Sunday lunch with mum and dad! ???????? (with apologies to vegetarians) #roastlamb #sundaylunch #family
Sunday lunch with mum and dad! ???????? (with apologies to vegetarians) #roastlamb #sundaylunch #family
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Sunday lunch with mum and dad! ???????? (with apologies to vegetarians) #roastlamb #sundaylunch #family
Continue readingJess with Rudolph… (and Mum and Dad too!) #family #Suffolk @rspbminsmere
Continue readingA shelf-full of Shepherds… #books???? #family @shepline @andyshepherdwriter #DebbieShepherd
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Continue readingSunday. After yesterday’s leisurely start if outdoorsy-busy day, today Emma and I got up and breakfasted, before packing my mini-kitchen into freezer bag and our new Blue Texel farm shop bag. Then we headed out to Amersham to see Emma’s…
Continue readingOn the eve of going back to work tomorrow its time for a little bit of a round-up of the last two weeks which have seen me largely oblivious to what day it was. There was our professional photoshoot near…
Continue readingWhenever I start a new notebook to jot down my writing notes there comes first a period where I have to transcribe bits and pieces across from the old to the new. I have quite a collection of truly interesting story…
Continue readingThe original plan (ie. the plan that only came into being two days ago) for today would have seen us spending this morning with my mum and dad. But plans changed, and circumstances dictated that we suddenly had an entire…
Continue readingAfter an early start to Saturday, giving the house a good clean, Emma and I headed out to Oxford just after midday to meet my Mum and Dad at The Perch Inn, Binsey – just on the edge of Port…
Continue readingToday was a day for seeing family that I haven’t seen in ages, or indeed in come cases, not at all. With the exception of Olivia, I’ve not met any of my first cousins-once-removed, and only she when she was…
Continue readingWe have a portrait in our house of Great Aunt Blanche. To me she would have been Great great aunt Blanch as she was my Granpy’s aunt. Its a very good charcoal sketch and we’ve always known that the artist…
Continue readingWe have a portrait in our house of Great Aunt Blanche. To me she would have been Great great aunt Blanch as she was my Granpy’s aunt. Its a very good charcoal sketch and we’ve always known that the artist…
Continue readingDay 4: Friday 17 August 2012 Another nice, leisurely breakfast this morning after another good night’s sleep, if a disturbed once at around 4 o’clock by Emma climbing up from under the back of the bed, across the pillow and…
Continue readingDay 4: Thursday 16 August Plans change. Given second thoughts Janet had decided her Peugeot 206 might be a little small for four people and two dogs so we belayed the trip to the golden circle. Instead, after a leisurely…
Continue readingSo, after the washout that, for Emma, was Christmas Day we tried again and headed over to her parents for post-Christmas lunch of cheese and biscuits and sausage rolls. Emma made up for lost time and fed and cuddled her…
Continue readingSeeing Nellie playing under the Christmas tree skirt last night was reminiscent of 18 years ago and Bramble as a kitten playing under the Christmas tree. I found this footage recently on an old VHS tape from Christmas 1993. We…
Continue readingFriday 24 July at 20:29 ⢠There I was, innocently making the tonight’s dinner, and Emma was in the lounge messing around on Facebook, and then suddenly she’s telling me that I have a new friend; someone very close to…
Continue readingAfter the hiatus of Easter weekend, and the worries concerning Emma’s dad’s cancer today was the day for heading off to the New Forest and a day with my parents. Thankfully, Mr Jefferys was up to driving again so we…
Continue readingFunerals are odd things. In some strange, mixed up way, I’ve been looking forward to today. I think that it is because of Grannie’s funeral two and a half years ago. Although it was sad, and upsetting, she was old,…
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