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Em and I were having a nice walk through Burnham Beeches and considering houses. It was at the point when Em had just asked me whether I preferred the house in Spruce Drive or Stratton Audley when my phone rang….
Continue readingIn exactly one year’s time I shall be standing in front of the registrar in the main room at Craflwyn Hall, waiting for Emma to enter through the double doors and join me down the aisle. In 365 days and…
Continue readingThe weekend actually started a few hours ago. After work today I nipped home and fed the cats and then, skiving off band for the night, headed off down to see Em. She gave me a couple more presents –…
Continue readingA nice sunny day for it, for this, my birthday. People are so kind â I got up (on time, for a change) and had a nice leisurely breakfast. I opened my cards which have numbered the most ever for…
Continue readingEmma just phoned. She’s been offered the nurses job at Bicester Vets! This is fantastic news!! 😀
Continue readingOn Friday I mentioned that there were two articles of interest on the front page of my local paper. The online version of this paper seems to be a tad slow on being updated, but today I have managed to…
Continue readingI’ve forgotten what I was actually looking for on my computer now, but I ended up finding photographs from 2001 on my computer. There aren’t many as its from my pre-digital age and so all my photographs are in packets…
Continue reading1. My new barbeque says that is should take just 15 minutes to assemble. Now, normally I’m pretty good with diy and practitcal-type projects, but this one had me beaten. All the parts and screws are assigned codes (which are…
Continue readingLast night I never really got round to having dinner. In order to save time today I made sure I cleaned my house last night, and by the time I finished I really wasn’t all that hungry, so I just…
Continue reading1. I got home from work today to a selection of mail. In the process of opening them, one with a ‘Persephone Books’ stamp on the front, I noticed the hand handwritten note on the reverse: four your birthday. So…
Continue readingSo it’s grey, and cold, and dark and miserable? So why is that I find myself inspired with creativity? I’m fired with so many images and ideas for my novel it’s untrue. Am I so very weird for loving this…
Continue readingSo rain was always on the forecast for today, so I was always planning to get the bus. That said, when I was getting up, the weather actually looked okay-ish, an I was halfway tempted to cycle it. By the…
Continue readingThis is not me wishing the year or the current fabulous weather, although when you take a look at tomorrow’s forecast you might want to remember you umbrella, but one of the plants I have growing in my garden is…
Continue readingIt appears that I left the cat flap unlocked last night. Are Bella and Arthur a bit stupbid (sic.) or what? To my knowledge they have spent all of last night tucked up in the house as if the outside…
Continue readingEmma has an interview for a nurses job at Bicester Vets on Thursday at 3pm. Good luck Em! 🙂 xx
Continue readingI’m looking into fitting glass doors to the bottom shelfs of my three bookshelfs. Remembering how the one that I had when I was ‘ickle worked I wanted to do this myself by getting some glass doors cut and then…
Continue readingIn no particular order… Attack ground elder with vigour Dig up, and pot up snowdrops, primoses, and (after flowering) bluebells Sort out excess kitchen crockery &c. Sort through understairs cupboard Weed pots on patio Sort through contents of bottom of…
Continue reading…one line, of note, that has met the axe as a result of revising my novel. Now that Hannah is Kirsten, there is no need for the authorial nod to the two Hannah/Hanna Katla conundrum. Whilst the story is better…
Continue readingThis weekend has been a quiet one; a not unwelcome change after the action of the last. We had a nice walk in Stoke Wood amongst the new season’s leaves and bluebells before retiring to the garden (if mostly under…
Continue readingWe have just been to look at the cutest old house ever. It’s a little two-bedroom cottage of Cotswold stone, south-east facing big, walled garden, and situated in the centre of Bicester. The downside of it is that being in…
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