High-maintenance, sporting chance and fruit in foil.

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1. Caroline coming all the way back from work to bring me in.

2. The Oast Silly Sports Day created a number of extraordinary and beautiful sights -- Ellen running to victory in the egg and spoon; people wandering round with egg all over them following the egg catching competition; Oli practising wellie wanging with a pink boot (clearly worth it, because he won by a long way) and Ed hammering home in the sack race.

3. Bananas and pineapple grilled with brown sugar.

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  1. sanchosserThursday, August 17, 2006

    Remember the Rule.

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  2. Christine BorneThursday, August 17, 2006

    there's a racquetball court on my way to the train station- this morning there was a woman using her little dachsund as a ball-retrieval system. it was marvelous both in its cuteness and efficiency.

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  3. AnonymousSaturday, August 19, 2006

    Thank you for taking such ggod care of us and for playing games with us for the whole time. We really enjoyed seeing everyone and playing the silly games. We want to come back soon!

    Lots of Love

    Matthew and Olivia

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