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Flowers for Sarah
In peace and not far away
It was with great sadness to attend the funeral of Sarah Mount on Friday in Sheffield although it is with great gladness to have known her.

Her wishes were not to talk of her in hushed tones and to celebrate her life on that day. Well Sarah, I certainly did that. I stopped off in Kenilworth and stayed at the Loch Fyne hotel there. In celebration I thought it fitting to order the seafood platter for two, although it was only me, and a nice bottle of Sancerre. I scoffed the lot and raised a glass to you.

I never did drink the Remy Martin nightcap, but what I did do was go to the car and get my Kit Kat as I thought I would have the munchies late at night but then ended up going to the Chinese takeaway next door and ordered a Special Chow Mein as I was still starving! Well Sarah, I had a good night in your honour.

Don't worry, we will look after Paul and the children.

with parents at louvre
At the Louvre with parents
Had a good few days in Paris meeting up with Graham and my parents. It was pretty sunny and warm and we did enough sightseeing and walking around to last us till next year.

The Euro/Sterling exchange rate is so bad. Everything was so expensive. OK, being Paris might have been part of it but it did make your eyes water when a can of coke was 4 euro at times and a large beer 8 euro.

And to the pickpocketeer, who I doubt will be reading this so this is purely for my own gratification, I hope you flashed the cash about a bit too much yourself and got done in by your lowlife scummers.

Someone mentioned about having some wine and food down on the Left bank and I didn't get what he meant. When we were on the river boat we saw loads of people sitting on the concrete river bank, bottle of wine opened, cheeses and bread out, all just enjoying a relaxed picnic. How bloody civilised. Looked fun.

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Marriott Hotel
Free food, for us anyway.
Free food at the Marriott Hotel

We had a pleasant surprise in the offer of a complimentary meal with wine from the Sales & Marketing Co-ordinator at the Bournemouth Marriot Hotel.

Looking forward to it as the menu looks right up our street. Lots of seafood....

We will of course be doing a review for this website. In the meantime you can check out their web site: Highcliff Grill

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