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Happy Easter!
For the first time ever, I made Hot Cross Buns for Good Friday. They may look a bit wonky, but everyone liked them, I'm glad to say, so I'm going to make them again. I don't do much yeast cookery but...
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Catching Up.
Yes, time I caught up on this blog, of course, so here goes. I can't believe it is several weeks since I baked those Hot Cross Buns, but anyway we had a good Easter. The weather was fantastic in...
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Happy 2022!
I really appreciate the concern of those kind people who have asked if I am OK. I haven't written for ages, but I've been okay. The main reason for my silence was not getting to grips with the problem...
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Covid, Construction, Consternation.
I've tried to avoid talking about Covid (well, someone's got to avoid it, right?) but if I'm going to stick to my plan to post more, I have to mention that T and I have both tested positive. I got...
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Feeling better!
Hurrah, I'm feeling very nearly back to normal! Well, about 95%. And that is good enough for me. And it cheered me up a lot to go for a walk with K. We decided to go to the little private nature...
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My Little Life....
Please forgive me if I mainly write about my own little life in this blog - and I'll enjoy reading about yours, too. But before I tell you about my doings, I have to say how devastated I am about...
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Lights, Flamingoes and a Fortified Town.
So what happened there?? I had half a dozen photos and a half written post about some interesting things in London, but we were just off to France, so I saved it and went off to catch the Eurostar....
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Easter! And Some Mysterious Runes?
Happy Easter! Well, belatedly. I started this post on Good Friday, but life got in the way and now it's Easter Monday. So it's still officially Easter, I guess! We began Easter week in Suffolk, and...
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Made me Think, Caught my Eye.
During lockdown, I kept wishing I'd done things and gone places when I could. Now I'm doing my best to do just that. Not always successfully, I might say - but I am trying. And last week, we were...
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And So, Here We Are....
Well, I'm sorry to say that for weeks and weeks, I've been suffering from a torn hamstring. It has been taking ages to get better, and, on top of that, T. has managed to put his back out. So things...
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R.I.P Queen Elizabeth II
This will be published on the day of the Queen's funeral. A queue of up to five miles long has been moving slowly, day and night, of people wanting to pay their last respects to her in London. My own...
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Getting back to Things I used to Do
I don't know if you have found this, but life still feels a bit different from what it did before the pandemic. Not just an awareness of crowded spaces, but even socialising, having friends to dinner,...
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Glimpses of 8760 Hours
Happy New Year! I hope you have a good one, and that your festive season was wonderful. Ours wasn't such a great success in that there was a lot of illness, with one person after another getting...
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My birthday is in mid January and usually I celebrate it in the late Spring. January is a month when some sad things have happened for me in years gone by, but this year I decided to take a different...
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Birthday Central & Jewellery
These few weeks are Birthday Central! Happy 9th birthday to the twins, who both decorated their own cakes and thoroughly enjoyed their party. It was a lovely party. Boy Twin had been making long...
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Quilts, Colour and Making Do.
Isn't this strange?It is a teeny part of the current London Fashion and Textile Museum exhibition, which closes on 12th March. It celebrates hangings and quilts using the fabrics of the gifted...
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Coronation, Cherubs, And Baffled in Turin.
I posted an account of my trip to Turin long ago on Easter Monday. Then I tried to alter it on my phone, failed, and messed it up. So I took it all down again. It's a little way down this page,...
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Edinburgh
I'm putting a post up today to see if my old Blogland friends are still around - I suspect that notifications of my posts aren't going out any more, but maybe I'm wrong. So if you've followed me in...
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Back from Ireland
When I look at this picture it reminds me of my teenage years in Malta, when we would go down stony paths that wound through ancient stone fortifications, and then swim off the rocks at the shore. But...
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Two Fur Coats in Bantry House... and a Colourful Bathroom.
As I promised, here's some more from my trip to West Cork in Ireland. One of my favourite trips was to Bantry House. I'd wanted to see it for years, after K visited it and highly recommended it as "a...
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Parliament, Photos and Paris
I thought I'd upload a few photos of what I've been up to lately. I've been pretty busy but mostly nothing interesting, just insurers, banks, dealing with theft, car, things not working, blah blah,...
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Happy Halloween! And, at last, Paris
We don't get many kids knocking on the door around here at Halloween, because, I learned the other day, they all go down the road to St. Johns Wood. It's about a mile from us, and many of the people...
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La Villette Park, Paris - WHAAAAAT?
I saw this strange looking creature the day before I left Paris. It is a 17th century tenor cornett shaped like a serpent and with a dragon's head. It is just one of thousands of exhibits in Paris's...
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Happy Blooming Christmas!
Looks like we may be spending a few days in Spain over Christmas. I've always wanted to see what they do at Christmastime there. I'm told it involves a lot of pretty lights and singing of traditional...
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St. Paddy, Rain and A Gap in the Hedge.
Happy St Paddy's Day of yesterday! This is the cake I made for a party of some of the other Irish around here. We talked of Irish things, like which is the best island to visit off West Cork, and...
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