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Friday, April 05, 2002
Elveden Forest Fire"Girls, come and look at this!" Hannah and Daisy came running and huddled around my screen to see the Center Parcs Holiday Village in flames. The Elveden Forest complex had been a favourite holiday destination of ours. The BBC news report said the fire had started in a catering block, and pictures taken from a familiar vantage point revealed the skeletal framework of the gutted, domed plaza. This was the place, where in 1995, I discovered the internet and took time out to make an important career change. Then, four years later returned with my family on the brink of separation and divorce at another pivotal time in my life. So naturally, seeing the place in flames touched me personally in a strange cathartic kind of way.
posted by Paul Fillingham at 12:18 PM
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Thursday, April 04, 2002
A gift from CornwallIt was a relief to get back to Nottingham in the early hours of Wednesday morning, following a pretty stormy couple of days down in Falmouth, Cornwall. The girls enjoyed the trip but it was a pretty fraught affair coping with a rather unsettled baby. Nottingham by contrast has been enjoying a spring heatwave, and we even got into the garden yesterday. This sounds idylic, but actually involved clearing several months worth of dog shit from the back lawn before I could even begin to cut it. Domestic chores such as these helped detract from the unpleasant sensations associated with sickness and diahorrea - a gift from Cornwall.
posted by Paul Fillingham at 11:02 AM
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