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Miss Direction
I like this picture, I was actually trying to catch the acrobatic squirrel which is currently raiding Angela-next-door’s peanut feeder, but this shows just how well camouflaged a wee ball of yellow and blue feathers can be in a bare November garden. He’s in the cotoneaster. Incidentally, I was eating my cranberry scone at Vane…
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Peanuts
Today our helpful computer, via WikiHow, advised me that this is National Peanut Butter Month. What, may I ask, is the point of telling me that on the 20th? That’s 19 whole days down the drain!!!! Admittedly for 7 of those I have been almost completely disinterested in food, but that is just so not…
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Hors de combat
Sunday finds your correspondent in the grip of a mystery ailment, I won’t go into details but it’s like having three different things wrong with you at once. However, baby Callum is here telling stories.
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Post Slaley Post
First class. Another week in Northumberland, one of the country’s unsung jewels. Even although the weather was atrocious for most of the time, we blethered, cooked, swam and shopped. It’s a tremendous getaway, what with the quizzes and bingo, we love it.
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Eye wish
Am currently shopping around for a new pair of spectacles now that my prescription has changed. I cannot believe how much variance there is between shops. At no time did I ever believe the “get a pair for £50” signs in the window but when you come out of the shop with a quote for…
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It’s the most wonderful day of the year …
… not. I truly cannot be doing with this daylight saving tish-tosh. Last year, for the first time ever, probably because of the dreadful winter, I understood what people meant by missing the sunlight. For that reason and many others I have taken advantage of our office’s extended membership of the National Galleries. The plan…
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Spinal tap
Tonight I went along to my Pilates class feeling like death warmed up. I am on holiday next week and am rather busy making sure that all my work tasks are up to speed. Every night this week I have fallen into bed and snored through to 6 a.m. The dark nights are also having…
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Gulls
Some gull pictures from yesterday, taken at Burleigh Sands on the north shore of Loch Leven.
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Netiquette
It’s difficult when I am excited about going somewhere not to rave on about it here, since it’s fairly dumb to advertise when we will be away. It all has a fairly retrospective feel to it. So, I can’t tell you about our upcoming holiday which will be sometime this year, somewhere in England, or…
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Animal Farm
It chuffing well is in here, the house could simply not cope with the addition of one more stuffed toy or ornithological ornament So welcome then to Orwell*, the latest badger in the sett, and just as a test I am going to upload a video of him and me**, with guest cameo appearance by…