being spring ‘n all.. all the lilluns are out and about.. so we’ve watched this lil group of ducklings grow [...]
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Tags: Ducks, UK, Wales, Welshpool
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