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Month: April 2025

Grass cutting is easy…
Doings / The animals / The garden
  • 30 April 2025
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Grass cutting is easy…

Grass cutting is easy. Up and down lines neatly adjacent, stop, empty the collector into the barrow (found on the A470 and […]

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About time too…
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  • 27 April 2025
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About time too…

When we moved here, nine years ago (coming up) we had an unbelievable selling situation with the purchasers taking the waddle. As […]

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“It was on the Monday morning…
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  • 22 April 2025
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“It was on the Monday morning…

The gas man came to call”. So goes the Flanders and Swan song. Dunno? Link here: The song has partial relevance to […]

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The passage of time…
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  • 21 April 2025
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  • 10 months
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The passage of time…

As you know I like shadows. Time passes, and there’s nothing like a river to bring home the point. One cannot even […]

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Ashes to ashes…
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  • 20 April 2025
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Ashes to ashes…

A lovely day to scatter George’s ashes with Rosie’s under her tree. Thanks to the pair of you, you taught us and […]

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A love story…
Doings / The animals
  • 20 April 2025
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  • 4 mins
  • 10 months
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A love story…

A love story, or how anthropomorphism (our ability to turn animal things into human perspectives) is alive and well. An Irish puppy […]

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It’s all sow lovely…
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  • 20 April 2025
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It’s all sow lovely…

Spring has sprung, despite the cold Easter(ly) wind today. “I remember when we had snow at Easter in the olden days…”. “You […]

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Taylor update…
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  • 20 April 2025
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Taylor update…

Five weeks in and we have taken the hard decision to return her to the rescue charity. She is an absolute poppet […]

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(It’s) Blossom (Dearie)
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  • 20 April 2025
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(It’s) Blossom (Dearie)

Margrethe Blossom Dearie Profile: American jazz singer and pianist.Born: April 28, 1924 in East Durham, New York, USA.Died: February 7, 2009 in […]

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15 days in…
Doings / The animals
  • 6 April 2025
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  • 11 months
  • 358 words
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15 days in…

and Taylor is settling in well. Well, not so well maybe. Following the sad and quick demise of George (his separation angst […]

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Planting..
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Planting..
goodbye old friend
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