I asked one of the children what they missed most this past year. We’d been talking about being back in March again, but neither of us felt convinced that a whole 11 months had played out in the meantime. I have to admit, I expected her to come back with […]
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Spring – word of the week
When my children were little, I bought a stethoscope for them. One that you could listen to hearts and hear the thump, thump. It wasn’t the reason I bought it, but a lovely added bonus. I wanted a stethoscope so we could listen to the sap rising in the trees […]
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Greener – my word of the week
Mud season is losing the battle, at last. There are subtle signs of spring in the air. The dawn chorus is building up and the twigs of the oak trees are transforming into a nobbly sticks. On our morning walk, the lesser celandines and primroses are flowering in the hedgerows. […]
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Hotchpotch – my word of the week
There goes another week. An oddly dissatisfying week, where nothing sat quite right, but it’s ending on a humdinger of a high note, so not all is lost. Yey! I can hear the gentle playing of a guitar from upstairs and the hound noisily dreaming in the next room to […]
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