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Emma is on the Slimming World diet, and I am too, in so far as I observe many of the same principals and that I am the one who do all of the cooking, even if I don’t actually pay…
Continue readingIt’s New Year’s Day, and I have to say, weather-wise, it is a dismal start to 2017. I ventured out this morning to feed the bunnies and chickens and it was very, yucky is probably the best way of putting…
Continue readingOnly 42 books read this year, but one of those was the clasic of all clasics that is War & Peace, so I reckon that has got to equal about 6 regular books! I’ve also been fitting in more writing,…
Continue readingChristmas isn’t Christmas without a good dose of Creation Theatre magic, and tonight was the night for filling ourselves with it.
Continue readingSo, one year after we decided to do it, and nine months after signing up to the challenge, Emma and I completed our Stonehenge Trek – 26 miles of trekking marathon. Last night we headed down to Salisbury with my…
Continue readingI love doorways. Always have. Based my A-Level art piece on doorways… I said I liked doorways, didn’t I? They always lead somewhere… Who would have thought there would be a lake on the other side of a doorway in…
Continue readingYesterday, after finishing our epic 12½ mile walk, Emma and I went with Helen, Nick and Lily for lunch at the new Wee Bookshop and Cafe in Chinnor. It’s purpose is to raise money and awareness for bladder cancer but…
Continue readingToday is May Day, it’s also National Dawn Chorus Day, and both Emma and I need to do another section of The Ridgeway as training for our Stonehenge Trek in September. So, for some reason best known to ourselves we…
Continue readingBack in the earlier days of the internet, in the years that came before the juggernaut that is Facebook (other social networks are available), The Internet felt more like a community than it does now. What? I hear you cry….
Continue readingYesterday I ventured through many equisitely pretty villages (including Eastington, Addsworth, Bibury, Bamsley, and not forgetting the town of Tetbury) to the very other side of The Cotswolds to participate, as an author, in the second annual Hawkesbury Upton Literary…
Continue readingI’ve had an interesting reminder this week about the curse of Facebook and where it fails in life today. Last week I had a problem with my email on my laptop which for a while left me unable to access…
Continue readingI’ve never received the quintestential anonymous Valentine’s Day card. Indeed I’ve only ever received two cards that have not have been from wife – and they were from my fiancé before she was my wife. Growing up, and beyond into…
Continue readingSo, the book that most people have lied about reading is not War & Peace (it is at #4 in the Top 20) but Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. As I have actually read he most-lied about book – if actually…
Continue readingSo I’m reading War & Peace at the moment. It’s a book that has been on my To Read list for years, I guess because it is probably *the book* that everyone feels that they should (even if they don’t) read. It’s…
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