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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…
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This did Herod sore affray
Epiphany Sunday today. There was a rather sweet thing in church this morning – I have never seen (or noticed) this before, but the Wise Men were not in the crib at Christmas,…
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A melancholic task
In “The Wind in the Willows” one entertaining scene is when early in the book, Mole and Ratty enjoy a picnic on the riverbank. They discuss what fun it is to unpack the…
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A blade from the past
R, J and I played Dungeons and Dragons for many many years. In fact for years when we were all in much more straitened circumstances than we are now, we used to have…
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Home again
We stayed overnight at a local hotel and went back to my Mum’s for lunch. N had cooked fish pie which was very good but different to mine as I cook my fish…
