Enjoying New Year’s Eve at home, with a bottle of cider and nibbles.
Wishing everyone a great New Year and all the best for 2024.
Month: December 2023
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Week 198 – Dec 31st – Cheers
Cheers and all the best for 2024 -
Week 198 – Dec 29th – West Bromwich Albion v Leeds United
West Bromwich Albion 1 Leeds United 0 – HT 1-0
Diangana (37)
Friday was not a good night, with Leeds losing to one of their closest rivals for promotion.
Grady Diangana’s goal saw West Bromwich move within three points of fourth-placed Leeds in the Championship with a 1-0 win over the Yorkshire side at The Hawthorns.
The DR Congo midfielder struck in the first half of a tight, breathless affair against a Leeds side who now have just one win in their past five games.
Whites manager Daniel Farke switched to three at the back on the hour mark in a bid to prise open a determined Baggies defence but, despite a late siege of the opposition goal, they could find no way through.
The home side could have won by more as Djed Spence kicked a Cedric Kipre shot off the line, although Leeds were denied a strong penalty claim when Kipre appeared to pull down Willy Gnonto as he shaped to shoot inside the box.
Both sides have been in stuttering form in December, but West Brom’s 1-0 win over Norwich on Tuesday hinted at their improvement, while Leeds fell to defeat at Preston as they watched the top three of Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton start to move further clear of them.
As mentioned above, December as not been a great month for Leeds, and we need to pick up in the New Year, as were now 9 points behind Ipswich who are in 2nd place for the automatic promotion spot.
Marching On Together
League position 4th after 25 games
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Week 198 – Dec 29th – Washing machine
The new washing machine was delivered this morning.
The delivery guys were brilliant and got the old machine out and new machine in, all done within 20 minutes.
Now to play catch up with the washing pile, which had been helped by taking some down to Claire’s dad over Christmas.
Washing machine in place. Great job by the delivery guys -
Week 198 – Dec 28th – London
After our wonderful lunch, we took a tube to Harrods.
This wasn’t greatest of decisions as it was heaving in Harrods and again the Christmas deals were not great either.
Of course, in London a picture of The Shard. 
Christmas tree outside Harrods. I mean how can a hand flannel be £90?
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Week 198 – Dec 28th – The Ivy restaurant – Part 4
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Week 198 – Dec 28th – The Ivy restaurant – Part 3
Chicken and mushroom main course. 
Desert time. 
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Week 198 – Dec 28th – The Ivy restaurant – Part 2
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Week 198 – Dec 28th – The Ivy restaurant – Part 1
Today as a Christmas treat, we had booked to go to the Ivy restaurant for the polar bear Christmas lunch.
Pictures from the visit.
A small Christmas tree as the Hay’s Gallery 
The polar bear outside the Ivy Restaurant 
Become our favourite cocktail here. – East 9 hold up -
Week 198 – Dec 28th – HM Land Registry Property Alert Activity Update
If you’re in the UK, I would definitely recommend this.
Even more so after reading on a local website, that someone had their property up for construction work and it wasn’t the home owners that had proposed it.
Our property was all OK.
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Week 198 – Dec 27th – New washing machine
Now back home, we visited Currys to try and take advantage of the after Christmas deals to get a new washing machine, as our machine the drum had come loose. I must admit the deals weren’t great.
This was the machine we chose and it will be delivered in two days’ time, which we weren’t expecting.
New washing machine we decided to purchased. 
