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~ I have finished my present wrapping – well, with the exception of the yet to arrive amazon delivery. Ggrrr, its frustrating. I pay for Amazon Prime which gives me free next day delivery on all eligible items (or everything…
Continue readingThe last two days have been like a second weekend after the first. Thinking back, it seems ages since that cold day last Saturday, freezing at Millets Farm and playing carols. Today, whilst Dad went off to a meeting at…
Continue readingAfter a weekend of Christmassy activities, this afternoon we welcomed my my mum and dad for yet more Christmassy joy. We exchanged presents over a cup of tea and a mincepie in a little, mini-Christmas – Emma and I got…
Continue reading~ a quiet, slow start to today after Lucy’s Christmas carol party last night. Okay, so carols are not that hard to play, but I think this weekend has taught me that what I lack most of all when it…
Continue readingI’ve missed the carols at Millets Farm for the first couple of years, first by car trouble, and last year of course by the great snow fall of 2010 – and when I say missed it, I really mean, missed…
Continue readingYesterday the builders moved in to renovate my old and future office. This morning when I went in after my day off, the wall was down already and they were onto the painting. The new Marketing Emporium is enormous! And…
Continue readingToday has been a productive if busy one. With emej working the second of her crazy 12½ hour weekend shifts, I was in charge of cleaning out the bunnies and chickens today, and then cleaning the house and processing the…
Continue readingAs Stephen Bell – our new conductor at Abingdon Concert Band – told the audience at tonight’s concert, today has been the busiest shopping day in the run up to Christmas and thus, surely Christmas starts here. In the attrative…
Continue reading~ Tonight was our last rehearsal of term, and the last before our Christmas concert, and the short season of carrolling events throughout the month. It went well, and I think it might be a good one. It’s in a…
Continue reading~ the strange fault on our television reoccurred, annoyingly the very day after the engineer closed the job on their system – spent considerable effort trying to persuade Comet to skip the stage of sending another engineer to possibly look…
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 readingAfter a late night last night and way too much off-diet food at Emma’s work’s Christmas meal, we were up early this morning to head out to the WWT London reserve at Barnes for the Facebook group meetup, and a…
Continue readingToday, I think, our slimming world diet is going to go somewhat out the window. Tonight we are off to Emma’s work Christmas meal to eat probably way too much of the wrong type of food. This, after we met…
Continue readingToday I worked from home, and had, as was usual on these occasions quite a productive time of it: ~ the main reason for working from home was so that I could head out for a lunchtime date with the…
Continue readingThe recently broadcast Newsround Special: My Autism and Me about living with aspergers prompted some further thoughts about my own life particularly in respect to where I would be without the internet. It’s a brilliant video and one that I…
Continue readingWe spent the morning packing our bags, and the presents and making sure the animals were sorted for the weekend – during which time the new fencing unexpectedly arrived, and, in the nick of time the ‘unofficial’ wedding album arrived…
Continue readingI dispatched Emma to work this morning and set about a leisurely morning doing things around the house. I fed and watered the chickens, the bunnies and the wild birds, processed some washing, changed the beds, and wrapped Emma’s presents…
Continue readingAnother day of working at home proved to be a productive one, building some new pages whilst lounging on the sofa in front of the Christmas tree and the (pretend) fire. By starting when I would normally begin my journey…
Continue reading~ I am so, so lucky that my job enables me, and the bosses permit me, to work from home as I had to stay home today for the plumber to fix our heating situation. We were actually pretty toasty…
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