Life Trove: Sally Saunders

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December 28, 2005

Visiting the Saunder's family at Pringle Bay

I do so love this part of the world. So many happy memories of family holidays gone by.

November 15, 2005

Sally's 21st at Llandadno Beach (Ally)

July 23, 2005

Sally comes to visit

Sally and Ally in Claire Garden, Cambridge. Ally took the day off to spend some quality time with Sally. Lovely to have her to stay for a night.

December 04, 2004

I went up to London today and had a wonderful time. I met Kerry for lunch and we went to the nearby opened Spur close to where Kerri is working for the council where she is being excruciatingly "underchallenged" . She is celebrating the fact that she's just got her "indefinite leave of stay" in the UK. Wonderful!! Then I saw Sally for a hot chocolate and jean shopping. Sally returns to Cape Town on Sunday and I'll really miss her after having her close for a year.

October 26, 2004

Sally, the jet setter

Sally has just got back from a wonderful couple of days in Prague. It was great to see all her photos. She is staying over at Chateau Brooklands till her flight to France on Wednesday. What a jet set life she is living!

October 08, 2004

Dinner at Kew Grill (Ally)

Sally has worked for Kew Grill a Anthony Warrall Thompson's resturant in the dessert section. I was determined that we should go and we certainly had a night to remember.

The starters we had were girlled mushrooms, cheese phyollo pastry and chilli squid. Then we all had steaks which would rival Barristers in every way apart from price! Sally had made all the desserts so we had every one on the menu - 6 between 5 of us and I got to have my favourite - florintene tart.

It was pure heaven and lots of laughter around the table. It was good so to get everyone together.

September 12, 2004

Visit to Buckingham Palace

We went to visit the inside of Buckingham Palace with Rosemary, Nick and Sally. Wow, what opulent banquet halls - quite exquisite. The palace has 500 rooms and 78 bathrooms, so I doubt the queen and her hubby ever have rows about who takes a shower first or who is taking up the most cupboard space.

August 02, 2004

A great day out in London

London Bridge

We decided to spend Saturday doing touristy things in London. One of Ally´s life goals was to walk across London Bridge so that was the first thing we did. Caught the tube to Tower Bridge and it was a short stroll from there. It was a gorgeous day; close to 30 degrees.

Another View

Another view of London bridge. I borrowed our camera from work (a £900 gadget with all the trimmings) so it was nice to have some optical power. The zoom on my little camera is a little limited - but then it is a tenth of the size!

Big Ben

No tourist trip through London would be complete without a photo of Big Ben so here it is - snapped from the top of our double decker bus as we whirled past (we used one of those hop on - hop off tourist buses to get around.)

Hamleys

Ah, aint the little one adorable! The little doggie is also quite cute... As you can see, next stop was Hamley's in Regent's Street. 6 floors of wonderful toys, enough to bring out the child in anybody.

The Royal Coach

We visited the Royal Mews where they keep all the horses and coaches for use in the Royal processions. The highlight was this Golden Coach immortalised in such grand processions as the Queen's inauguration and the 50th Jubilee. It was very impressive.

The coach is so heavy it can only be pulled at a walk by eight horses. The 24-foot long, four-ton coach, was built in 1760 for the then-astronomical sum of £7,562. Despite the expense, it's apparently not very comfortable if this BBC article is anything to go by.

Dinner with Sally at Belgo´s

After our sight-seeing, we met up for dinner with Sally in Covent Gardens. I haven't seen dear Sally in a while so it was great to catch up. She's working at the moment at Kew Grill as their "dessert specialist" (chocolate and almond spring roll is her most recent creation - mmmmm!) having completed a cooking course in Ireland.

Lobster!

Belgo's specialises in lobster, along with it's other Belgian delicacies like muscles and waffles. I haven't had lobster in years so succumbed to te temptation. Delicious and fun digging all the flesh out of the legs and claws with the special tool they give you.

Go, go Joseph!

After dinner, Ally and I went to watch "Joseph and his Technicoloured Dream Coat" at the New London Theatre in Covent Garden. Watching Joseph has been a life goal of Ally ever since she listened to the record as a little girl. I'd already seen the musical a couple of times but was delighted to see it again as it is one of my favourites; especially since I got to play the part of Pharoah in a school play. The show was fantastic and we both loved it. Joseph was played by H from the band, "Steps" who Ally thought was deliciously cute...

Visiting Sanjay

After Joseph, we went to visit Sanjay - a good friend who I met hiking in the Himalayas in Nepal back in 2001. He's a wonderful guy who always makes me laugh. Sanjay is a doctor specialising in Pediatrics at a local hospital. It was great to see him as always.