Lucy on October 26th, 2008

I’m a bit annoyed as the computer we download our digital camera pictures onto is getting just a little bit too full. Rich has been grappling to get the new external harddrive to work, and in the meantime I’m snapping away but can’t publish any of my new pics for a while. Grumble, grumble!
In the [...]

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Lucy on October 12th, 2008

Yesterday would have been Nannie’s 81st birthday. So we decided to have a family gathering by her summerhouse (my aunt lives next door) in the garden, and honour her birthday with a spot of ever-so-English Afternoon Tea. My cousin had decorated the summerhouse with golden balloons, and everything had been set out. We arrived, fighting [...]

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Lucy on October 9th, 2008

The carrots are finished, the cabbages are finished, the kale is growing (albeit slowly) and the blackberries are few and far between now.
With everything that’s happened I haven’t had a chance to really sit down and think about planning the winter ahead. We have leeks in at the allotment, but they won’t be ready until [...]

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The photo - yes. That’s me decked out so I don’t swallow a lungful of dust from ripping an old manky ivy down. Or swallow spiders as big as my hands that were emerging from it. The photo sequence audio goes something like this:- Photo 1 - dealing with ivy, Photo 2 - “Rich? [...]

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