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Winter Wonderland

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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One Man and His Son’s Dog   Hosted by Wordless Wednesday

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Grand Union Canal Boat Trip

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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My Family Bible – now restored

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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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

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 [...]

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