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Spiced pear scones and a blackbird
It’s a dull dreich morning in my neck of the woods and it occurred to me that spiced pear scones would brighten it up considerably. I’m having a day at home today, writing and getting odd bits and...
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Love your local library
I found myself in Perth with delightful assistant no.2 yesterday. We were going to B&Q (a large do-it-yourself hardware emporium, for anyone unfamiliar with the company), and Perth’s central...
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Blog of the Year Award 2012
Two of my fellow bloggers have been kind enough to bestow upon me the Blog of the Year Award 2012, which was jolly nice of them. Both Meg Travels and All Things Boys saw fit to nominate my blog, and I...
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New Year’s Resolutions
Around this time last year I did a post in which I stated that one of my new year’s resolutions was to give away 365 items throughout 2013. At the time I had every intention of fulfilling this aim,...
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Thank you and goodnight
Much as I enjoy lounging around in the blogosphere – reading other people’s blogs as well as writing my own – it does take up a considerable amount of time. Sometimes one has to let go of one thing in...
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Enter 2015
I was inspired the other day by reading a post by fellow blogger, Darlene Foster, about building on the success of 2014. (You can read it by clicking on her name.) In the post she details the goals she...
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List of books read in 2014
In response to a request from Connie in my last post, this post contains a list of the books I read last year. Divided into fiction and non fiction, they’re listed in the order that I read them...
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A life stripped bare
I recently finished reading the book, “A life stripped bare”. The author, Leo Hickman, is a journalist at The Guardian newspaper and this book came about after his employer set him the challenge of...
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