Leeds v West Ham trip

A group of us went on our annual West Ham away trip for the year, this year, it was Leeds. We took an early train from King's Cross, arriving in Leeds around 10.30am. After checking into our hotel, the very comfortable Double Tree by Hilton, we set off to meet Snowy, a friend of Gerkin's at Whitelocks, a great real ale pub. 

After a few pints of Ilkley Black, and some roast beef and dripping sandwiches, we headed off for the game, which was inevitably a disappointment. The West Ham fans were held back in the ground for about 30 minutes after the game for policing purposes, which gave the crowd plenty of opportunity to take the mickey out of a Steward!

After the game, we caught buses back into town laid on by Leeds Utd, to go to the Becketts Bank, to meet some of the others who didn't go to football, and to watch the end of the Rugby, watching England beat Ireland.

After this we headed back to the hotel, stopping off for a couple of drinks at The Hop, opposite the hotel, which had some Ossett Brewery beers. We got back to the hotel to change and head up to the Skylounge at our hotel for some cocktails. After this, some people went for a curry, while some headed back to The Hop.

The following morning it was an early start to head home again after an enjoyable weekend away.

 

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Weekend with Lev and Sarah

We're just back from a relaxing weekend with Lev and Sarah up in Kirby cane. On Saturday, we went for Lunch at The Anchor in Walberswick. On the way, we stopped off to take in the ancient church in Blythburgh. Its an impressive sight, and the walk up the steps to the Priest's Room was a very tight squeeze!

Saturday evening we went for a very nice meal at The Wherry pub in Geldeston, before heading home Sunday morning.

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After last night's fun and games, we headed to the arches along Southend seafront and had had a fry-up breakfast at the Riviera Cafe on Sunday morning.

We spent Saturday night at Bernie's 40th Birthday party at Clarence Yard in Southend. We had a good evening with everyone getting into the spirit of things with Irish dancing and 'Oops Upside Your Head' among the wide variety of music played by the DJ!!

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Misty...

A moody photo of The Shard, with its top disappearing into the low cloud over London today.

Glow Sticks

We took some 'experimental' photos in the garden with Markus waving his glow sticks around on a 5 second shutter speed.

While Ingvild and Jose went off for a round of Golf at Maylands, the rest of us took the bus down to Valentine's Park where we all fed the squirrels (including one that bit my finger!) and looked at the birds (including the wildly coloured Mandarin Ducks). We had a coffee and something to eat at the Gardeners Cottage Cafe before heading home.

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Xmas Presents

We're having a belated Xmas celebration with Siv's family from Oslo. Here we are modelling our very Kung Fu dressing gowns we got, plus a video of Hedda very excited about all the presents!

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Dad's Port

We decanted the bottle of port that Dad gave us a few weeks ago. The cork just crumbled away, and we had to decant the rest before too much residue came out, and we passed it through a filter. The end results are extremely smooth and drinkable!

Luke's Stag Night

I went with Dave and Len to meet Luke at The Lamb in Leadenhall Market, as it was his Stag night ahead of his wedding next week. A bit of a rowdy night with quite a number of people turning up that Luke knows.

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Snowy weekend in Ely

We're just back from a relaxing weekend with Caroline and the girls in Ely. Due to the heavy snow on Saturday night, we were able to go out in the garden on Sunday morning and make a snowman family. Of course Daisy enjoyed being out with us and playing out in the snow!

Ely Snowman Family from martin clinton on Vimeo.