We have recently finished adding a new flat screen TV with built in digital Freeview and a DVD to Room 3 as well as having a major overhaul of the bathroom in that room. It now looks absolutely fantastic with a tiled floor and walls, great new shower and a new water saving toilet.
I would like to add my own tribute to a “brave” builder who was stabbed to death after chasing bag-snatchers in east London. He was a credit to our country and our society. I hope that given the same circumstances I would be as brave as this man.
Sukhwinder Singh, 31, was attacked on Friday as he pursued two men who had mugged a 28-year-old woman in Barking.
Mr Singh died at the Royal London Hospital. A post mortem test showed he died from a stab wound to the heart.
Barking councillor Nirmal Singh Gill said: “He would help anybody so it doesn’t surprise me he was trying to help a lady.”
He continued: “He didn’t deserve this – but he was a special young man.
“It’s a very big loss to everyone both here and in India.”
Police said father-of-one Mr Singh was an Indian national who had lived in the UK for about 10 years.
It is really rather cold here in Windsor, snow is on the ground and temperature during the day is about zero…. we are NOT used to this and my poor wife is hating it!
This picture of frost happened the other week and I’ve never seen anything like it before….
Frost on leaf
Whilst I have found out snippets of the past (which are covered on the main web site in more detail) I have just been informed by my friend Neil that the following site has a picture of Langton House as used in a Carry On Cabby film from 1963.
http://www.thewhippitinn.com/carry_on_film_locations/carry_on_cabby/
Great to see! If anyone ever spots any more old photos of Langton House PLEASE let me know!
This weekend 26/27 Sept has been yet again a very busy weekend for us at Langton House as well as for Windsor. On the Sunday there were 2 major sporting events, the Windsor 1/2 marathon and the Palace to Palace bike ride (45 miles – not for the faint hearted)! Both great events and well worth doing if you every think about it, but beware of the extra traffic in town.
So now they publish the claims, but what do we see…well they seem to have learnt very little, some are so blacked out as to be worthless! If this is what we are going to see in the future, they might as well carry on as before because only if they get investigated will any wrong doings come out.
I am pretty disgusted with this sort of behaviour. Do they really think we are this stupid!
This week has been so HOT it is like a full on summer! Could this be the start of a real summer and if it is then perhaps the doom and gloom of the current recession will be lifted a little as everyone feels a bit better about the world.
We wish him all the very best. He has undoubtedly got a very hard 4 years ahead of him, but if he does not get it right there will be more than just the USA in trouble.
We had a great Christmas here at Langton House – cold but lovely, in fact as I write this in early January 2009 it is still unseasonably cold at -2C and it is almost mid-day! Lucky for us it starts to warm up tomorrow to the usual temperature of about 7C which will be a lot less painful!
We don’t do this sort of cold here in the UK, and we have even had a small amount of snow, but as usual it never lasts long here, usually gone but lunchtime.
I have been using the slow period to get some decorating done about the place. A bit of fresh paint in the hallway, but I started and had forgotten how much paintwork there is about the place! The Victorian door take forever to do…I had to rope my nephew in to help me!
It was a shame that this year we did not have the outdoor ice skating rink, but we have a permanente rink in Slough just down the road, so really no excuse for not going onto the ice, and we have plenty of frozen ponds around here right now…but I guess tomorrow that will be the end of that.
This coming year looks like it may be more difficult (in a business sense) with the slowdown in the world economy, but at least the exchange rate is going to favour the rest of Europe and North America.