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  • Week 231 – August 16th – 20 years on

    I couldn’t believe when I received an email this morning regarding a location we love.

    20 years ago today, were the terrible flooding and destruction of Boscastle in Cornwall.

    It’s a beautiful place and we love going there, but it must have been horrible to see all the rain and water coming down the hill roads and flooding properties and pushing items including cars into the quay and then out to the Atlantic Ocean.

    As mentioned, it is a beautiful place and thankfully they have recovered to allow many more people to see the lovely village and quay. See previous blog postings.

  • Week 231 – August 16th – Another win

    Another 3 ball win on the national lottery, on a nice little run.

    Lottery
    Another 3 ball win.

  • Week 231 – August 14th – Car service

    This morning I took the car in for its 20,000 miles service.

    This is a bigger service and thankfully everything was OK.

    I like how they send a video of all the checking underneath the car and tyre pressures.

  • Week 230 – August 10th – Bluewater

    This afternoon we met up with Claire’s godson Jack at Bluewater and had a lovely time catching up with him and how his university was going. Whilst there, we also had Stephanie join us of course at Costa. What would Claire do without her Costa?

  • Week 228 – July 26th – Another lottery win

    Well we must have done something good, as we managed to get another 3 ball win on the National Lottery.

    Lottery
    Another 3 ball win.

  • Week 226 – July 14th – England v Spain

    England 1  Spain 2 – HT 0-0

    C. Palmer (73′)  Nico Williams (47′), Mikel Oyarzabal (86′)

    Assists –

    J. Bellingham (73′)  Lamine Yamal (47′), Marc Cucurella (86′)

    Venue: Olympiastadion Berlin Attendance: 65,600

    So for the 1st time in their history, England have made a final on foreign soil. Can they win?

    Well there against the best team in tournament, so it would be some achievement and surprise if they did.

    Let’s sit down in front of the TV and see what happens.

    England’s quest to end 58 years of pain and disappointment ended in failure as they were beaten by Spain in the Euro 2024 final at Berlin’s Olympiastadion.

    Gareth Southgate’s side were sunk by Mikel Oyarzabal’s late winner to leave England heartbroken again in a second successive European Championship final and unable to end the long wait for success for the men’s team.

    Spain’s young star wingers combined to give them the lead two minutes after the break as Lamine Yamal’s pass opened up space for Nico Williams to beat England keeper Jordan Pickford with a powerful low finish.

    England captain Harry Kane was out of sorts once more and was substituted on the hour and it was Cole Palmer – on for Kobbie Mainoo – who raised hopes of another dramatic comeback with a composed left-foot strike after 73 minutes.

    It was Spain, however, who snatched the win four minutes from time as Oyarzabal slid home Marc Cucurella’s cross to leave England the nearly men once more.

    Well the best team won, but we should be proud that we have made the final again. Not played the best football, but England stuck together and battled to get there.

    I doubt Gareth Southgate will stay, even though he has one of the best England’s records ever, just because of the way he has been treated earlier in the tournament, would you want that in your job?

    Will England win a World Cup or Euro Final in my life time (well I was alive when we won in 1966), I think only if they win the World Cup or Euro’s in the next 4 years and the players play as they do for their clubs.

  • Week 226 – July 13th – Beverley Hills Cop. AxelF

    Can’t believe its 40 years since the 1st Beverley Hills Cop and Eddie Murphy hardly looked any different, though the other two main returning characters, you couldn’t say that.

    Instead of 1st showing in the cinema, this was on Netflix.

    I didn’t realise until looking into, Eddie, he didn’t like the 3rd film.

    It was ok film, made for an enjoyable evening, before the big match tomorrow night.

  • Week 226 – July 13th – Bird crazy

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  • Week 226 – July 10th – Petition time

    This afternoon, I signed a petition regarding toll prices for using the Blackwall tunnel, which has been free for over 100 years and now they want to charge to help pay for the new SilverTown tunnel, which I don’t see of any benefit to or a lot of people.

    I doubt anything will come of it, because Khan seems to get way on anything and everything. Especially when it involves grabbing money of people..

    But as they say, if you don’t try or do something, you don’t know.

  • Week 225 – July 7th – British Grand Prix

    As the weather hadn’t been brilliant since Thursday and for the only time of the year, a grand prix race is shown live on free to air television, we decided to watch the British Grand Prix.

    What a race it was with 3 British drivers taking the top 3 grid places, which hadn’t ever for the British Grand Prix.

    The race was great as there was a lot of overtaking and especially the final result, as Claire favourite Lewis Hamilton won his final British Grand Prix race as a Mercedes driver and was his first win in 945 days.

    Even on the television, the noise of the crowd was incredible and Lewis was very emotional.

    Great race and result.

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