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Clearing the garage
Since we moved in (would you believe more than seven months ago now), the garage has been to a greater or lesser extent one almighty mess. First of all it was full of…
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A Victorian New Year Card
A friend I made at a local history group very kindly gave me this original Victorian New Year’s card as a gift. She commented that the kitten looked like our cat Saphy. Here…
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Dove Rescue
I was getting ready for my upholstery class at lunchtime today, and was looking at Facebook (as you do) while I drank my coffee. Suddenly I saw a post – someone had seen…
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Craft Class
I’m off to my craft class tonight. This is the one where last year we made the Christmas bauble. For the first class I am taking Larry the Lion along. I bought the…
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Naples and Sorrento
R and I are off to Italy next month. The weather is so foul at the moment that I have been planning our trip (and doing some craft things) rather than doing what…
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Mouse and dressing gown
This morning the three of us were playing a computer game (we do that quite a lot) when R heard a squeaking noise from his bedroom. On investigation, Saphy was staring intently at…
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“Ready Meal”
Cold again this morning. We bought some rock salt and this morning R spread it around the house. It costs £1 per kilo and ten kilos just about did the steps and the…
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Cats and keyboards
Why do cats like keyboards so much? It has got to be just that they like stopping people working so that they can have their slaves’ full attention. Amber had a go at…
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First Snow
Today was our first experience of snow here on the east coast – unlike areas a bit north of here we only had a few centimetres. Here was the house in the snow…
