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Murmur
Shoud you happen to spot a starling murmuration, be sure to log it here. See here if you have never heard me going on about this natural phenomenon. And here, no apologies for repeating this link. Also be sure to phone me so that I can see it too. Likewise any flocks of waxwings.…
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Degustation
Ah, foot cramp. Such an effective way of waking up, I really should market it. Just checked my last post, October 10th, crikey, we have been busy celebrating Mr Holmes’s significant birthday. As you might expect, there was a food theme here. We met John and Yvonne in Berwick, at Foxton‘s, and had lunch with…
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Discombobulated
Still with the handbag spam, pace previous, in which the grammar is appalling, even the French ones, and I always thought that with their penchant for reflexives they would do better. I was perusing the dictionary earlier, a dangerous pastime on a weekday morning, and noted that woomera is a real word, I had believed…
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The North, Circular
Affairs of the stomach much on my mind these days, so it was with rising interest that I noted a factoid from the appendices to one of my favourite books, The Poetry of Birds*. The noble bird the gannet derives its name from the Scottish word gant or gaunt which means to yawn by…
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not just me
Looking at clothing website, pretty item described as a Printed Snit. Google “Printed Snit”. Only page it shows up on is the one I am reviewing. Breathe sigh of relief.
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Tip toppermost
Recently my niece Emma (who is my favourite niece of that name) challenged me to list my top ten books via Facebook. I could no more do this than fly in the air, but I note below nine** books or groups of books, which had an impact on me that I still recall. Warning: Spoilers.…
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Taciturn
I have so much to talk about from this holiday that I will not be able to contain it to one page – I have started writing this several times and I keep falling over my own verbosity. I am therefore posting a few pictures from the 700+ I have taken. London Hammersmith …
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Futility
Now it’s Bank Holiday Monday and I’m doing anything rather than tackle the front garden. So, I have cleared out the spam from BTW. All of it was written in pictograms, therefore Chinese or Japanese. As it happens, I have immediate access to people who can translate both into English. But I would not ever,…
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Money for Nothing
Sitting watching my item on Ebay, waiting for it to reach the end of its auction. Numismatists and the very bored will know that coins are traded on the interweb, and since some foul, dastardly, evil minded person at the Royal Mint came up with the idea of pretty folders to hold your coin collections,…
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Bye Bye BP
And so it was with very mixed emotions that I left my office last night, for the last time, since we move into new premises on Monday. We moved into the old ones around about the time that Diana, Princess of Wales died, and I feel as if that was a lifetime ago, so much…