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Friday Pick Me Up…
I just came across this courtesy of A Word In Your Ear. I think that just about says it all. Happy Friday.
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Mum taxi – where it all began…
I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time these days, driving daughters around the county. I’m not perhaps quite so put out at this as some mums might be, because I’m well aware that my own mother did much the same for me, forty years or so back. We never seem to have lived…
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Wimbledon Woes & Lots Of Cake
In which I bake like a maniac, walk the dog and wish the BBC wouldn’t mess with the TV schedules. Well apparently it’s Friday already. This week has been almost as busy as last week, but with considerably less stress. Proving that there is no justice in this world, my number two daughter, who has…
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Having A Good Time?
I’m trying hard, but this weather is really getting to me now… Being British, we went camping in the Peak District last week – it wasn’t actually raining when we set off, but it wasn’t long before the dark clouds rolled in and that was pretty much the story from then on. The lovely man…
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A Dog’s Life – A Dog’s For Life
In which we don’t buy a dog… yet. When I was four, my parents gave in to my pestering and bought me a dog – a poodle. She was wonderful and I loved her – we all did. When I left home and had my own place, I bought a dog from a local rescue…
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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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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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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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Exploring Hadrian’s Wall
It’s confession time. Although I’ve been a history geek for as long as I can remember, I’d never been to Hadrian’s Wall until last month. We’d decided to head up to Scotland for a couple of weeks camping and thought it would get us off nicely if we started with a few days exploring Hadrian’s…
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Camping Adventures In Scotland
Well, we actually did it – after talking about it for a couple of years, we finally packed up the car with the two small tents, an assorted collection of waterproof clothes and beachwear and of course the unsuspecting daughters, and drove north to Scotland. It had been ten years to the date since our last family…
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