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Well that's a bit of a weird title but it sums up yet another weird week in sunny lockdown.<\/p>\n

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Hawksey has mostly been outside – putting his new green fingered toy to use. Not really a Neptune fork but in reality a hollowtine. This, it transpires, is a thoroughly masochistic bit of gardening kit, requiring you (well, him, obvs) to stand on it about a thousand times, each time causing 4 tubes of soil to travel up through the tines and be deposited in the garden. The aim – to provide better drainage so the lower garden isn't such swamp next winter. The result – about 4,000 small 'poohs' all over the lawn and 3 impressive blisters on his lordship's dainty palms.<\/p>\n

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Only problem, it does become quite tricky to spot the actual Scrumpy poohs from the thousands of looky-likey poohs… Here just a small selection of the very many he had to sweep up afterwards, while I offered 'you've missed some' from the reclining chair on the terrace. Upstairs, downstairs at its finest.<\/p>\n

And my week has been putting Zoom to the test – trying out not just one but two mega Zooms. One for my hockey team, the Aces – where we racked up 16 of us for Friday's natter.<\/p>\n

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Highly entertaining, especially the bit where George put on a curly wig to look like Hatch in the adjacent Zoom square..<\/p>\n

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Reminded me of the Brady Bunch opening credits ' 'it's a story, of a man named Brady….' – even they didn't quite have 16 under one roof.<\/p>\n

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And then last night was Michelle King's 50th birthday zoom – very well orchestrated by Liz T & Sarah T, first of all getting a surprise bunch of us in her road, both in person and on people's phones, to sing her Happy Birthday and drop off gifts at lunchtime, including a phonebook of lots of MK's travels with us over the years – cue doorstep tears of delight! Then all – and a few more – signing back in at 8.15pm for the surprise mega Zoom. Had a world-beating 17 of us on here at one point, but here again is the 4 x 4 grid of ex-AVers, raising a birthday glass and all doing our best to make Michelle's 50th a brighter place. Cheers!!<\/p>\n

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Remarkable that you can actually had a sort of 'conversation' with that many people, on both calls, although it does require quite a lot of inane grinning while you keep silent, trying to work out which box is speaking at any one time… <\/p>\n

Happy Hump Day Wednesday folks, let's see what Boris has to say about all this tomorrow eve. x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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