Motorbikes, trips & travels. Words & pictures from the road.

Well she may be new and she might not have a name but she’s not getting all the attention! We have Daniel with us today and overnight and he may well have a new sister but today he has had a couple of new trucks (from us) and a new bear (from Richard)

shes arrivati; ella llegó; shes arrivés; shes angekommen; shes прибывшие – she’s arrived

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At 04:25 our new granddaughter made her arrival – somewhat rapidly and only 10 minutes after Sarah had got to the hospital!

yesterday and next up

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It was a bit of a dour game at The Etihad yesterday as City worked to overcome a pretty resolute Stoke team that had a game plan that was as simple as packing the defence – it doesn’t make for a great viewing spectacle but I can understand why some visiting teams set out with […]

pensioners trip out

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Today we called into the Imperial War Museum (North) and it was first class – a good example of an attraction that’s pretty much on our doorstep and yet one we had never made the time to visit. Like any of these type of places they provide plenty of pretty sobering images and words of […]

todays baby news …

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with two days to go to the ‘due date’ there isn’t any news

some organisations are mean spirited

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A few weeks ago we took my parents to lunch in a Beefeater pub/restaurant which was pretty reasonable. I completed an online feedback survey and received a voucher for a bottle of wine next time I eat at a Beefeater … as long as it was within two weeks! As that seemed a little limiting […]