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7 Days: Day 1 – Snowy night

The return of 7 Days and I started this run in the dark, in the early minutes of the first day. My goodness it was cold out there. Though it had melted a bit during the day, the snow on the lawn was still very deep to plod through. And while stationing the camera need [...]

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Six inches

All that staring out of the window yesterday worked and after some snow and even a bit of lightning in the evening, the weather gods got to work overnight and dumped six inches of snow over our house. Tree boughs and shrubs were bent under the weight of the snow, the kerria bent double, completely [...]

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Snow from Hampshire to Kent

I didn’t get much snow yesterday, so it helps to have a cameraman and video editor for a brother, who can so beautifully share what he has with me across the internet. Hoping for some more snow of my own tonight though. All that Christmas shopping I have yet to do can wait, right?

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Hush money

I needed to send Bethany this month’s hush money and so logged into Paypal to work out from previous transactions how much to add to the amount to cover the fee. Because you know what Bethany’s like – if I didn’t do that, she’d probably fly into a wild rage … while also blogging, watching [...]

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Ballet and afternoon tea

My Christmas present from Suzy this year was a very posh one: a ticket to The Nutcracker at the Royal Opera House and afternoon tea at The Milestone Hotel. We took a packed train to Charing Cross, meeting up along the way with some of Suzy’s work colleagues who would be joining us. Suzy spotted [...]

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New growth

Little red-green blades of forage rye are now peeking up above the soil in the vegetable patch. I discovered them this morning when I went out to put some peelings in my compost bin during a break in our seemingly incessant rainfall. There they proudly stood, glinting in the low winter sun. How exciting that [...]

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