No, not my Grandma. The book. You can have a browse inside it here – some of the pictures are genius! 🙂

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Yesterday morning, we got up relatively early and took the train down to Orpington to pick up our new car. Everything went smoothly, we picked up the keys and transferred all the documents in about ten minutes, and then it was ours to drive back. Exciting stuff! We had lunch with Philippa’s parents, and then

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… Now stop worrying and enjoy life. This is the slogan from the atheist bus campaign – although it’s been in the news for a while, it is starting today. It was brought to my attention my Anne-Marie’s excellent blog post earlier today. I always found this statement to be quite funny. “Probably” no God?

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Well, some good news: the car has been fixed! Yay! It wasn’t too expensive either, I said that I was going to sell the car in a week and so my mechanic friend managed to find a second hand radiator from a scrapyard. (If we’d waited for a new one, it would have been next

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Well, after having the little rant about the car, I thought I’d post up something a bit more positive! I bought a new guitar yesterday. It’s a Squier Stratocaster Classic Vibe. Squier used to be cheap knock-off copies of Fender guitars… now they are expensive knock-off copies of Fender guitars! Just kidding. Apparently it’s one

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As I mentioned in the previous post, we we looking at buying a second-hand Saab 9-3. I was just waiting on the insurance premium quote to come back. Anyway, I did get the insurance quote back and it was OK, so we called up and made an offer on the car. We said we would

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First all, let me say – happy 2009! I hope it is a good year for you 🙂 Well, the past few days have gone by pretty quickly. Last Sunday, Phil and I travelled down to Kent to stay with Phil’s parents for a few days. We had a great time – very restful! We

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Just thought I’d better update before I forget everything that’s gone on at Christmas! On Christmas Eve we went to the carols by candlelight service at Fordham. It was absolutely packed! Around 300 people in the church – a church which has a seating capacity of about 150. We put out a whole load of

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Had my work Christmas meal at lunchtime yesterday. We have our Christmas Eve carol service at Fordham tonight. I feel like Christmas has finally arrived! Aaanyway. I hope that you all have a lovely Christmas this year, and do spend some time reflecting on the Christmas story. Remember, despite all the cute pictures of Joseph

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Well, we had the final wedding of 2008 yesterday. It went well! It was a civil ceremony at Vaulty Manor near Witham, followed by a reception there. Very nice ‘service’ (not sure if you can call a civil ceremony a ‘service’ but still), followed by a delicious dinner (great beef), followed by me DJing. Ah,

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