Author: Anny
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Are You Moonstruck?
Are you feeling a surge of energy? Is your sap rising? Are you filled with the desire to get on with things? I’ve often wondered why my own energies vary so much from day-to-day. It has frequently made me wonder if I’m one of life’s flaky people. But there could be another possibility – it…
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March: In Like A Lamb…
Today is the first day of March; happy St David’s Day to everyone in Wales. Until 1752, we’d also have been wishing each other ‘Happy New Year’ and in some ways, with new life bursting forth, it makes more sense to celebrate the new year now, rather than in dreary January. For the last few…
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Bess of Hardwick
On our recent trip to Hay-on-Wye, I picked up a copy of Mary S. Lovell’s book, Bess of Hardwick, First Lady of Chatsworth. Although I’ve known bits and pieces about Bess for a long time, this is the first time I’ve read a whole biography of this remarkable woman. Bess was no beautiful princess like…
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Where Are The Indian Restaurants In Hereford?
Last week we had a mini jaunt to Hereford, so I could meet up with my brother who lives in deepest, darkest, rural Wales (OK, so not really deep or dark, but pretty rural, can you hear the envy seeping through here?). We’ve been doing this for a couple of years. We stay at the…
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Goodrich Castle: Roaring Meg & The Best Cheese Scones Ever…
Some castles are inferior little numbers, scarcely more than a raised mound of earth or a dubious pile of stones. Not Goodrich Castle. Goodrich is A PROPER castle; solid, chunky, brooding, mysterious, exciting. When you need a castle fix, Goodrich should be there high up on your list. Sitting on top of a hillside, above the meandering…
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Spring Has Sprung
I’m sitting here in a reasonably warm house (although never let anyone convince you that a glass desk is a good idea), while we wait for the next dumping of snow in the Home Counties. As the temperature hasn’t managed to climb into the plus numbers for three days, much of the snow from the…
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New Year, New Kindle
I haven’t been here much lately. Partly because my hands finally recovered and I was able to stitch again – see my other blog if you’re remotely interested in needlepoint – and partly because I was given a Kindle for Christmas. Now, I could have had a Kindle last year, indeed the possibility was dangled in front…
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Survived Christmas
Well, the children are back at school today, so it really feels that Christmas is over, despite there being another two days before Twelfth Night. Things weren’t too bad in the end. I managed to keep the stress levels under proper control. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that I actually enjoyed…
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Further Advent-ures In Christmas Preparations
OK, so this might be a bit confusing – bear with me. If you were being very inquisitive, you might have noticed on the side bar, a link to My Creative Blog. You’re probably much too well brought up to even go there, but if you did, you’d find the blog which deals more exclusively…
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Tired of blogging?
This week, as I’ve been reading through my daily Bloglovin selection of posts, I’ve become aware of rather a lot of people complaining about how hard they’re finding it to blog regularly, how difficult it is to come up with original content and how tough it is to stick to their posting schedule. Now, this…
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Christmas Tree Festivals
Last night, we went to the church, armed with my mum’s old artificial tree, a bucket load of tinsel and as many Quality Street chocolates, stapled to ribbon as we could carry. (Oh, there are chocolate mice and oranges too). We had decided that it was too early to condemn a real tree to death,…
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