Category: random stuff
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Melancholy and excitement…
Strange sensations today. The girls have gone back to school after the long holiday. For the first time in ages, we had a real sunny summer and what a difference it has made to us all. Number One Daughter who faces the heavy toil of Year 11 really doesn’t want to go back – and…
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Flights of fancy…
You know how it is, nothing happens for weeks on end, then suddenly everything is going mad and you’re racing to keep up. It’s been like that here for the last few days – but in a fabulous way. A friend of ours loves to fly, and last weekend he decided the weather was perfect…
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A churchy day out in York…
Warning: this post contains gratuitous references to bell-ringing. Anyone with allergies to bells should stop reading now. York is one of my favourite cities in the UK, and I was delighted to be able to spend the day there last Saturday. Now of course there’s more than enough to keep you happy and occupied in…
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The Chef lives…
In the 1970s, my mum became the proud owner of a Kenwood Chef. She was an enthusiastic cake maker (and eater for that matter, although unlike me she had hollow legs, but that’s another story…). She must have used it practically every week for the next thirty plus years. When she died and we cleared…
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A dog’s life…
We’ve been up in the Peak District for a few days. Traditionally, this is the annual holiday when we cycle – there being a fabulous amount of off-road cycle routes in the area. But since we acquired the delinquent dog, things have had to be rethought. We hoped that he’d condescend to travel in his…
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Learning as I go along…
Blogging is a funny game. Some people seem to be naturals, they start off knowing exactly what they’re about and quickly join the happy melee of Blogland. Some dip their toes into the water of Blogland but soon decide it’s not for them. And then there are others, the ones somehow hooked on the game, but not…
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Nature’s pick-me-up…
I’ve been a bit up and down over the weekend – I’m blaming the hormones. But it was difficult to feel anything other than pure happiness, seeing the sunlight on the trees across the way, and the frost coated field in between. The air was crisp, but the ground is still soggy – it will…
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Sublime and ridiculous…
In a moment of rashness, I suggested an impromptu trip to Oxford Street for number one daughter on Saturday afternoon. Although we live less than an hour away by train, London isn’t somewhere we’ve been in the habit of visiting very much since the girls arrived – but now that they’re older and I don’t…
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Keeping my eyes open…
I’m all over the place today – stressing about half a dozen daft things that really don’t deserve the attention. This is one of those days when you know the theory, but putting it into practise is harder to manage. Still, I couldn’t help being struck by a few of the amazing things I’ve seen…
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Daily devotions…
The wonderful thing about having a dog, is that whatever the weather, you are duty bound to take it out for some exercise. Although it was a family decision to have a dog, and we all had our individual reasons for wanting one, my rationale, was that I wanted a proper excuse to go out…
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Middle distance morning…
I wondered if our family has been hit by some mysterious virus overnight, when this morning at breakfast, there was a pretty universal bout of middle-distance staring. You know how it is when despite all the usual Monday morning chaos of sandwich making, school uniform ironing and finding your cheque-book, your entire family sit at…
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A quick thought on diaries…
It’s about this time of year that the shops start to fill up with diaries and calendars. When I left Corporateland and decided I didn’t need to tote a huge A4 diary with me everywhere I went, I started looking around for an alternative. After a few inevitable false starts, I found my way to…
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