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Wordless Wednesday – Love the Snow

Posted in Family, Wordless Wednesday, walks on Jan 6th, 2010

 
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Winter Wonderland

Posted in Family, Garden, Personal on Dec 22nd, 2009

It’s been snowing here, but not as much as in the south of England and I do find it odd that we’ved moved north where it’s supposed to be colder and it isn’t!  This snow is the best kind – crisp and even. The roads have been gritted and are clear so we’re still able to [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Meet Annie

Posted in Family, Pets, Wordless Wednesday on Oct 7th, 2009

One Man and His Son’s Dog

 
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Grand Union Canal Boat Trip

Posted in Family, Personal on Jul 7th, 2009

Last week it was D’s birthday and we spent the day with the family on the Grand Union Canal. It was a beautiful, hot summer’s day and we had a great time on a  little (30ft) boat, stopping for lunch at a canal-side pub.

The view from our boat

 

Our boat approaching a lock

 

Another view from the boat

 

 

Swans came [...]

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The Sunday Salon – Today’s Selection

Posted in Books, Children's Fiction, Family, Sunday Salon on Jun 28th, 2009

Some thoughts on today’s reading.
But first of all a short video (the first one I’ve put on YouTube):
Thunder and lightning – very, very frightening!
We had the most tremendous thunder storm last night and our lane was like a river in full flow. We’ve never had such a storm before with the whole lane covered by [...]

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Wordless Wednesday

Posted in Family, Wordless Wednesday on Jun 10th, 2009

Great-Niece!

Darcy

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My Family Bible – now restored

Posted in Family on Jan 9th, 2009

In October I wrote about my family Bible before I took it to a local bookbinder to repair it. The front cover was completely detached as were a number of the first pages including details of births, marriages and deaths in the family from the latter part of the 19th century. The spine had almost crumbled away [...]

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Sunday Salon – the Sunday Before Christmas

Posted in Books, Family, Personal, Sunday Salon on Dec 21st, 2008

It’s not snowing or even very cold here but this poem came to my mind, thinking about Christmas when I was a child. We didn’t have central heating and on winter mornings the windows would be covered over with frost and icicles. My Dad would say Jack Frost had been out over night drawing in [...]

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Back to Knitting

Posted in Family, Knitting on Dec 6th, 2008

I’ve been a bit too busy to write much here these last few days. We had a family get-together yesterday and celebrated our granddaughter’s third birthday and tomorrow there is yet another gathering and we’ll be meeting the newest addition to the family – Darcy, our great niece!
I got my knitting needles out after a [...]

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Wonders Never Cease – Penguins on Parade

Posted in Family, Personal on Nov 15th, 2008

Earlier this year we visited Edinburgh Zoo.

Penguins on Parade

The Penguin Parade is totally voluntary – every day any penguin who wants to comes out of the Penguin Enclosure at 2.15pm and goes for a walk around the zoo grounds. It was dull and rainy when we were there and lots of the penguins were enjoying [...]

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