Lucy on February 8th, 2009

STOP!
IT’S BEEN SNOWING.
No seriously…stop.
I can’t believe the snow has been here for a whole week. A whole week! Never in my 26 years can I remember snow laying this thickly, and for this long. It’s ‘proper’ winter, not experienced since the last great snowfall (lasting around 2-3 days) of 1999 (see pic)!
Snow like this is [...]

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Lucy on December 22nd, 2008

We heard them a few days before I saw them, because they’re noisy little beggars. We’re quite familiar with the sound as Rich’s parents have had them dropping by for years. Yes, that’s right, the parakeets have moved north and are in and around the Smallest Smallholding.
Well, Bedfordshire isn’t really ‘north’ as such (unless you’re [...]

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