Tag Archives: holidays

Up, up and away

Posted on April 26, 2024 by WeeKeef

I have never understood the thinking behind the early morning pint (or similar) at an airport before getting on a plane to parts foreign. The issue raised its head earlier this month when Mrs WeeKeef and I escaped the miserable … Continue reading →

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Daisy Daisy

Posted on June 30, 2023 by WeeKeef

We are nearing the end of a very pleasant week in North Yorkshire, exploring the moors and the spectacular coast around Robin Hood’s Bay, Whitby and Staithes. Our base for the week has been a really lovely rental property – … Continue reading →

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Dutch treat

Posted on October 11, 2022 by WeeKeef

I don’t understand algorithms. I mean, I know what they are for and, in general, how they work, but the cunning little bits of code lurking behind internet algorithms sometimes leave me nonplussed. Take Spotify, for example. Do you use … Continue reading →

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Home and Away

Posted on August 31, 2022 by WeeKeef

Like many before us, Mrs WeeKeef and I have plans to travel a bit in our retirement. Nothing too epic: we are not Marco Polo. But a round-trip taking in visits to both of our siblings in parts far-flung is … Continue reading →

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You’re not the boss of me

Posted on April 28, 2022 by WeeKeef

For the past 43 years, 3 weeks and 4 days I have been a civil servant. A government official. Or, as somebody once described me (wrongly) on the front page of a national newspaper, a “mendacious mandarin”. In that time … Continue reading →

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Yorker

Posted on February 16, 2022 by WeeKeef

A few years back Mrs WeeKeef and I had a very nice trip to York. A beautiful city just the right size for a bit of a wander. Yesterday, exactly seven years to the day later, we again boarded a … Continue reading →

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The Madding Crowd

Posted on July 22, 2020 by WeeKeef

Mrs WeeKeef and I would normally be off on holiday at this time of the year. Somewhere foreign and interesting. Like Berlin or Montreal. Or Chipping Norton. This year was going to be different. This year we could go anywhere … Continue reading →

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Nopera

Posted on March 14, 2020 by WeeKeef

Back in 1972 the treasures of Tutankhamun’s tomb were displayed at the British Museum in a major exhibition. My school organised a trip to London to see them but I, being the unadventurous type, decided to stay home. Forty-eight years … Continue reading →

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Bye-Bye Europe

Posted on October 5, 2019 by WeeKeef

I was twelve years old when I first engaged with things European. The move up to secondary school brought with it the need to learn a foreign language and, having expressed no preference, I was randomly selected to study Spanish. … Continue reading →

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Travelling man

Posted on July 6, 2018 by WeeKeef

I would never describe myself as “intrepid”. Once, many years ago, I was offered a free sample of some new aftershave or other, with the advertising tag line “For the man who likes to live on the edge”. My Ex … Continue reading →

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Stow it

Posted on August 4, 2014 by WeeKeef

In an undoubted first for this blog, and probably a last, I am writing this some 35,000 feet above the North Atlantic. Myself, Mrs WeeKeef and Boy 3 (of 3) have just spent 18 excellent days taking in the joys … Continue reading →

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Complete bankers

Posted on December 23, 2012 by WeeKeef

Irritated this morning by the news from a friend on holiday in Canada.  Apparently she and her son have been there all of three days before her bank here in the UK (Tesco) see fit, without any warning whatsoever, to … Continue reading →

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Diamond

Posted on June 2, 2012 by WeeKeef

Once again the armchair revolutionaries are up in arms and I find myself a bit sad that there’s so much anti-Jubilee grumbling going on.  Her Maj has been on the throne for 60 years and that is historic whichever way … Continue reading →

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Surrendering to France

Posted on October 25, 2011 by WeeKeef

Up until this year I had only been in France twice.  The first time was a short visit to Paris – and the last trip the Ex and I ever made together.  The second time was a week in a … Continue reading →

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You say you want a revolution

Posted on April 29, 2011 by WeeKeef

For some days, weeks and months the more churlish amongst us have been complaining that they don’t give a rats ass about the Royal Wedding.  As predicted by yours truly some 6 months ago, there has been a noticable upsurge … Continue reading →

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The Girl with the Pain in the Arse

Posted on April 25, 2011 by WeeKeef

I don't often give up on books or films half way through, but there are always exceptions.  I've tried and tried to like Doris Lessing, for example, but I just can't.  And don't even get me started on Baz Luhrmann: first up against … Continue reading →

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Turn left at the next exit

Posted on December 15, 2010 by WeeKeef

When I become Emperor of the Known Universe there is a list of things which I intend to ban almost immediately. High up on that list are: Salt and Vinegar crisps; Bruce Forsyth; and Satellite Navigation Systems The reasons for … Continue reading →

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I bet it’s not snowing in Malta

Posted on November 29, 2010 by WeeKeef

So, while we are on the subject of things Nationalist, tomorrow is St Andrew’s Day.  Not something that normally sits high in my priorities but, back in 2007, the Braw Leader decided that we should all have a public holiday … Continue reading →

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A Rye smile

Posted on August 6, 2009 by WeeKeef

I have to admit that I have never used an internet cafe before this week, and it’s an interesting experience – mainly due to my fellow cafe-goers.  And too much background reggae for my liking, but there you go. Anyway, here … Continue reading →

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Training

Posted on June 23, 2009 by WeeKeef

Yay, we finally got the finger out and have booked a summer holiday.  Not till the end of July but that’s not too far away.  Edinburgh – Sussex – Amsterdam – Sussex – Edinburgh.  All by train.  Twelve trains.  Better … Continue reading →

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