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BBP
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Beautiful city... Have fun in Paris! Let us know if you're doing any fun touristy things. My favourite is looking down at the traffic from the Arc de
Triomphe.
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polydigm
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Yesterday we went to the Louvre, which is just a couple of blocks away. Today we're doing a kind of scenic tour on foot along the Seine taking in the
Notre Dame cathedral and L'île de la Cité, coming back for lunch then onto Le Jardin des Tuileries and l'Arc de Triomphe. By this stage we may need to
jump on the Metro to get back for tea.
... time pass ...
Ha ha, the plans of mice and men ... I'll tell you what actually happened later
[Edited on 18-12-12 by polydigm]
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Hey, you're in Yoorp? Have a great time. France is secretly my favourite country. Weirdly enough, I've never managed to spend more than a day in Paris
i.e. just passing through. Must remedy this someday
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polydigm
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Yoorp = Europe??
Anyway, to keep it short, my eldest son and I started the day by going to do a quick shop and we decided to investigate SIMs on the way back. We've
had our phones unlocked and we thought we'd buy local SIMs while here to save money on international roaming. Well, the whole thing got rapidly
complicated and we didn't end up going sight seeing until 2:30PM.
So we walked to l'Arc de Triomphe and back along the bank of the Seine on the way there. Our walk was more than 8km total. My left hip and lower back
were already complaining when we got to the ADT. We didn't climb it. We picked up some crépes with ham and cheese and also some with nutella and
banana.
And, did I mention that our flat is on the 4th floor with an old fashioned winding wooden stairs. So, when I got back from the above I then had to
climb the stairs. Funnily enough, I woke up today feeling much fitter, so I was probably a little out of shape and some of it is coming back.
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Caputh
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Yoorp is how I thought one of my favourite cartoonists - Steve Bell- thinks that George W. Bush says Europe.
Actually, he spells it "Yurp" here
http://gal.darkervision.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/bellonbush.j...
I just think it's funny. Hope you're still having a great time.
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polydigm
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Yes, we've been having a great time, but we're on the plane to London in 16 and a half hours time. One more wander about Paris left before we leave.
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BBP
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Which is also a very beautiful city. Enjoy your holiday Poly!
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polydigm
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We're actually staying in Reading, but London is on our list of course. We're all still wearing the same clothes we arrived in because Air France lost
our luggage. They've found three of the four suitcases but still haven't managed to deliver them. Here's hoping they arrive tomorrow. We still managed
to have a most enjoyable day with relatives today. I'll tell the rest of the story at some point.
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polydigm
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Okay, the suitcases arrived in London this morning but the delivery service said they couldn't drop them off until tomorrow so I went and picked them
up myself. The missing suitcase is my wife's, the one with all the Christmas presents in. So, the palaver is not over yet. My wife took our daughter
to hospital last night, with what turned out to be the tonsillitis from hell and she's still there now.
So, all in all, Christmas has been wiped out. We're going to have a go at celebrating tomorrow.
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BBP
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Goodness, Poly! I hope your daughter is OK...
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polydigm
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Catherine is being discharged as I write this, she is now feeling a lot better. I had the same virus as her, she and I came down with the initial
symptoms at the same time. I've kind of stayed on top of it while she went under. Mine, starting two days ago began develop a secondary infection.
Saw the doctor today after having a bad night, but she thinks I'm on top of it so no antibiotics for me. Basically, go home and hang in there, and
here I am doing just that. It could be worse, I could be a Justin Bieber fan.
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BBP
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 That's good, hope it'll work out...
Google has a new easter egg: type askew. It didn't work for me.
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polydigm
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Okay, last night wasn't so bad and I'm feeling significantly better today. Took a ride to the airport today to drop my father in law and his
girlfriend off for a flight to Italy. This afternoon we went to an exhibition of the pictures of 10 photographers taken during the 60s and 70s. Among
them was David Goldblatt, a South African who is still living in Johannesburg and documenting the poverty that still remains there.
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BBP
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Grocery day today, I'm freezing!
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here's a random one for ya
I still get wolfgang-vault memos every day in my inbox for shows + posters + merch they promote. I always throw them away. But this time there was a
miles davis quintet show @ Newport Jazz Fest, in Newport, RI on 2July67. Short set of just over 32 minutes, I'm instantly transported.
A year or two ago I caught a summer 1966 show of the same group, recorded for AFN in Europe I think that's just as good with different numbers. There
is a general lack of this material in particular and we are just beginning to see a few coming out. I am hoping we will get a number of these old
mid-late'60's MD quintet shows released by the columbia label under the 'bootleg series' aegis. The wolfgang blurb gives notice that the present
promotion of this show as compared to the zillion others they have by everybody in that era... is in light of last year's official release of1967
shows,
columbia bootleg 1967 3cd + dvd set: http://www.amazon.com/LIVE-Europe-1967-Bootleg-Vol/dp/B005ARYEY6/
wolfgang Newport 1967 show: http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/miles-davis-quintet/concerts/newport-...
sry I got tangled up in the links
But this '67 show from wolfgang is very nice. Hot show.
[Edited on 29-12-12 by punknaynowned]
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polydigm
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Finally, a week later, they've found my wife's bag. She's picking it up shortly. Hope it's not damaged.
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I see a birthday present wish coming up
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/5MrT1n/inhabitat.com/the-omote-3d-pho...
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BBP
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...That's creepy.
It took me two days, but I've finally found out where Youtube stores its user information: in the Temporary Internet Files folder. I'll clear it out
daily and hope there's some way I can tell IE9 to stop making that for YT.
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polydigm
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Isn't it just in a cookie? You can delete those en masse or individually easily enough in most browsers. If you turn cookies off, some web sites won't
work at all.
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polydigm
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I'm off on a train to Birmingham this morning to go and meet up with a friend from school that I haven't seen or heard of for almost 41 years. I've
been trying to find him on and off for a long, long time but I finally gave up and joined FaceBook and there he was, an unexpected surprise.
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