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  • Scilly Seals!!!

    H and I are just back from 8 days in the Scilly Isles (off Cornwall) – and while I will get round to whacking some photos of the main trip on here, I couldn't resist putting the best of the pix from our snorkelling trip with seals on here now.          …

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  • When you realise…

    … you should really clean out the washing machine filter more often. Oddly, quite a few coins from Malta, several years ago. Plus the ubiquitous Waitrose trolley ‘coin’.   Financial findings pictured. Large amount of back doormat sisal fronds, mud and piece of random plastic not shown..!

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  • Off to the Scillies…

    Yep, tomorrow Mr H and I head off on our first week away together since my 50th last year – down to the Scilly Isles. Taking the train to Penzance (watching out for pirates, obvs) with the Scrump dog, where we'll spend the night before getting the ferry over to the first island, Bryher, on…

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  • Bake Off!

    Had a last minute invite tonight to join Curly, James and one of their boys, Jonny, at the Castle pub in Tooting. Where, of all things, there is a large Bake Off style tent complete with ten cooking stations.                                …

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  • The layabouts

    Looks like Scrumpy and Mr H equally unimpressed with the heat today…  

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  • Couples Chemo and all that..

    So, thought it might be time for a mini update, not that there's anything terribly thrilling to say. Hawksey had his last of his 6 chemo treatments yesterday, so that's a good landmark to have got to. Now he'll have a week or so of losing his sense of taste, feeling a bit tired and…

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  • Hot Dog

    'Thank you for filling my paddling pool, Mummy, it's such a hot day', said Scrumpy, in my dreams, as I stood there with the hose for 10 minutes this morning.                                         'I promise I won't go…

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  • It’s BBQ season..

    Had Janine and Ross over at the weekend and Mr H decided to knock up a full mixed grill for them. I took two photos of the huge cooking dish with all the meats 'before' and 'after' being BBQ-d, but it looked so gross I couldn't quite bear to post it on here. Luckily it…

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  • Joint 50ths

    Well, it gives me great pleasure to have squeezed yet another celebration out, for my 50th birthday – which was, ooh what, nearly 9 months ago now? Popped down to near Winchester with Helen V and Helen T (my two great uni chums) to celebrate our combined 150th birthdays, Helen V having had hers in…

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  • Northumberland

    Yes, its very very very 'up north'. Just had a very good three night break up there with H and our chums David & Mandy (AKA the spaniel people from Harrogate), plus Scrumpy and their dog Macey. Had a really nice little house on the edge of a (disused, fortunately) quarry, just on the outskirts…

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