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Brampton and home
Today we went to see Brampton before we went home. It is a very pretty and prosperous little town. We walked up the Moat/Motte which is basically a big wooded mound which used…
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String of Horses
R and I went off for a little holiday to celebrate (!) my 60th birthday today – leaving J holding the fort and the cats (not literally). We went to an old coaching…
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Book of Kells
My Mum and brother N brought me a reproduction Book of Kells from Dublin (where they had just seen the real thing) for my birthday. It is a most incredible reproduction – really…
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Surrogate Birthday
I had a combo Halloween/Birthday celebration today for my birthday on Wed. Funny that when I was a child I always had a combo party – but it was with Guy Fawkes night…
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Halloween coming
Not only is it Halloween, but four days later it will be my big birthday. I won’t say how old I am but I was born in 1966. When I was a child…
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R’s Gourmet Meal
R went out for a complimentary meal at a conference he is at yesterday I am not actually criticising the food because a) I didn’t get to taste it b) it is not…
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A slight disagreement with Mary Berry today…
Don’t get me wrong here – I have the greatest possible respect for Mary Berry – I think she is a brilliant baker and I generally treat her recipes as holy writ. But…
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Very windy today
There was another one of these “named storms” today. Personally I tend to think that these are an excuse for people making a fuss about things that they would have taken in their…
