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Category: Friends

  • Christmas Eve Eve

    Yesterday I could not log in, so I sent this out, but with a different picture. Grand day yesterday with old chums Diana, Caroline, Nigel, Emily & Julia. Lots of scones. A Poem There’s something up with banthewasp My website does not know me It’s quoting Errors, turns its back And says I’m not a…

  • On the Road

    Just a brief update, back from our weekend in Beadnell with Team Discovery and although none of us have our woes to seek, it was a very pleasant time spent together.  Due to a fractional split in the space time continuum coinciding with a wormhole, the men won the quiz.  But the women were runners…

  • Life cycles

    Pause for reflection.   Our thoughts are with Diana just now.   Moving on, Ban the Wasp is thrilled to announce the arrival of Miss Lily Alaine Cook, born 28th September 2013.   She has the best big brother in Callum Fraser Cook, and we’re looking forward to getting to know her. Autumn is hurtling in…

  • Difficult stuff

    Everyone, if you are far away from those you love, or if you are close to them and having an argument, just stop for thirty seconds and remember why you love them.  And tell them.  

  • Bucket List

    Hear yourself singing on the radio.  Check. Thanks Mincers and Pedro. More to follow, been a bit out of it yet again, but coming through on the coat tails of the usual suspects.

  • Dereliction of duty

    Poor old BTW always seems to suffer in the summer, seems we must be making good use of that extra day light after all.  The birds all seem to disappear for several weeks round about now, but they’re back with a vengeance;  from the upstairs office window I have just watched a flock of blue…

  • Ages

    I tried to upload some pictures from last Saturday’s very successful gala day in the Bay, the sun shone down, some might say mercilessly, but that would be churlish.  But just in case you are interested, I have noted (way) below the chief reasons why I don’t like sunny days.  Anyway, back to the gala,…

  • January

    So. Yes. Anyone who knows me and my family will know what’s going on just now. But, onto other news. Mincers are in the production room,  finalising the tracks and just amazed at the capabilities of the producer, Michael.   Thanks are also due to Steve and Audrey, with everything happening in their world they…

  • Within reach

    Last night our office’s contact centre hosted telephone donation calls for  BBC Children in Need, as well as running a host of fund raising activities.  It was a busy old day, which could have gone either way, especially when we discovered that there were no winning tickets at all in the bucket for the tombola. …

  • Darkness stalks the earth

    There is nothing I can say about the current dismal weather that will make one whit of difference, so I shan’t bother. Instead, we have been out and about; last weekend our intrepid traveller friend Rieko visited from Tokyo via London, and we went to see jousting at Linlithgow (noisy), the Falkirk Wheel (round), Brit…