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Why? Quite simply because getting from A to B these days is fraught with difficulties, mainly in the form of ROADWORKS! If I had a fiver for every ‘Road Ahead Closed’ sign that has gone up recently I would be almost a millionaire. (Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration, but you get the picture).
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I admit it, I am feeling my age at the moment. I ‘retired’ from paid work over 15 years ago and I haven’t stopped doing stuff since. Now I have to seriously consider retiring for real, moving into a quieter (less administration heavy) phase of my calling. I’d have to in a couple of years
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Another year has gone by, and I realise I have not been here for a while. In my line of ‘work’ you don’t get much spare time for such things. Yet again the tree went up at the last minute, as well as all the other decorations. As always the tree installation was helped by
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Well, who wouldn’t? It’s PIMMS O’clock on a dreary afternoon, so what better time for a nice afternoon tea served with a fruity concoction and a suitable designer tea (as in, not PG) to follow. Trouble is, there are, if this is even deemed possible, too many cakes. Like many people, especially those of a
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Oh, yes! Why else would I have a phone full of cat photos and little else? Why else would I have struggled to put a pecking order on cats or family, when cats for me are family? Why else would the majority of my blogs (which are few anyway) contain so many cat references and
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Am I? Can you see me? My hubby and I have come to the conclusion that we are an invisible couple. That is rather strange, as it’s not as if either of us is in any way small. Short (me)? Yes. Small? No. This phenomenon has manifested many times in restaurants. On more than one
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Okay, so it’s normally ‘friend or foe’, but this is an entirely different issue. Here I am discussing what constitutes a friendly, loving gift and a fiendish, challenging one. The story goes like this. Both my husband and I (that sounds pretentious) like puzzles. Each morning we have a go at those online challenges like
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Any of you who have ever owned a cat will know that they can be relied upon to either amuse or frustrate throughout the season with their antics. The first challenge is decorating the house. I do this a bit at a time so that I can find spaces to put things where they cannot

