The Great Pumpkin Massacre of 2007

I’d toyed with the idea of growing pumpkins again next year; maybe just one vine, or perhaps I’d train some Jack Be Little pumpkins up a trellis. However, having spent 3 days dealing with nearly my own weight in pumpkins from this year, the idea of pumpkins in 2008 is completely off the table. I [...]

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High on a hill

I spent an hour on a cold, windy hillside overlooking the cathedral city of Guildford last night. Shortly before we packed up and went home for fish and chips, rain began to fall too. So getting this shot with frozen fingers and trying to hold my step-stool “tripod” still as well was something of a [...]

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But what if I get thirsty?

Bad news this morning. After opening the post Dad came to me a little distraught and let me know that we would be without water for a day next year. That’s what the notice from the water company says, but you know the crazy thing is that they haven’t even specified which day it will [...]

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The love child of a sheep and a kangaroo

I did it. I made a woolly jumper. My complete inability to take a picture of myself wearing it this morning was a little perturbing, what with 7 Days being just around the corner, but never mind. The jumper’s not for me anyway, as the sleeves are a little long and a V-neck would be [...]

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I would also have accepted “curvilicious”

I’ve just remembered I had been thinking about doing some kind of Advent photo countdown thing this year. Shortly after I remembered that I realised that today is the 3rd December and so perhaps that particular ship has already sailed. I’m not quite sure where the end of November and beginning of December disappeared to, [...]

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