Month: January 2007

  • Friends are we.

    Here is a great piccy of Stan and I. We became friends in infant school at Creswell in 1951. Stan was my protector from all those playground bullies (well he is 6 months older than me which at 60 is nothing but at 5 is like a lot!!). We shared a huge number of experiences…

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  • Friends are we.

    Here is a great piccy of Stan and I. We became friends in infant school at Creswell in 1951. Stan was my protector from all those playground bullies (well he is 6 months older than me which at 60 is nothing but at 5 is like a lot!!). We shared a huge number of experiences…

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  • Les Gets Estate Agency survey

    Decided to take a break from the iceboarding today and do a little survey of all the estate agents, with high street offices, here in Les Gets (74260) France. I found 10 unique agents in 11 locations. Here are snaps with their phone numbers and website links. Click the agency name or image to access…

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  • Les Gets Estate Agency survey

    Decided to take a break from the iceboarding today and do a little survey of all the estate agents, with high street offices, here in Les Gets (74260) France. I found 10 unique agents in 11 locations. Here are snaps with their phone numbers and website links. Click the agency name or image to access…

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  • Snow in Les Gets? Must be last year!

    Here is a great photo taken outside my apartment in Les Gets in March 2006. (Thanks Kevin & Louise) Currently the same view is green grass with not a speck of snow. Please don’t laugh, tonight we are promised 1/2 inch of snow at the mid station 🙁 However, according to Jean-Michel at The Boomerang…

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  • Snow in Les Gets? Must be last year!

    Here is a great photo taken outside my apartment in Les Gets in March 2006. (Thanks Kevin & Louise) Currently the same view is green grass with not a speck of snow. Please don’t laugh, tonight we are promised 1/2 inch of snow at the mid station 🙁 However, according to Jean-Michel at The Boomerang…

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  • GPS walking errors

    As a little experiment I set myself a little walking route around the back of the apartment on the slopes of Mont Chery and then uploaded it to the GPS. I then tried following the route, with no map, just using the GPS. When I returned I downloaded where I had walked. The image shows…

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  • GPS walking errors

    As a little experiment I set myself a little walking route around the back of the apartment on the slopes of Mont Chery and then uploaded it to the GPS. I then tried following the route, with no map, just using the GPS. When I returned I downloaded where I had walked. The image shows…

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  • A lovely of Ellee’s

    My star blogging protege Ellee is really riding high. Here are some comments culled from the internet today:- Paul Newman 43 year old Islington resident and London Conservative Mayor hopeful writes his thoughts and says:- 4 Ellee- I sometimes find Elee a bit alarmingly left wing…well compared to me anyway!! . She does like her…

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  • No snow Sunday in Les Gets

    Looking back from the Nauchets Express into the Ranfoilly bowl. Remmants of artificial snow only. But the lifts are open with the Bruyere run into the village just about open and the Violettes run to the Nauchets still passable. Looking up the Gazelle black run on Mont Chery – not a spec of snow anywhere.…

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