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July 2009

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From Plant To Plate

How nice is it to have a relaxing afternoon, lounging around in the garden, picking fresh produce one hour and then eating it outside on the patio the next? How nice? It’s blissful. In other news, Bicester Poultry Inc. has…

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The Last Royal

Today Em and I had a day out at the Royal Show. We were originally going to go and see ‘Auntie’ Katie do her equine thing with Spud, but as it turned out we didn’t get there in time, but…

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The Time Was When

17:24:34 I’m #reading Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore – http://goodreads.com/review/show/62484431 17:24:46 On page 164 of 432 of Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore 17:42:27 @janerawson what happens on Thursday? 21:47:36 @janerawson wouldn’t it have been easier to just keep…

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The Time Was When

17:24:34 I’m #reading Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore – http://goodreads.com/review/show/62484431 17:24:46 On page 164 of 432 of Crossing of Ingo by Helen Dunmore 17:42:27 @janerawson what happens on Thursday? 21:47:36 @janerawson wouldn’t it have been easier to just keep…

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Making Websites

With the holidays now firmly behind us, and Wimbledon, a thing of last week, I’ve sat myself down in my book-lined study to try and make some sort of freelance business a reality. I’m working on three projects at the…

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Good match, but…

I’ve been enjoying the men’s final this afternoon. Actually, if truth be told, I started watching it, and then drifted away, and have drifted back. I think I’d like Roddick to win, just because I like new people to win,…

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Candles, fairy lights, and creativity

Emma got called out in the afternoon, so I settled back to watch the Ladies final (it being too damn hot to do anything in the garden) whilst getting creative on his laptop. Following the rather predicable result, I continued…

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From Cleaning To A Soaking

Emma’s doing weekend duties at work, so my duties are to do the Saturday morning cleaning. I’ve discovered that last night’s Now Show makes a very good accompliment to cleaning duties. That said, I had moved on to the wedding…

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The call to return

Okay, so they might be aggressive (in a business sense) and have a hold over me as so far as other work at OUP, but Progressive have got me some more work in the basement/dungeon/morgue †. Starting in August for…

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