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A nice day – but…
This morning R and I went for a walk along the side of the River Eden. It is a particularly pretty bit called the “Orchard Walk” with lots of fruit trees (the fruit…
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Off to the vet
Amber had a bit of a chest infection and had to pay her first visit to the vet. This is her, all unsuspecting, sitting on her chair (a repurposed dining chair) in my…
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A blast from the past
Today we had a visit from a gentleman who lived in Castlebank house in 1970s and his wife. We turned out to have quite a lot in common as they used to live…
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The White Lady
I have a Christmas Cactus, or more accurately, a “false Christmas Cactus” – so called because unlike its close relative, it normally flowers a bit earlier in the year – so the Americans…
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Bread and Soup
Yesterday I made some bread. The ingredients for it are flour, salt and yeast. Today it is a bit hard but ok for toast. Tomorrow it will be so hard as to be…
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Our warriors, in serried ranks assembled
J unpacked his French Napoleonic Army and put it into the display case where it lived in the house in Norfolk. It looks great here as it did there, and I am glad…
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There’s a sign on the wall…
I put the sign up today having finished painting the fence. However I then had to prep and prime all the metal hinges on the gates and then paint both gates. There were…
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