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Saturday 15th December 2007
M****'s Birthday
     
The previous day (Friday) we drove over from Lancaster to Keswick, taking it easy on the motorway, as the car seems to be burning up a lot of engine oil at the moment. Then, Saturday afternoon, we went over for lunch at Lemon & Lime (?!). Somewhere like that anyway. We would have gone to Maysons (just down the road from Lemon & Lime and just visible in the fourth picture along here, to the very right of the photo) but they were full. But not to worry - the food at Lemon & Lime was gorgeous and the service very good.
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. . . and then, as these pictures probably make clear, we went for a walk around the edge of Derwent Water, feeding some ducks, posing for photos, that kind of thing.
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. . . and then more of lake, duck, sun, etc. I feel like that guy in the light green coat kind of spoiled things by deciding to turn around, directly facing the camera and remaining as such for several minutes. Grrrrr. As ever, if there's several photographs here that look vaguely similar, it's because I couldn't decide which one I preferred, so I figure I might as well leave 'em all in.
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That was weird. I was writing something here . . . well, perhaps it was of little consequence what I was writing (and this is?) and perhaps the stuff I was writing was primarily to sort the formatting out and remove some white space, blah blah blah. But then I must have clicked the right mouse button in the wrong way or something and the window closed. All gone.
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That's Antony and then a group shot of everyone and a couple of A******. However, the light was all in the wrong place for the group shot and the camera was caught a bit unawares. The other picture (third from left) is my vague attempt to use some digital manipulation to try to sort out the contrast/brightness. A****** enjoyed running around the Ruskin statue, and saying hello to whoever was on the other side.
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Then, with everyone now in attendance, we had dinner in the evening followed by birthday cake. I foolishly put a few too many candles on the cake, but I'm guessing the correct amount were blown out during the first attempt.
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The yellow card that Mouse is holding being something to do with a round of 'Indian Poker' we had (where, for once, I wasn't the last one out) lacking, as we did, either Post-It notes or Rizlas.
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