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January 16 to
24. Visit of Charlie & Katie
The year began with a visit by Charlie and his
girl-friend Katie. We had a couple of days in London
(including John's "Da
Vinci Code Trail" )and
others in Cambridge and Essex. The highlight was a tour of the Greene King
brewery in Bury St Edmunds. |
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Cambridge |
Greenwich/Tower |
Finchingfield |
Thaxted |
Bury St
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Feb 24 Having dropped them back
at Gatwick we decided to visit the bridge to play Pooh Sticks
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Fordcombe |
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Feb 10
We renewed our exploration for Lilliput Lane models around
Suffolk. |
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Brent Eliegh |
Kersey |
Dalham |
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May 10-15
Holiday In Sarasota
We
visited Abby in Florida. we had a great day out touring round Anna Maria
Island. On return to Detroit John was a Presentation judge at Formula SAE at Pontiac |
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Midnight Pass |
Anna Maria |
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| May
25th To celebrate our
3rd wedding anniversary, john had arranged a surprise trip to see a
house designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Northampton.....but with
an LL Hunt day en route. |
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Weekley |
Nobottle |
Newnham |
Northampton |
Radwell |
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May
28
We had tickets to see an England XV take on the Barbarians (Rest of
World) at Rugby Union at Twickenham but visited Syon Park before. |
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May 29 We
stayed overnight with John's Mum and took her out for
lunch and the day at St Katherine's dock |
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Twickenham |
St
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June 2nd
On Judy's birthday, we had another trip out across Suffolk. The
focus was lunch at the excellent St Peter's Brewery in South Elmham, but
we took the opportunity to find some LL places en route. |
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South Elmham |
Lowestoft |
Creeting St Mary |
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May
4th We had tickets to see Neil Diamond in concert at Woburn Abbey. This
time we took the opportunity to hunt down some LL buildings in Beds and
Bucks and included a nostalgic trip back to Newport Pagnell and Milton
Keynes. |
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Old Warden |
Flitton |
Newport Pagnell |
Milton Keynes |
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Adstock |
Winslow |
Soulbury |
Milton Bryant |
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June
22nd/23rd
Mum and Shirley visited us. On 23rd we went to Peter Beales
roses at Attleburgh and Wymondham. |
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On 24th we watched horses on the
gallops and walked around Newmarket |
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Newmarket Gallops |
Newmarket Town |
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June 9th and July 22nd major work was carried out to clear ivy off the shed,
and re-roof it.
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Martyn put down the plinth for the
phone box, built a planter and water feature and a new patio.
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Then the fun of installing the
phone box which took 2 attempts. |
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Patio |
Phone Box |
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Holiday In Ireland
Our pictures of Ireland were taken on our
vacation in 2005 from June 27 to July 2.
It coincided with a trip of the choirs of St
Mary, Wayne and Sacred Heart, Dearborn -- Judy's sister Joanne and
bother-in-law, Chuck, being members of the latter. Her brother, John, and his
wife , Kathy, were also on the trip.
We arranged our itinerary to stay and visit
many of the places on the choir trip.
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Roscommon |
Knock |
Galway |
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Menlo Park |
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Thoor Ballylee |
Burren Region |
Doolin |
Cliffs of Moher |
Killarney |
International
Hotel |
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Dingle Peninsula |
Ventry |
Muckross |
Killarney
Cathedral |
Killarney |
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Blarney Castle |
County Cork |
Waterford |
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Granville |
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July 1 |
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Waterford Crystal |
Kennedy Homestead |
Kilmore Quay |
Glendalough |
Dublin |
Buswells Hotel |
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Trinity College |
Tour of Dublin |
Howth |
St Mary's Pro Cathedral |
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| July 7 -10
Formula Student at Bruntingthorpe
where John was a judge for Presentation and Electronics. and |
July 3
he went down on to help install a Wireless hotspot for the
students |
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July 10
Judy joined him on the for the endurance runs and prize-giving. |
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Wireless hotspot |
FS 2006 |
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| On July
17 and 24 we went to concerts at Blickling Hall, Norfolk with Will Young
and Ronan Keating respectively. On the 24th we did some LL hunting en
route |
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Blickling |
Roudham |
Woodbastwick |
Felbrigg |
Cley |
Blickling |
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July 24 |
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July 28
We took Mum to see her friends, Doug &
Ruby Gowing, in Bexhill and on teh way back we stopped at Scotney Castle |
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Scotney
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Aug
1 We went to Gatwick to get a flight to the US but our standby tickets
didn't get us on the full flight. We did some sightseeing around Kent
and tried again on Aug 2nd to no avail. |
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Chiddingstone |
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booked a flight for Aug 5th we made the most of the extra time in the UK
and took a trip to Sandringham in Norfolk but did some sightseeing and
LL hunting on the way. We were particularly taken with Kings Lynn. We
also visited Nelson's birthplace at Burnham Thorpe which was interesting
later in October for the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. |
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Kings Lynn |
Burnham Thorpe |
Wells |
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Snettisham |
Sandringham |
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August and September
Spent in the US.
We visited Judy's sister's
cottage in Port Sanilac twice, the Renaissance Festival, had a boat trip
across to Canada with John's former secretary, Marge Coogan and her
husband Mike, and attended the wedding of Judy's niece, Janeen.
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Port Sanilac |
Renaissance
Festival |
Port Sanilac |
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Aug 28 |
Sep 3-4 |
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Amhertsburg |
Janeen's Wedding |
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Sep 30 |
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Oct 10
Went to the National Ploughing
Championships at Soham followed by a visit to the town |
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Soham |
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Oct
20
Mum and Shirley came up for the day and we went to Bury St Edmunds to
see the new tower which had recently been "opened". We also enjoyed the
Abbey Gardens |
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Oct 21
We had tickets for a recording of a
Celebrity version of "The Weakest link" at Pinewood. We took the
opportunity to visit the Chiltern Open Air Museum in the morning at
Chalfont St Peter. |
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As we waited to go in to Pinewood we had a good view of
the "007" sound stage. |
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| Chalfont St Giles |
Chiltern Open Air
Museum |
Lunch at the Swan, Denham |
Pinewood |
"Weakest Link" |
| On Oct 23 we saw
West Ham beat Middlesborough at Upton Park with Martyn & Fiona
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Oct 26
We took a trip to London, primarily
to see John Wesley's conversion site at Aldersgate. We started at his
church and had a personal tour of his house. We also had an excellent
tour round St Paul's and tracked some LL originals. |
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| Wesley |
St Paul's |
St Barts |
Barbican |
Holborn |
Soho sq |
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27 We took Mum to Bexhilll and took the opportunity to see the
re-furbished De La Warr Pavillion which had been re-opened that week. |
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Bexhill |
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Oct 28
We took a tour of the National Stud
followed by racing at Newmarket's
Rowley mile course for the last meeting of the year. |
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Rowley Mile |
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Nov 5/6
We stayed with Bill & Joan Fairclough
in North Fambridge |
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Nov
12
We went to London for the Lord Mayor's Show -- parade in the morning
and fireworks in the evening. During the afternoon we tracked down some
more LL buildings. |
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| Lord Mayor's Show |
Bayswater |
Knightsbridge |
Mayfair |
Piccadilly |
Fireworks |
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22 We had tickets for a recording of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" at
Elstree. We did some LL hunting in Essex en route and had lunch at the
Spaniard's Inn in Hampstead, and popped in to Kenwood House. |
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| Saffron Walden |
Clavering |
Widdington |
Highgate |
Hampstead |
Elstree |
| Nov 25
A shopping day in Cambridge but we visited Lode on the way back to
see the original building of a LL model we had just bought. |
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Dec
4
We travelled to Framlingham (via Orford) for
the Ordination of Rev
Joyce Williams who is the new Curate at Exning. |
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Framlingham |
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Dec 7
A small LL hunt en route Chelmsford |
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Dec 10
We flew to US from Heathrow for
Christmas |
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Heathrow |
St
Clair |
Sumner |
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