The day Lime saw the Dalai Lama

The day the Lime 'met' the Dalai Lama from Mrs Nev on Vimeo.


 The video was filmed on Wednesday 20 June 2012 in Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster.

Through the lens (three)

Date: 30 March 2012
Location: Tonbridge

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Through the lens (in the park)

Date: March 2012
Location: Tonbridge Racecourse Park

Through the lens (post parkrun)

Location: Riddlesdown (parkrun)
Date: 24 March 2012

[photo: Nicki Clark]

Thanks to Nicki for capturing this.

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Through the lens (The tourist shot)

Date: 18 March 2012 (Mother's Day)
Location: Parliament Street, London.

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Through the lens (St. James's Park)

Location: St. James's Park
Date: 18 March 2012 (Mother's day)

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Through the lens (nine photos at nine days)

Date: 28 August 2010
Location: Tonbridge

This is Matilda when she was just nine days old. There are some expressions here that we took for granted and then all of a sudden they were gone forever.

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Through the lens (thoughtful)

Date: November 2011
Location: Battersea Park (at the Movember 5k race)

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Through the lens (pueppi)

Location: Tonbridge
Date: 26 February 2012

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Through the lens (buggies at dawn)

Location: Tonbridge (racecourse park)
Date: January 2012

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Through the lens (Dino hat)

Location: Tonbridge
Date: January 2012

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Through the lens (a new shirt)

Location: Tonbridge
Date: January 2012

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Through the lens (the parka and dinosaur)

Location: Tonbridge
Date: January 2012

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Farewell, little car.

My car history hasn't exactly been varied. I started off with a Fiesta, then bought another Fiesta, then I wanted to go a bit faster so I bought a Fiesta XR2i, and finally I bought my current car - A fiesta!

2003

I bought that last fiesta back in 2000 - 12 years ago. Although it suited my needs for many years, but now that I am married and have a baby it no longer fits the bill. Mrs7t has been talking about getting a new car for a year or so, but I have had a hard time breaking the attachment with my little red friend.

When we reached 2012, Lime had already starting walking. I finally admitted to myself that we really did need to find a more suitable car, which we have now done. I won't talk about that car in this post, this post is purely for me to reminisce about the fab little red fiesta.

Here are a few photos of things we did with the car over the last few years..

2005 - wales, during our winter road trip

Our 2005 road trip included visits to Wales (Snowdonia / Port Merrion), Blackpool, Liverpool and Manchester.

2006 - Pen-y-pass car park before we climbed to the summit of mount Snowdon

Our first trip to climb some mountains was in 2006. In the photo above we had just arrived at Pen-Y-Pass car park and were getting ready to head along the pyg track to the summit of snowdon.

2007 - in Wales again

In 2007 we returned to Wales to climb a few more mountains.

2010 - our wedding day

After our wedding we made our own way to our reception in the car.

2010 - matilda came along [photos 2010/2011]

Once Matilda came along things started to get tricky, the car only has 2 doors. We coped for quite a while, but we knew it was only a matter of time before we would need to upgrade.

2010 - in tonbridge

As you can see, the car experienced all the fun of the snow, and in the 12 years never had any problems starting in the morning. (apart from the time that Mrs7t left the interior light on and it drained the battery - :-p )

2011 - zipping around the a roads

Unless the car was full of people and luggage, it was actually quite nippy - even though it only had a 1.25 litre engine.

2010 / 2011 / 2012 - races and parkrun

From 2010 I started running and entering races and running at parkruns. We always used to car to travel to the events.

2011 - eastbourne

We went to Eastbourne a couple of times in 2011, this is from the time that we had a big family day out there.

2011 - christmas

Christmas 2011 and we had visitors from Germany. We picked Matilda's uncle up from Gatwick and did lots of other fun things.

Just a few photos of us together in the car to finish up.

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Through the lens (Lime and her beaker)

Date: November 2011
Location: In the buggy/stroller

her favourite beaker

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Through the lens (puddles)

Date: 29 January 2012
Location: Tonbridge

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Through the lens (jus' chillin)

Christmas 2011

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Through the lens (helping with the chores)

Date: 8 January 2012
Location: Home

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