Postcard from Timperley

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Friday, 24 January 2014

10 to 18 January 2014 – La Clusaz

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Here’s a typical view from the Beauregard Plateau. If you would like to view more photos from this trip, there’s a slideshow with 50 image...
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Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Toby and Krystle’s Cake (1)

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Sue likes baking cakes for special occasions. This rather hefty mixture is for one of Toby and Krystle’s tiers (sic?) in March.
Monday, 20 January 2014

Sunday 19 January 2014 – An Afternoon with Jacob and Jessica

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A bike ride gets the thumbs up from Jacob these days. The reward for cycling unaided around the course was a new rocket launcher. Can you...

Monday 20 January 2014 – The Bridgewater Canal in Sale

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As frequently happens, we’ve returned to lovely weather in Timperley. Positively spring like today. If I’d had my phone and some money (for...
Saturday, 18 January 2014

Friday 17 January 2014 - Last Tango in La Clusaz

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Overnight snow deteriorated to rain whilst we enjoyed our croissants at the start of a leisurely morning. Our bag (there is only one for thi...
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Thursday, 16 January 2014

Thursday 16 January 2014 - Gollet and Bellavarde

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Gollet and Bellavarde are the highlights of the Nordic ski pistes on the Plateau des Confins, to which the number 2 skibus delivers us effic...
Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Wednesday 15 January 2014 - Plateau des Glières

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Overnight snow (pictured as we left the restaurant last night) and colder temperatures left the commuters to this Alpine village with icy ro...
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Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Tuesday 14 January 2014 - A Walk from La Croix Fry

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Wet, light snow continued to fall until after 10am, allowing us the luxury of another lie in before catching the eleven o'clock bus up t...
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Monday, 13 January 2014

Monday 13 January 2014 - Plateau des Confins

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Today's excursion with our skis involved a short bus ride past a gigantic English rose to the chapel at Confins. We'd enjoyed a love...
Sunday, 12 January 2014

Sunday 12 January 2014 - Beauregard Plateau

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A blue sky day saw us on a gondola heading up to the plateau by 11am, after a long lie in and a productive visit to the chocolate croissant ...
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Saturday, 11 January 2014

Saturday 11 January 2014 - La Clusaz

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La Clusaz is apparently one of the most popular ski resorts in the French Alps. It's more a bustling alpine village than a purpose built...
Friday, 10 January 2014

First Trip of 2014

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Despite our frailties, Sue and I are bravely embarking on our first trip of the year. It's the only way to prevent her from working!  We...
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Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Wednesday 1 January 2014 – Around Silverdale

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Silverdale is a favourite place, and suitable for days that promise to be wet, like this one. We much prefer to halt in the Silverdale/Arns...
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Monday, 6 January 2014

Sunday 29 December 2013 – A Walk from Rivington

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This final entry relating to 2013 returns to familiar ground for me and Sue, but Phil and Sue hadn’t been here before. Andrew and Ruth live...
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Sunday, 5 January 2014

'Stretford Reach', a sculpture by Paul Bearman and Stephen Hitchin

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I pass through Stretford frequently these days, as the good surface of the Bridgewater Way provides an ideal venue for an off-road bike rid...

France Beckons

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Happy New Year, everyone, although the next two postings will revert back to last year’s unfinished business. Sue and I are looking forwar...
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Thursday, 2 January 2014

Christmas 2013

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Here are Jacob and Jessica with mum and dad, Uncle Mike, and three Grandmas (above), plus two more Grandmas and a Granddad below. On refl...
Monday, 30 December 2013

A New Canon G16 Camera, and ‘Nerves of Steel’

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In 2008 I replaced my broken Canon Powershot S70 with a G10, which entered these pages in a blaze of publicity, here , here , and here . T...
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Saturday, 28 December 2013

Sunday 22 December 2013 – Knowle Locks

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Whilst visiting Sue’s family in Solihull, we managed a short walk along the Grand Union Canal towpath with Helen and Jacob, on one of the ...
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