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Posted on June 27, 2009 by jonners99
We arrived at the campsite around 3:30 on the Thursday and set up camp. Once this was done we headed off for a walk, we found the perimeter road around the track. We passed the entrance to the track and wandered all the way around the track to Vale which is about 2/3s of the way before finding a gate stopping as getting further… great. We therefore just sauntered back to the campsite for a BBQ
Posted on December 3, 2008 by jonners99
The rush to Christmas affects us all and the volunteers at The Café @The Centre are no exception.
The result – even fewer volunteers when we actually need more to cope with the pre-Christmas rush.
Can you please spare just a few hours to help out?
The alternative is that we will have to close at certain times.
Please call The Centre 01403 218531 during opening hours or leave a message on 01403 218821 evenings. Alternatively, e-mail info@crownbookshorsham.co.uk
Many thanks
Doug Fletcher
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Posted on October 18, 2008 by jonners99
Went to work today and had a nice day of it. When I got home I played F1 and then in the evening drove to Kent Uni to pick up my wife. This is where things go annoying, my phone hasn’t been working perfectly. Well tonight it decided it couldn’t access the phone or any of my contact information… which is fun. So therefore with Kent being a big campus I did not really know where Beth was. I found the college she said she was in relatively quickly and then wandered around the whole building trying to find an entrance to the bar. Failing that I went in the main entrance and wandered about looking for the bar. Eventually I found Beth and we headed to the bar in another college which serves Mexican food. We got an enchilada, nachos and potato wedges. Beth’s meal was the potato wedges, she wanted something small but instead we got a huge plate of nachos to share and a huge bowl of potato wedges. The food tasted very good and was student price. We will have to go back as it was very nice.
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Posted on October 12, 2008 by jonners99
I got up early this morning and started talking to my father on MSN as is often the case on Saturday morningsas he gets up as early as I do. The rest of the morning was spent waiting for Beth to wake up. In the afternoon we went out for lunch with Ben and Tash, we were meant to also be meeting other couples from the Canterbury pentecostal church but I guess they don’t have any young couples as no-one showed up. Oh well it was a nice meal for the four of us anyway.
At 2pm I watched qualifying which originally happened at 6 am but I was not going to be getting up that early considering I am getting up early tomorrow for the race itself. The rest of the afternoon was spent walking around town spending as little money as possible and then heading home to watch England beat Kazakhstan 5-1 in a not so convincing way considering the scoreline. In the evening we watched My Name is Early and finished the James May show on robots.
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Posted on August 19, 2008 by jonners99
The morning in my case was spent building things, having got the tv stand and bedside table out of the way yesterday I had a shoe rack, big bookcase and shelf unit still to build. I managed to get the bookcase and shoe rack done by lunch time. Beth and I headed off on a trek to Sainsburys where we got our weeks shop and a bunch of household goods. The Sainsburys in Canterbury is huge and relatively close so I am happy. We had our first experience of a Canterbury bus as well, it cost 70p (beats London) and was almost empty. It also stops a hundred metres from our flat which makes it even more perfect. No idea how frequently they run though.
When we got back in and had put the shopping away I started alphabetizing our DVD’s they just about all fit on two bookcases which is also good. For lunch we went across the street to the American café where the Blomberg’s bought us burritos a couple of weeks ago. This time we had fajitas and nachos which came to £6 for both of us which isn’t bad at all. I reckon they are aiming for American style pricing and the food tastes pretty good so I support them.
After building the shelving in the afternoon I headed into town to buy some essentials and see if anywhere on the high street was advertising job vacancies, they weren’t which is annoying. More annoying is that I forgot my printer cable so if I am to hand in a CV anywhere I need to go to the library first. I did sign on there though and so I now have a Canterbury library card and free internet use whenever I am in town.
I got home and played Fifa and then had pasta with my wife. We then sat down and watched Devil Wears Prada and some Qi before going to bed quite early. Oh yeah, I nearly forgot to say, Beth and I have had our phoneline connected (internet has to wait another week) if you want our number then leave a comment and I will email it to you.
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Posted on August 18, 2008 by jonners99
This morning we all trotted off to church after seeing Britain achieve more Olympic glory. I’m pretty sure Britain has never been 3rd in the overall standings in my lifetime. Anyway church was strange as it often is during the summer with a story about Bob Hope taking place during it. It was still enjoyable though. This day was, however, dominated by the fact it was our moving in day, sure we have had the flat for the last month but it was used for storage mainly. Today we moved most of my stuff over, the roads were clear which was very nice as the back of the car was very cramped. After some attempts at unpacking small things I decided to get on with building the TV stand as that will house quite a lot of the gumpf littering the room. Its not a bad TV stand actually. In the evening Beth and I treated my parents to a roast dinner in the wetherspoons across the street from us, sure they only had beef left but it was still a good meal. When we got home and my parents had left Beth played some Boom Blox while I unpacked some more things. I then joined her and we tied over the ten rounds. We headed off to bed rather early and found that a street light pretty much outside the window was able to get through the curtains (not too badly) and that the traffic noise was rather loud… ah well, it’s the first night. We’ll be used to it soon.
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Posted on August 17, 2008 by jonners99
After waking early I went with my father to take Craig Blomberg to Gatwick airport. On arriving back home Beth, my mother and I watched the rowing finals as Britain picked up quite a few medals. On our way into town we paid in our wedding money and then had lunch in Little Black Olive. Beth and I went home and relaxed for the afternoon. In the evening my mother made dinner and then in the evening Paddy came over and paid Boom Blox with us.
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Posted on August 16, 2008 by jonners99
This morning we awoke in my flat bright and early and I finished my Ted Dekker trilogy. While there may have been times when it didn’t make much sense to me and where it seemingly didn’t make much sense to him either it was a good series of books and I enjoyed reading them. Seems to be the way with Ted Dekker that his books confuse him at some point in writing them and they lag a bit in the middle as he works it out. Enjoyable though and I will keep reading. At 9:30 Beth and I left my flat for the penultimate time to go to the Home Office in Croydon. We started our journey with the 170 to Clapham Junction and then took the train to East Croydon leading to a five minute walk. I was nervous about this trip, we get it wrong and Beth gets deported and I am stuck with a flat in Canterbury I can’t pay for. We had heard many people talking about how difficult it would be for us to get the visa.
We walked up to the building and queued with others to get into the building. Once inside we went through security who checked we had no bombs or whatever and then joined another queue which took 25 minutes. We eventually got to a desk where we registered our intent to get a visa and were then told to go upstairs for billing. We paid our £595 for the application and then registered again with another lady. Next Beth had her biometric information taken. Basically from the end of our time queuing to this point took 20 minutes. We then had to wait in a reception for twenty minutes before we saw a case worker who just took some of our information to be photocopied and then said we had the visa, no questioning, and no checking of finances, no asking about my employment just a simple photocopying. We went and got lunch and by the time we had finished eating Beth’s passport was completed and we could leave. It really was that easy. Two hours after entering we left again.
When we arrived back at my flat I cleaned the kitchen and my room to the best of my ability (which isn’t that great) and then my parents arrived and I moved out of my flat. On arriving home we played Boom Blox with my parents and waited for Beth’s dad to arrive. He eventually did and so we showed off our Paris pictures to the assembled parents before retiring to bed.
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Posted on August 15, 2008 by jonners99
This morning Beth and I woke late, well Beth did. I sat in our other room and read my book for an hour before she appeared. We had another of the best breakfasts ever at the hotel and then went and bought a print from a street vendor of the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower. We finished packing our things and then got the taxi to the train station. Lunch was from a café and was alright. The train home took two and half hours and we then had to tube across London to Hammersmith to get back to my flat. We had Mama’s pizza with Tim and Danielle and then watched Keeping Mum with them which was relatively funny.
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Posted on August 2, 2008 by jonners99
This morning I went round to Granddad’s house to put the finishing touches to Beth’s bike. Whilst there I decided that it probably isn’t best suited to her as it is heavy, the handlebar cannot be raised high enough (thanks for pointing these out Granddad) but mainly we have nowhere to store it. I therefore spent most of the rest of my time at their house looking at folding bikes, these would be far more sensible as we could detach it quickly and store it in the flat. Nanna was kind enough to make me sausages for lunch and then I went into town with Granddad to look at folding bikes. The town only had one in it and it was £400 which is about double what I would ever pay. If anyone has any ideas please email me, I would say leave a comment but as I explained yesterday I have screwed that up.
For dinner I had Fish and Chips and then I went to Horsham’s Capitol to watch the X Files Movie with my Father. It was better than I was expecting which was nice.
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