Garden clearance required to negotiate the staircase 
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The plants are there to break your fall when you slip on the new paint!
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The paint looks glossy but is fairly gritty. It won’t be there long anyway as I suspect that the dogs claws will wear it out pretty quickly. Also you have to be a dog to avoid the jungle obstacles!
Can’t be true. The US government says London is typical of the whole UK i.e. a nearly out-of-control hellhole. You must just have been lucky.
You should go somewhere properly safe next time. Minneapolis maybe.
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Used to go in there quite often.
A mate from the Army’s dad was a yeoman warder in the Tower and also used to do Jack the Ripper tours.
Some very good times getting to watch the ceremony of the keys then chucking loads of beer down our throats in the yeoman warders pub in the tower.
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I grew up right round the corner from where Judge Jeffries was born - the road that runs along the park there is named after him: Google Maps
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I think I visited Marco (Art of Sound forum) once who lived by Acton Gate.
Not sure what became of him. Strange chap.
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Yep, done that once as a colleagues husband was a Yeoman Guard who are also allowed to use the same pub as the Yeoman Warders. Must do some of the walks as well.
Worth watching the Lucy Worsley’s Victorian Murder Club, will finish off the last episode tonight. Lots along the river/some these pubs and Whitechapel.
Was very surprised at the New Scotland Yard basement revelation, I am very familiar with the basement in that building/s.
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That’s an understatement. Downright unpleasant man from memory (albeit not in Richard Dunn territory).
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He was a staunch antivaxer and the last I heard he was seriously ill with Covid.
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Oh dear…
According to Tony the owner of PFM, Marco contracted ‘Long Covid’ and it has pretty much incapacitated him for the past three years or more, hence AOS being a shadow of what it previously was.
Quick visit to Bampton which is apparently where scenes from Downton Abbey were filmed…
A pretty poor coffee, followed by a browse of the wares in the adjacent Antique shop. No deals were struck, so onwards.
Short drive to deepest Gloucestershire and Slad. Home of Laurie Lee and the setting for Cider With Rosie. Sweet little place perched overlooking a steep valley…
Lee’s headstone is prominently placed next to the path on the approach to the church…
Over the road is the character filled Woolpack Inn…
Well kept ale and friendly staff. Proper ol’ skool…
Then on to the Trout at Tadpole Bridge for lunch…
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I’m moving onto a new role within my firm so I’m interviewing a half dozen people next Monday and Tuesday for my current position.
This afternoon I got an invite to a meeting with a customer next Wednesday. I was expecting to get a bit of a rough time from them.
As it turns out the Head of IT I’m meeting on Wednesday is the very same chap I’m interviewing on Monday afternoon. I shall be waiting till the meeting is over before confirming who has made it through to the next round 
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As I retired recently I was involved in interviewing for my replacement.
I knew two of the applicants, one internal and one who worked in the sector.
Luckily I wasn’t on the interview panel for the second interviews.
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Terry - The Market Tavern in Bampton does nice food.
Also suggest you look at White Heart at Fyfield and the Bull at Charlbury
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It’s difficult interviewing people you have a history with, I’ve had to do it a few times. The “I’m sorry but you didn’t get the job call” can be especially awkward.
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Yep, we’ve been to The Bull, and The White Hart on previous visits*. Albeit pre COVID.
*It is only an hour up the road.
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Wow!
Congratulations
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