A very royal picnic

How is it already a week and a half since we gathered in Lauren’s sitting room to eat far too much food? I guess time disappears when you actually have to go to work and Fridays and Mondays are no longer the part of the deliciously long weekends that they have been recently. In honour [...]

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Veg patch 2011 begins

That’s the vegetable patch before I began work. I’d dumped all kinds of rotten leaves and silt from the pond that needed digging in and growing in abundance were poppies and sunflowers, growing from dropped bird seed. I dug everything over, kicked out the weeds and marked out where the plants would go. I made [...]

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Thwarted

Conversation with self in the office: Mmm, I wanna Twix You don’t need a Twix But I want one I could go and get one! I’m going! Here I go! Conversation with Mum in the kitchen: Do you want anything from the shop? The shop? Yeah, the … oh, is it shut? Conversation with no-one [...]

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