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Interesting seating plan for the state banquet in honour of the US president here Amazing that Tesco bagged 4 seats for Terry, Ian and their wifes. No other grocers there but of cause the bearded wonder of Virgin fame was around as well.
original post – https://geoffjones.com/2004/08/interesting-seating-plan-for-state.html
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Lots of photo upload sites appearing all exploiting the gap left by blogger not accepting piccies direct. I guess the lucky winner is hoping to be bought out by google.
Ones I am evaluating are flickr which has excellent tagging facilities but is poor on uploading piccies and the new one tonight is zoto which has fantastic uploading programme but seems poor on indexing only allowing categories but not tags.
An alternative for simple photo blogging is phlog which handles the posting and blogging much better than either of above.
Yesterday was my 57th birthday and what a jolly day I had! Em made Suzanne and I breakfast in bed followed by my pressies from Suzanne – books on:
The Pennine Way (
The Peddar Way
A Coast to Coast Walk (Wainwright 1973)
Wainwright’s tour in the Lake District – Whitsuntide 1931 with period map
Plus map of Finland circa 1940
and a complete set of cotton bed linen so that I can rest my wary head afto doing all that walking.
Em bought me a pair of slippers and gorgeous cup and saucer from Hydra – for my retirement. (which started on July 1) .
Then it was off to Ceriks for a real shave and head massage. Popped into office to give them all fresh fruit salad for my birthday (They are all on diets so cream cakes are OFF the menu).
Suzanne then took Em and I off to Galleria for a light lunch (why oh why couldnt they be arsed to pop over road and buy as a bottle of Pimms! Instead of saying that had none). Afterwards went to Open Air to try on new boots for all that walking were I made the discovery that I’m closer to size 11.5 rather than the 10 I have at the moment – no wonder I got those blisters last time. Met Cathy on the way back with my pressy of loads of nuts and a bowl.
In the evening Suzanne, Hilary, Caroline Ophelia and Izzy, Nick and Mia, Emily and I all went to the
Afterwards Nick presented me with a
