Early spring flowers
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Yesterday I went out early with the dog for our morning walk. It was cold
and very wet out there. These are some photos I took in our yard and in the
neigh...
Season of Mists
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and mellow fruitfulness.
Do I look good in Autumn colours?
Our walk to Argyle Park earlier this week was made in the muffled
environment of thick fog....
Hooligan Grannies.
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These two smug-looking OAP vandals, Diane Bligh 77 and Alyson Lee 66, are
responsible for spraying paint over Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster
Abbe...
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
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In my personal counselling this week my counsellor asked me when my heart
was broken last.
She qualified it as being a question not associated about my ex...
THE COUNTDOWN - SEVENTY DAYS TO GO
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*Today I am going to start a countdown to moving day.*
*Don't worry, I'm not going to make you suffer every day, I'm gunna do
70,60,50,40,30,20,10, an...
More Irish Stuff.
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On the last day of our February holiday in the Algarve we walked around
Faro town.
It began to rain and we saw an Irish bar. Like an oasis in the deser...
The ducks are back.
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We go for dinner at the recently opened hotel that overlooks the Old
Course. There's some form of committee meeting in the club house opposite
and from ...
Rearranging
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In this corner I had the box with the owl with blankets on top
It had packets of yarn that at the time of purchase I just had nowhere to
keep.
I also ha...
Autumn skies
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Sunset over the Grey River
Photo taken by me on the way home one night around 8pm after work - Autumn
sunset over the Grey River. We've had to order ou...
The Wild Robot
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I just wrote a longer post about this but deleted it. The short form is
that I went to see *The Wild Robot *yesterday. If Bill Nighy wanted to do
one of...
Makahu/Strathmore tunnel
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A pack track was all that originally joined Strathmore and Makahu, a
community that was settled in 1896. By 1902, a dray road was completed to
replac...
Spring Forward
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This coming Sunday at 2 am our annual clock fiddling takes place once again.
An hour forward to Daylight Savings Time, payback for ...
It's never ever going to end.......
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Zoe-Zoe (which is what I call her most of the time), disgusted with the
orange buffoon, decides to take a nap. And hopefully dream of chasing
bunnies.
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FRONT GARDEN.
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It must be a couple of years since Doug cleared out the invasive
Alstroemeria from the back of the front garden. Since then we have been
moving plants aro...
Sunday, February 23,2025
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Here are some pictures taken today. I finally got out for a much needed
walk around the little village. There are now vertical snow walls sliced
o...
Books 1-3
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Captured Lies by Maggie Thom
She was kidnapped not once but twice and now someone wants her dead because
of it....
Her life was a lie!
Bailey knew her ...
Charlotte Alexander
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Charlotte Harata Hone Rameka Alexander was born in 1887 at Waimate North
and passed away at Rawene on 14th October 1933, now resting at St
Catherine's Ce...
Our nights
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These are the chocolate eggs I bought today at the little store here that
has everything. I'll put every two eggs in a bag, and I hope I don't forget
the...
Farewell My Friends
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After blogging for nearly six years, I have decided to retire. Blogging
filled an empty spot in my life after losing my husband, but that has
changed...
Japandi Bedroom Makeover
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*Do you want a break from politics and British summer weather? Read on...*
“Another mural? Are you pulling my leg?”
Colin was back last month to decor...
Catching up!
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Oh dear, nearly six months since I last posted a blog. It is not that I
have been bothered to write to you. Oh no. It is because words have been
absent ...
Professing !
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Actual professing.
There are times when every learned person has the duty of stepping up to
the line and of explaining the intricacies of life from the...
Internal Garden Monologue
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If you had told me 5 years ago, I would be sitting in a house, at a table
over looking a front garden in Scotland, I would have laughed my socks
off. I...
A Note of Sadness
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One of the problems about getting so involved with these m/s recipe books
is that I feel as though I almost know the women who wrote them. I can see
how th...
Now, stop it, just stop it Linda!
ReplyDeleteFrom a cool, wet and windy place in the far north .....
It's blowing a gale where we are now . But not cool or wet. Sorry 😐
Delete😎 It's alright for some. Imagine being able to go the beach everyday and the sun is always shining?
ReplyDeleteThe sun is shining that's for sure. Thank goodness it hasn't got that fierce heat it had a few weeks ago. The water is cool . But not too cool
DeleteSaronic Gulf has so much to recommend it in any season.
ReplyDeleteI love those winter sands where no foot has trodden .
DeleteBlue skies even in winter.
ReplyDeleteThere is just something about a deserted beach. Bliss
Blue skies and a still blue sea. Peaceful
DeleteIt looks so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteIn winter it is. Summer it's just noisy
DeleteEmpty beaches are my idea of heaven.
ReplyDeleteMine too !!
DeleteBeautiful beach photos.
ReplyDeleteIt's a nice Sandy beach. Not many on the island. Some are stoney
DeleteOur beach here will now be very different from a couple of weeks ago. Fur coats instead of bikinis.
ReplyDeleteIt should be warm enough for short sleeves till November here
DeleteBeautiful and serene.
ReplyDelete~Jo
The winter beaches are lovely . Summer beaches are full of life
DeleteYou're so fortunate to live so near, it's lovely feeling the sand between the toes.
ReplyDeleteAnd dip toes in the water, no matter how cold
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