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Weather vane
Sunday was a special day so we went to a special place, no prizes for guessing this was Vane Farm. We climbed Vane Hill as the day was clear and the views are quite spectacular for relatively little effort. (hahaHaHaHAHA that’s a joke, you should have seen me halfway up). Although I do find it…
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Slightly unsettling
For some reason I am encountering a frankly worrying level of synchronicity about Thatcher. Random works of fiction which I read are set in the Thatcher era, the non-fiction book-in-the-bathroom has just concluded a rant about her (very well worded too, it’s the M25 Orbital by John someone*) and the poster for the film starring…
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Misty and mellow
It’s frankly sad that a well-loved poem becomes a cliche, I was walking to the train station yesterday and the view from our hill was beautiful, leaves changing colour, low morning sun, wraiths of mist slowly melting and I remembered that Keats probably has never been bettered. But because so many people know the poem, …
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Aunty Net’s party
Yesterday we had a party in Dad’s house for Aunty Net, on the occasion of her 90th birthday next week. Loads of family and friends were able to attend, the sun shone (mostly) and only one of the gazebos was trashed.
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Puffin O’Clock
Here is the new clock which my husband bought for me during the Edinburgh Fringe. It’s birdy. www.stuartceramics.com
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Capital times
Back from three days in the Smoke where we were delighted to meet up with chum Ruth. We had originally planned to go to both Cambridge and London but Paul’s operation made us take a more realistic approach. We saw two extremely good plays, Much Ado About Nothing with David Tennant and Catherine Tate, and…
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Birthday bash
Yesterday Callum was one year old, and we were asked along to celebrate. Apparently I took 120 pictures, but when someone moves that fast then you have to take as many as possible in the hope that you’ll achieve at least a few semi decent results! He loves his car garage and his fire engine. …
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Murrayfield try
Well, it’s a little bit funny, as Sir Elton once opined. Paul has been for a hernia repair op., and right now he’s sound asleep, so don’t phone. I’m not going to put any details up but you can text me if you are mindful. Hopefully sweet dreams for us both tonight. Last night’s for…
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Merry Melodies
Today we went up to Vane Farm in the atrocious pouring rain, and after a walk out to the one operational hide (they’re having work done) we schlepped back into the cafe for a cup of tea, then hied down to the shop on the ground floor. Standing by the optics stand, Paul heard a…
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Pond, James Pond….
I’m ashamed to admit that today I visited our water feature and howked out around three kilos of pond weed, or a whole heap of algal mat as Paul informs me. The redoubtable Davey will be round soon to clean out the thing and render it crystal clean, or at least able to flow again.…