From experience, if you have three teenagers in the house and you ask them to tidy their bedrooms, they will react in three different ways. One will tidy it four times, because that’s how many times you’ve reminded them all. One will half tidy and promise to do the rest […]
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Cosy – word of the week
It’s been a gingerbread baking and hot chocolate kind of week. Nothing like waking up to find the outside world is covered in a heavy frost. Cobwebs turned into fluffy strings, stretched out from hedges to trees, making you realise how many webs there really are in the garden. (Seriously, […]
Read morePreparation – word of the week
Some weeks, it feels like I’m wading knee-high through treacle. Takes real effort to get anything done. This week was one of those. Enthusiasm was waning. Looking back, I couldn’t think of anything remotely remarkable for my weekly roundup. I’d taken one photo all week, which wasn’t a lot of […]
Read moreBut, you said….
“But, you said that there would be no more holes to dig!” Ah. Yes. I might have said something like that. My suggestion that the teens might like to join me in the garden to dig a new flower bed, went down like a lead balloon. The memory of digging […]
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