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March 2003

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Out and about

Thanks to this years work bonus, I’ve upgraded my digital camera to a Fuji FinePix S304, and thanks to the superbly gorgeous weather this weekend I was able to try it out. What’s more I discovered that the polarising filter…

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Cat flaps and painting…

I don’t know why, but after installing Pepper’s new cat flap in the front door (which to date he has used only once – when being shown how it worked from outside he used it to escape back into the…

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Pepper time…

Well, I arrived home from work yesterday a little unsure of what I would find – to find the food untouched, the litter tray unused and Pepper still curled up under the desk (although he had moved out from under…

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Adventure on the high seas

I had quite an exciting, swashbuckling adventure of a dream last night. It involved a proper kind of pirate ship, and (strangely) a huge ocean tanker of a vessel that resembled the docks of New York plowing through the waves,…

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Puss in hiding…

He had some mewing sessions but was mostly quiet all the way home, and then after I got him out of the cage and showed him the litter trail, he tried hiding down beside the fridge (but found the ironing…

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Pepper

Time to make some sense of yesterdays cryptic comment – I didn’t want to say anything yesterday because it wasn’t at all certain… I only found out about it yesterday as a possibility and this evening I’m going down to…

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Turfing

Today was the best kind of day for NT volunteering, clear, sunny, with all the lovely spring flowers sprunging into the world. This Sunday it was a short stroll down the road to Waddesdon Manor (a neo-French chateau in the…

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A good day

…and productive too. I went swimming again this evening, and it was nice because it was quiet. I like it when it’s quiet because you can swim your lengths, get into a routine and are able to think. As it…

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Like a phoenix reborn…

…from burnt out shell, to a plot of land in a desirable location, Blissford’s Biggest Erection continues to inspire… …even if now it does seem to have lost some of the early “open-plan” charm! Is this a cottage I see…

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Hard landscaping

Well, it’s done. I’ve been thinking of it since this time last year when I spread the manure, dug the garden and planted my seedlings – my front path has been redirected across in front of the kitchen window to…

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Pool rage

Just been for my weekly swim at the very nice pool in Abingdon, however I’m a bit put out that I had to stop at thirty rather than do my usual forty. The reason – a number of aggressive swimmers…

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Playing with cats…

Well, I wish I were!! Unfortunately the CATS I’m referring to is an admin system at work for pushing journals live on Synergy – Content Across The Seas – apparently – or just Cats. Anyway it’s quite pleasing really ‘cos…

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The legacy of 31 October 2001

I can still remember the moment that I received the phone call from my Mum & Dad’s neighbors with the news of what had happened. Thankfully no one was hurt, the pets were fine, and it was just possessions and…

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Integrated at last

Yay! Many many thanks are on their way to and for their helpful advice solving my styles/redirection problem. I’m not a 100% happy with the redirection from LJ to my journal page, but it works and it’ll do for now….

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