Battlesbridge Day with Mama

This blog entry, apart from a way to distract myself from the mystery film Adrian is watching on the television, is also a break from The Boracay Blog series (alleluiah!).

I had to. I was scrounging and looking for the snorkelling pics in my drive, just for some sequence of the blogs, but its not to be found until tonight. So instead of putting it up, i am putting this up instead.


The relief of finding the Boracay albums (which i thought i've lost) reminded me of the relief i had when i had some of Mama's albums retrieved by a genius named Robert. (Robert is a close friend of my brother who maintains everyone's computers in the family).


In October last year, when my Mama was here visiting me, i suddenly had my computer crash on me--in the middle of a big assignment. The assignment was essentially finished but the recent photos from mine and Mama's painting the town red, were not saved on my external hardrive that time yet.


Adrian tried his utmost best to recover the photos (and the documents). He also went to three different computer specialists--all of them charged enormously, but only to recover the default "saved pictures" folder which you can get any other windows operated laptop.


My brother suggested that he will bring the burnt drive to Robert when he goes home in December as it was deemed dead and null, what have i got to lose? Mama was sad that her photos were lost (thank goodness that iv'e saved some on blogs and Flickr and Facebook), and we thought that was the end of the tunnel.


When we followed my family in December, there was the usual jubilation of seeing families, and more than that, the great astonishment that the once declared dead hardrive is still deemed unusable--but has successfully given birth to wonderful photos, and documents that i grieved and mourned for begrudgingly many a nights..All photos (and yes, documents!) intact.


So let me declare hereon that Robert is a genius. and he is your man. Not only is he a good laugh, and a wonderful person (and dad to baby Amor), he doesnt charge hell too.

But let me confirm that, He might have just been giving us leeeway because we feed him endless of Mama's adobo, and ply him with good old Red Horse, so he can sing to his hearts content in the karaoke.


So yeah, i think i just made the biggest and longest incoherent introduction to a blog ever,



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Battlesbridge, is a town where you would go if you want to go antiquing if you live down our way. Im sure alot of dealers come to Battlesbridge too as i could see the auction signs for dealers and sellers, but as far as i know that there are also so many towns in England that sells antiques (the whole country is antique FCOL).





photography fanatics: weep and drool (expensive but worth accummulating)


it was such a cold day, but we braved the place.. i realised i didnt take much photos of the antiques this time than the last time i went there with just me and the husband,and when we took Ana with us.


i did however took photos of the very cute attic tea room.






























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Have a blessed week all of you dropping by this space.

And that may all of you find something precious you have misplaced/lost in your homes.