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Monthly Archives: December 2011

GRAFHAM WATER

30 Friday Dec 2011

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Am at Grafham Water and this is one of my many favourites! There is just something very special about the layout, the welcome and location close to the enormous reservoir. It is a Caravan Club site and very popular with members.

It is a site for the walker and the natural history lover – an owl adopted the site many years ago!!

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The small village of Grafham is just half a mile away and although it has no pubs or shops it does have an excellent Indian restaurant – The Cinnamon.

May I wish you all a very Happy New Year.

Christopher Macgowan
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BOND, JAMES BOND…

22 Thursday Dec 2011

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If you’re in need of some winter entertainment, it’s hard to beat hanging out with 50 cars from the James Bond movies. On January 17, the Bond In Motion exhibition will open up at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu. The exhibition runs until next December so plenty of time to see some of the finest machines ever to appear on film – it’s the largest exhibition of its kind staged anywhere in the world, so Britain is indeed blessed.

Some of the cars that will be on show have only ever been seen by the public in the movies. They include the grunty Ford Mustang Mach 1 from Diamonds Are Forever, the Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II as driven by the evil Zukovsky on The World Is Not Enough and a retro classic, the 1962 Roller that was pushed into a lake with Bond still inside in A View To A Kill.

As well as 50 awesome automobiles, there will be some other Bond curiosities on display such as the burial-at-sea bed from You Only Live Twice, the Union Jack parachute and surfboard with concealed weapons from Die Another Die (shame about the rubbish song) and the Casino Royale plane based on a Boeing 747 and the original “Pig” used to smuggle Koskov through a Siberian pipeline in The Living Daylights (not one of the best Bond films but the Pig was a cool idea).

It all sounds like a ton of fun and a TotallyMotor road trip to Beaulieu could well be on the cards, ideally in an Aston Martin…

Christopher Macgowan
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

18 Sunday Dec 2011

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Wishing you a very Happy Christmas and New Year!

Christopher

A COLD DAY IN FELSTED.

10 Saturday Dec 2011

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Difficult to beat these really cold days in the run up to Christmas!!

The ice never left the puddles, even the birds are staying in the hedgerows and yet all day there has been been a brilliant blue sky with non-stop sunshine. Essex has its critics but I feel we are doing better than Scotland on the weather front and I will happily put up with the constant Towie criticism!!

I have read a lot of praise for The Caravan Club’s annual booking day on Wednesday of this week and I can join in that praise. I wanted to get four bookings in on very specific dates in 2012 and by 10.30am I had all four – at Chatsworth, Broadway, Houghton Mill and Baltic Wharf.

Christopher Macgowan
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