bigdaddystevieB

the name is how our middle daughter used to introduce me to some of her friends (sad but true!)

Monday, March 31, 2008

ooops!

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Saw this on a car in Okehampton over the weekend. Clearly, someone had bashed into the front wing of this person’s vehicle (presumably witho...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

ten tors training on dartmoor

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Set out at 4.30am yesterday on (what was supposed to be) a two-day training exercise on Dartmoor with 15-17 year olds. In the event, things ...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

golf tour

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On the first day he started at school as a tiny Year 7, eighteen months or so ago, this young man (it would be wrong to mention him by name)...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

laura marling

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In January, my lovely brother Alan sent me a YouTube video of Laura Marling singing “New Romantic”. I’d never heard of her. Her music is unu...
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Sunday, March 23, 2008

easter

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Like good friend Gareth , I’ve also been watching “The Passion” on BBC tv. Like her, I’ve been a little disappointed so far (the final episo...
Saturday, March 22, 2008

orchid+mantelpiece+card

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Moira received a birthday card a couple of weeks ago from relatives in Australia. Although the photograph here is rather small, you might be...
Friday, March 21, 2008

red elastic bands

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I don’t know about you, but I’m getting more and more cheesed off seeing red elastic bands scattered at various points up and down our stree...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008

flight of the red balloon

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Moira was at her book group last night, so I decided to go the Watershed to see “Flight of the Red Balloon” (somewhat amazingly I managed to...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

southbank bristol arts trail

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The next southbank arts trail is 10+11 May (plus 9 May when lots of us simply get together to drink red wine surrounded by art!). This wi...
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

autographs

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I came across my old autograph book last weekend – containing football autographs of Division One team players from 1957-1958 (yes, I know…)...
Saturday, March 08, 2008

kielder challenge

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We started “training” for this year’s Kielder Challenge event yesterday. I absolutely love it! We’d selected four pupils from our school and...
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Friday, March 07, 2008

foundation again

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The wonderful Bruce Stanley has posted some lovely words and images of last week’s Foundation little/medium service on his embody website. ...
Monday, March 03, 2008

foundation

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Excellent “medium” service at foundation last night. It included watching clips from the film “Babette’s Feast”, eating, drinking and passi...
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Sunday, March 02, 2008

eastville park

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We’ve had good friends Felicity+Chris (and their dog!) staying with us over the weekend and seem to have spent a huge amount of the time sin...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

oriel glass

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On our way home from Oxford on Sunday afternoon, we passed a new building on Victoria Street in Bristol. In the reception area, there’s a st...
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Monday, February 25, 2008

oxford

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Enjoyed a really lovely, relaxing weekend in Oxford with great friends Gail+Ian and Ken+Debby. Chilled out over food+wine on Friday evening....
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

….and chilling at the seaside

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After a few hours in Bath early on Monday, I drove to the coast and enjoyed a couple of hours in Clevedon. The sun was shining, there were h...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

virgin media

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For the past few days, we’ve had intermittent loss of our e-mails and it’s fast becoming a joke (but I’m not laughing!). We now get a situat...
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chilling in bath (literally)

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The weather forecast was for another beautiful day, so I decided to get up very early yesterday and drive to Bath with my camera. Arrived we...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

dream team

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In the past, I’ve often talked about people making it into my “dream team”. People I’ve admired; people who have fascinated, entertained or ...
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bigdaddystevieB
Bristol, United Kingdom
Married to Moira with three daughters (Ruth, Hannah and Alice) and six grandchildren (Ursula, Jemima, Rosa, Dan, Iris and Mikey). Former architect and also worked with young people in education in recent years... now just a retired slacker.
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