7 Days: Day 5 – A fresh spring day

I finally got to the gym this afternoon, leaving my north-facing office and experiencing the lovely spring day outside, sunny and warm, though the air hasn’t quite caught up yet. The gym might be mostly the usual grey tones of equipment and weights, but outside there’s the most beautiful garden and pond full of sunshine [...]

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2/30: Peaks

Of course there’s always the danger that I’ll get halfway through this month of posting and run out of things to say. Suzy tells me that we’ll make sure to Do Exciting Stuff to avoid that happening though. The first half of the month shouldn’t be too difficult, as I’m spending several days of it [...]

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Unstoppable menace

With so much rain falling recently, I erected a kind of shanty town in the vegetable patch in an effort to keep my tomatoes somewhat drier. Cutting black plastic sacks into sheets I tied them together as a roof over the plants, held in place by the canes that were already helping to keep the [...]

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Shepherds’ delight

There have been some wonderful evening skies recently, one in particular turning bright, startling pink in just the few moments I had turned my back to it, giving me quite a start when I turned back to the window. These pinks and blues have become quite commonplace for the moment, which is rather nice – [...]

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7 Days: Day 2 – Bright

This is what I do when snow falls, I sit and stare out of the window at it. Then I turn back into the room and can’t see a damn thing. We didn’t have all that much snow in the latest fall, but it was just enough to make the roads difficult. I’m hoping that [...]

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Snow days

A lot of the UK is under a layer of snow at the moment. Ours arrived Monday night and it snowed all Tuesday but didn’t settle. Then Wednesday came and the snow continued to fall and settled. Now it’s Thursday and the snow is still falling in tiny flakes from the sky, giving us about [...]

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