Category: random stuff
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Back again…
Hello chaps, how’s things? It’s been a while, I know, over a year if we’re counting. Are we counting? Well, let’s assume we’re not bothered by the odd month or twelve of radio silence. I bet you’ve been having a rare old time, I know I have – by which I don’t really mean it’s…
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Summer Highlights
Well hello again. It’s sweltering here as I sit in the coolest room in the house (which happens to be my tiny hidey-hole), writing for the first time in a couple of months. I’m not complaining, not really. We’ve had so many summers that failed to fly, summers spent wondering if the sun would ever…
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An early Bath…
Hello again. Spring is in the air – can you feel it? I’m so ready for the turn of the wheel this time. A day out in Bath A couple of weeks ago, I headed off for a day trip to Bath – my first visit there in over two years. It was wonderful and…
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January
Hello and a happy New Year to you. I always hesitate to ask how people’s Christmas was, and this year – or should that be last year’s – was probably even weirder than the one before for a lot of us, so shall we move swiftly on? It’s a gradual slide into January and the…
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Resurrection
Well hello again! I doubt if there is anyone reading this who was subscribed to Mostly Motley seven years or more ago, but if you are, then all I can say is Wow! Thanks for your patience. If you do remember me – or indeed if this is your first visit – you probably want…
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Events & emotions…
I’ve been a bit quieter than normal around here. Nothing dramatic, just too many events and emotions getting in the way. The weeks before Christmas are not my favourite. A show-reel of ‘the perfect Christmas’ plays on a loop in my head, with an accompanying voice-over insisting that this is the way it should be, and it…
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Turning brown…
We seem to be having an odd autumn around here. I watched our local avenue of horse-chestnuts change from green to dusty brown without stopping at all in any part of the yellow/gold spectrum. Red seems to have been missed out almost completely – except for the holly berries which are trying very hard to…
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Last week we…
Is it me, or do these school holidays seem to come around faster and faster? Last week was a bit of a whirlwind. Number Two daughter was in Paris on a school trip until Friday, so Number One daughter and I went around and about. We managed a trip to London – culture and shopping…
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Sitting…
Some days are for sitting and looking out of the window… today may be just such a one. Window at Tretower Court, Powys, Wales. -)O(-
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Time…
I’m fascinated by the ways in which we visualise time, especially the passage of time. Although we’re used to seeing circular clock faces, with the hands turning round, ending up back were they begin, I suspect that many of us think of time passing as a linear progression – from now to then will be…
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Dollops of culture…
I really like Julia Cameron’s advice in The Artist’s Way, to set yourself regular time out, to do things that rejuvenate your creative spirit. And of course like a great many of us, it’s my ‘time out’ that is too often sacrificed when family life takes over. But I think I can go straight to…
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