November 1st

Wedding Anniversary, 17 years! Posh dinner with friends due in evening (Aedile Lodge Ladies Festival) Champagne just after breakfast, into Bournemouth (you really should have read Octobers page) shopping, Ted was going to buy a suprise present, Des miss read the situation, ended up with nothing apart from the huge bunch of flowers.....

Played in the Hotel pool all afternoon, Des finally wearing the one piece swimming costume I bought her in the spring.........

November 2nd

Went to Poole Harbour before heading home, The redevelopment is starting to look good, the water looked inviting, i could easily gone for a sail if invited.

Then the long drive home!! Plus down to the coast to pick up Cassie the Bag from Jeanette & Brian's.

November 3rd

November 7th

Des had another outing paid for by a supplier at Lashings Bar in Maidstone. Ted went to see friends and got back to Maidstone just in time to pick Des up, at 12:40 .......

November 8th

Curry night!! Ted cooks several nice curries, Des does a couple more, and Darren 'n' Stephanie (Number 5 is Alive!!) and Vic 'n' Kev come round to help us eat it.

November 9th

Curry for Tea!! Nice! We'd been shopping at Ashford, got Des some slippers, new jeans and a coat. Ted made do with a new Jumper thingy and some slippers (protects the carpet....from what??)

November 10th

Des's work mates get curry for lunch..... Ted drives to Chester for a training course.

Craxton Hall Hotel, not bad as things go, great leisure club, nice room (shame about the tiling in the bath room) tasty meals, but rather "Nouveau" I wanted some veggies with my food - not just as company (sorry people sad joke)

November 11th

Ted Drives Home from Chester. Whoa am I glad I've got ABS on this car, the lady who nearly parked in my boot via the central reservation, the lane inside us, the central reservation again on the M6 .... didn't. Well done lady! you had me more than worried for a few moments.

November 12th

November 13th

Anni's birthday... Committee meeting in the evening after which Ted, John the Bassman and David Planner went to the Queen Victoria, no not the one in Albert Square but the one in London SE1, where we spent a nice evening in a real traditional pub, no theme just booze, good company and a conversation with the locals, JtB used to be a regular when he work near by. Fab pub Pat, please don't change it too much.

November 15th

Over to John the Bassman & the lovely Glenda's for supper ...they announced their intention to sell up and move to Spain as soon after Christmas as possible. Well we knew it was coming but still quite sudden.

After supper we all went up to the Selsdon Park to have a quick look at the band who are booked to do the Ladies Festival I'm responsible for. They looked good so they are booked.

November 16th

Down to the sea side for Anni's house warming come Birthday Lunch Party. Nice laid back kind of event. Had to slip off early as I had a presentation to finish

November 17th

Regional Meeting 9am Slough, about halfway round the M25, left home at 7:30 fair journey, until the A3 junction, arrived at 9:30... late again. As ever meeting over runs .. M25 @ 5:00 pm is even worse, it's now raining, home just before 7:30.

November 19th

There I was swimming up and down in the gym's pool and I went and cut my toes on a sharp bit of tile. Blood all over the sauna, took a while to clean it up too. The good news is they did a proper job of dealing with a blood spill.

November 21st

It has been unusually warm this week so far, 16C plus at times, but the weather certainly change overnight last night, grey horrid rain, much cooler yeuch, too wet to take the dog for a walk, I sat in and watched the Matrix for the first time (sad git the sequel is out on DVD) well it was better than watching "BBC Children In Need" which was very "amateur night at the students union" this year ... ie CARP.

November 22nd

Rain Rain Rain....... grey horrid day, good news Des has gone shopping so a chance to update the site, 10 days in one sitting. I'll do the eJTV update next .... then I might do some stuff about the good ol days when the world was young, the sun always shone.....

November 23rd

As usual I ran out of time to do stuff about the Good Ol' Days but I will soon ... I was prompted to do some G O D stuff as a result of going past the 4th Gillingham Sea Scouts Hut and finding it locked up and behind a tall fence ...... Sent an email to the last listed GSL on the Kent Scouting site.

November 24th to 28th

Long hard week training every nurse I could find at the East Surrey Hospital how to use the new FK feeding pump, I can recite the entire speil in my sleep I've said it so often.... in fact Wednesday night I was saying it in my sleep when I did the night shift!!

November 27th

Good to hear from an old boy. Yes set your mind at rest we are still up and running. Unfortunately last October the large redwood tree at the rear of the hut decided to drop one of it's branches from about 90 feet up and it went thro the roof not once but twice. Lucky for us the insurance company have at last agreed to pay for the repair estimated at about £70,000+. This is due to the fact that the upper hall as you would know was shaped asbestos and that cannot be repaired but has to be all replaced the downside is that we cannot keep the original shape but have to have conventional straight walls and a tiled roof still what we lose in character we will gain in room and dryness. It is expected to be all completed towards the end of December. We are hoping to have an old boys/leader reunion and official opening sometime early next year so if you are interested I will let you know when the date is agreed. If you have any old boys/leaders addresses or contact numbers I would be much obliged if you could let me have them.

November29th

November 30th

Des gone shopping ..... So I slipped out to buy some paper to print training certificates on. What an exciting life I'm leading.