For the first time since I was about twelve I celebrated a birthday with parties of a sort. On the Saturday prior I invited seven local friends and their families to join me and remarkably all said yes... there was me with a whole line up of substitutes and none got the call. Now, clearly, if I didn't invite you and you're fairly local then you were eighth on my list, promise.
Anyway, since my sister moved back to the UK we've travelled over numerous times to see her in South Wimbledon / Raynes Park, and driven past Fish! Kingston every time. I love fish, and having looked at the website it was a no-brainer.. top quality fish and chips plus other fishy dishes, mmm. As it was the food was exceptional, even better than I had dreamed! And the company, wow, wonderful, a lovely collection of people that I would spend the rest of my days with, thank you for coming out!
The following Saturday it was back to Suffolk to celebrate with my mum, Cheryl's mum and sister plus two. Tilly's, Halesworth is a 1920's themed tea shop. They recently started serving Friday and Saturday dinners and these were just as incredible. Brilliant grub and it looks like we'll be returning for mum's 80th in the new year: result!
As part of the celebrations I did some drawing:
I also tried to find 50 things I love but went slightly over..
Board Games
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Books
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Film
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Food & Drink
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Miscellaneous
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Music
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Music (cont.)
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Places
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Agricola
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The Archbishop’s Children
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Woody Allen
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Beef Brisket
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Apple Mac
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4AD
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Stephen Jones
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Alte Lohnhalle
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Andean Abyss
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S T Coleridge
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Luc Besson
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Bread
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Arsenal
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‘A User’s Guide’
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Jay Jay Johanson
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Berlin
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Boggle
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Norman Collins
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The Big Blue
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Cauliflower
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Badminton
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Barry Adamson
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‘Love My Way’
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Bracken
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Bruges
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Dictionaries
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The Billion Dollar Hotel
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Champagne
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Kevin Beattie
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And Also The Trees
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Billy MacKenzie
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Bushey Park
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Carcassonne
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The End of the Affair
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Blue Velvet
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Cheddar
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Blessings Roses
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‘As Requested’ / ‘Mean Streak’
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‘Making Plans For Nigel’
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Dresden
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The Castles of Mad King Ludwig
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Richard Ford
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Caos Calmo
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Cheesecake
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Blossom
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Belasco
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’Malicious Love’
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Firenze
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Codenames
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Frederick Forsyth
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Frank Capra
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Chick Peas
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Cricket
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The Beloved
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‘Mesopotamia’
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Forests
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Stefan Feld
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Double Indemnity
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Chocolate
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Driving
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Bjork
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Mew
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Fuchsias
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Glass Road
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Jean Genet
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L’Enfer
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Crumble
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Gerbils
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Broken Family Band
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Morrissey
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Hills
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Le Havre
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Graham Greene
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Foreign Land
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Epoises
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Hedgehogs
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The Cure
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Conor Oberst
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Lakes
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Hawaii
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Samantha Harvey
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The Hairdresser’s Husband
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Fish & Chips
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David Hockney
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‘Damaged Goods’
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The Passage
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Le Havre
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Hive
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Susan Hill
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Gruyere
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Ikea
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’Dear Heart’
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John Peel
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London
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Kiesling & Kramer
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Babs Horton
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Jim Jarmusch
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Jacket Potatoes
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Ipswich Town
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‘East St O’Neill’
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Placebo
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Lugano
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Lewis & Clark
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In The Springtime of the Year
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Kitchen Stories
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Kleftiko
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Just One Sentence
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David Eugene Edwards
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‘Postcard’
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Normandie
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Memoir 44
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John Keats
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Fritz Lang
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Lemon Sole
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Charles Rennie MacIntosh
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Dead Kennedys
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Silversun Pickups
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Otranto
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Ora & Labora
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The Last Letter From Your Lover
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Leaving
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Malbec
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Margaret Merrell Roses
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Annie Eve
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‘Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others’
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Portman Road
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Railways of the World
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Henning Mankel
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My Life As A Dog
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Panna Cotta
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Claude Monet
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Gene
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‘The Song From Under The Floorboards’
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Soldeu
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Rialto
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Moscow 2042
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Paris
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Pasta
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August Rodin
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Vic Godard
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Spearmint
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Stockholm
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Uwe Rosenberg
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Jojo Moyes
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Manuel Poirier
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Rice
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Scottish Terriers
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‘Headache (for Michelle)’
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David Sylvian
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Streams
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Splendor
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Haruki Murakami
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Jean Renoir
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Rosemary
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Alfred Sisley
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'Heaven Sent’
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Tracey Thorn
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Suffolk
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Ticket to Ride
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Ivan Turgenev
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Russian Ark
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Rib Eye Steak
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Snow
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Kristen Hersh
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Tricky
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Tarn Hows
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Tinner’s Trail
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Mario Vargas Llosa
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Trop Belle Pour Toi
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Salice Salentino
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Swatch
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‘I Don’t Even Know If I Should Call You Baby’
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The Unthanks
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Trees
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Tzolk’in, the Mayan Calendar
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William Shakespeare
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Western
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Scallops
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Swimming
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Idlewild
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The Villagers
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Worlingham
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Twilight Struggle
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The Wilderness
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Young and Innocent
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Whisky
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Frans Thijssen
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The Incredible Shrinking Dickies
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M Ward
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Zurich
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