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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 readingAnd so we reach 2014, and what a wet and bedraggled 2014 it looks to be so far. We stayed up for the fireworks last night and a small finger of whisky to see in the New Year but that…
Continue readingIf yesterday was a day for hibernating indoors and for shutting the world outside out, then today was its antithesis. Bright, clear, and sunny. It’s the first day of a new year and it feels it. Out in the garden…
Continue reading2012 has been a year dominated by books and by reading and writing. At the beginning of year I set myself the Goodreads reading challenge to read at least 20 books in the year. I didn’t manage to reach this,…
Continue readingThis weekend we finally managed to “Christmas” Emma after the washout that was last Sunday, when we got down to the New Forest for New Year. We had roast beef dinner to see out the old year and then settled…
Continue readingAs always, on this day I traditionally round up my reading for the year in the vague hope that I will have fulfilled my perennial resolution to read more. I think this year I seem to be up on last…
Continue readingOn this day, each year, I now traditionally round up my reading for the year in the vague hope that I will have fulfilled my perennial resolution to read more. Sadly, this year, by number of books alone, I have…
Continue reading366 days ago, I listed the books that I had read in 2008 as a permanent record of my reading and as a means to find out how I was doing with my perennial resolution to read more. So, by…
Continue reading366 days ago, I listed the books that I had read in 2007 as a permanent record of my reading and as a means to find out how I was doing with my perennial resolution to read more. So, by…
Continue readingMore talk about weddings. Is this what its going to be like for the next 18 months? A nice sunny day today, and we went for a walk in Stowe Landscape Gardens. I didnât realise but Iâve never been there…
Continue readingOn the 31 December 2006 Emma made a pact with her sister Helen and Helen’s boyfriend Nicholas, that the next year, they would be there; they would go up to London too to see the fireworks. In the end Helen…
Continue readingThe morning after the night before, and it was clear and sunny, and not all that cold… The Latchmoor Lake Originally uploaded by shepline on 1 Jan ’07, 3.25pm GMT PST. Fungi Originally uploaded by shepline on 1 Jan ’07,…
Continue readingA leisurely end to the holiday season – I have been swimming, done my week’s shop and bought some very nice little foody treats to see me into the new year 🙂 and now I have retreated to my warm…
Continue readingI have (of course) indulged perhaps a little too much over the festive season, but not overly. Still, I should aim to increase my daily/weekly exercise. To this end I shall vow to: Swimming, at least once a week Half…
Continue readingI have (of course) indulged perhaps a little too much over the festive season, but not overly. Still, I should aim to increase my daily/weekly exercise. To this end I shall vow to: Swimming, at least once a week Half…
Continue readingAnd so it came to pass. Three hundred and sixty five days after the beginning of 2003, we enter a New Year… …does it feel any different? No. Just like before. It’s just the same. Sat down in front of…
Continue readingAnd so it came to pass. Three hundred and sixty five days after the beginning of 2003, we enter a New Year… …does it feel any different? No. Just like before. It’s just the same. Sat down in front of…
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