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  • A Whole New (Dara) World..

    At last!!! Having now had Dara every month for the last 4 and a half years – bloody hell – the miracle has finally happened. Dara has gone from being an IV infusion – an all day, cannulated, attached to a drip stand bit of an effort, where I'm in the Dark Side from 9.30am-4.30pm…

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  • Big Boys, Babies & Pupdogs

    So this was a very exciting week of meeting people's new puppies – popped over to Hatch's to check out little Polly, who wasn't there when I arrived. But about 5 minutes later a small brown leggy thing hurled herself up into my garden chair and started licking my face off. Now that's what I…

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  • The First Pub Lunch!

    Wooooooooooooo!!!!!!!! One small step for man, one giant leap towards a tuna mayo sandwich.. Hatched a plan with Mr H this Monday for him to cycle out to Abinger Hammer in the Surrey Hills with Jules (who, bless him, then cycled all the way home) and for me to drive with the fur beast to…

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  • The Joys of Going ‘Out Out’

    OMG – how exciting was yesterday?? Me and the hubster ventured properly 'out out' for the first time in ssssssoooooooo looooong. Hatched a top plan for Paul T to come and pick us up and take us over to the Taylor gaff in Walton. Lovely drinkies in the garden with nibbles, till of course the…

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  • The House of Hairy Hawkes

    Well, what a week it has been on the hirsute front. Firstly the HUGE excitement of being in the car fiddling on my phone when the Text of the Year arrived – from my hairdressers! OMG, cue manic scrabbling for the booking tab, checking of the – obviously still pretty empty – diary and sheer…

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  • Day 100

    Well, it's a good job that I didn't think that this would all have blown over by the time the first 12 weeks were up… or even longer. This week saw Day 100 of lockdown roll round for our house, and even though things are easing a tiny bit there's no sign of bloody Covid…

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  • Whoops – belated update!

    Blimey, I seem to have slid so far into lockdown that I haven't updated on here in aaaaages! Luckily, there has clearly been not a whole fat lot going on, so here comes the latest little batch of pics from our somewhat reduced lifestyles. Actually, its been pretty much ok, if not actually fairly good.…

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  • One for Sorrow..

    You'll be glad I didn't;t actually take a photo of this, but it is the saddest thing.  Magpies apparently have a partner for life and stick together – hence the upside of the saying 'one for sorrow, two for joy' – because normally there are two of them in sight. So it was a bit…

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  • And All Of A Sudden..

    …somehow, it was already June. Stunning weather, hot days – oh to be by an infinity pool, looking over some beautiful watery view… Ah well, in the absence of any possibility of that we are making do – pretty well to be fair – with Dora Road, the garden and a few trips out to…

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  • The eve of week 11

    Do you know what? This lockdown t time is actually going really quickly I think! Just with the small change of being allowed to see 1 person (or 2 on the drive), life has suddenly felt SO much more normal. Sure, we won't be hosting 10 person BBQs any time soon – let alone leaping…

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