May 2008

Last Updated:  22/06/08

 

We trundled over to Old Warden for the Bank Holiday weekend to see the air display - mostly comprising the fantastic Shuttleworth Collection.  While we were in the area, we also went to Blenheim Palace, where there was jousting and a birds of prey display.  The weather was perfect all weekend!

 

Mum came to visit, and we spent the weekend at the fabulous Cedar Falls health spa (where they do indeed serve alcohol*, and wonderful food), for some much needed R&R.  The treatments we had were really good, and the self-defence class was definitely a good experience ;)    We left feeling very relaxed and refreshed, and wishing we could afford to go every month!

 

Apart from buying and testing a new BBQ, the other main thing to note for May was that we received a free gift from National Geographic.  It is possibly not quite as inappropriate a gift as the crappy free sunglasses that came with last month's Harpers Bazaar, in terms of readership demographic... but even so... are there really people this big, and with so little sense of colour?

 

*Naturally, we checked this before we booked in

 



SHUTTLEWORTH

 

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Boo!

Vintage Cars at Shuttleworth

 

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On to Blenheim Palace, and the birds of prey
 
CEDAR FALLS

Mum outside Cedar Falls

 

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On the driveway up to the main house at Cedar Falls

Very relaxing...

 

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... and picturesque

For the first time in months, I actually had time to sit down and read a magazine...

 

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A meditation area, near the natural therapies treatment rooms

 

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Mum and I, after several treatments and a makeover (and a swim)

 

The main building

 

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Tom tries out the new BBQ

What's he going to do with that??!

 

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dishing out the food (very nice stuff from the local farm shop :) )

 
THE FREE GIFT

Yes, Tom and I are both inside the free fleece from National Geographic...

 

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...and there's room left over, if anyone wants to join us

 

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Thankfully, we subscribe to NG for the photos and articles, not the free gifts...!

 

 

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