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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…
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Normal life resumes
Well that is me got my blog back from the cats. I am not sure I am letting them curate it again – they were frankly a bit rude about us. They…
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Twelfth Day of Mousemas – R’s birthday
Today was the last day of Mousemas and R’s birthday. Tomorrow the tree and decorations will come down, the last of the rich food will be bagged up for the food bank and…
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Eleventh Day of Mousemas – Closing scenes
Amber again. Mousemas is nearly over for another year. Tomorrow is R’s birthday which brings things to a close and the day after, M will take the decorations down. It is funny because…
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Tenth Day of Mousemas – A nasty surprise
Today started well, as just when we thought it would never happen, the intruders left. First the strange red car departed (hopefully not to return) followed by R and M in the usual…
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Ninth Day of Mousemas – Boxing Day
Saphy here again. The humans had great hilarity this afternoon playing a game called “Railway Rivals”. This is apparently a game they bought in the dim mists of prehistory when there were sabre-toothed…
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Eighth Day of Mousemas – Christmas Day
Saphy here. It has been chaos today. People, presents, paper, singing, endless music and then pointless games for hours and hours. Amber went off in the sulks – she managed to hide so…
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Big Ted at Christmas
This is another story about Big Ted the bear from my childhood which I wrote for my family at Christmas. Lots of illustrations (done with the help of AI as it would have…