Now I suspect you are thinking what about your practise?You said practise made perfect and yet not a dicky bird from you since last week – well dear reader, I’ve been a little busy with the future generations of our family ……I have mastered the art of writing this now , the word program will …
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Practise makes perfect ….so they say
For people like me an awful lot of practise is required to get anywhere near “perfect” – I remember when I was revising for my final physiotherapy exams, I went to the library every night for three hours, probably eight weeks before the exam. I would read through the subject then write down all I …
Where to start …….
Some might say “ let’s start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start” – but as I have no intention of teaching you, Dear Reader, to sing it is not helpful advice. Anyway you have been with me since August 2019 when I started this blog before embarking on my previous …
Testing Testing…..
Hello ……….Hello ………Is anyone out there ? Dear reader are you still there ? If you are, this blog is waking up – not sure the author is quite yet – I need to re educate myself on the wonders of WordPress ! So watch this space – it’ll take a little time – we’re …
This too shall pass….
How things have changed since I last put fingertip to keyboard ( doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as “put pen to paper” does it? but it is supposed to be progress so I’ll try and work with it!) We were going about our daily business rushing here, rushing there- seeing family, meeting …
You can’t start a fire without a spark……….
We’ll I have been intending to write this blog for weeks now, almost since my last blog. Why you may ask -in truth I have no idea! So much has attracted my attention during this time, from the tragic suicide of Caroline Flack, the storms causing devastating floods, through Philip Schofield having to “come out” …
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Love is in the air …..
Another year , and here we are again- St Valentine’s Eve! How do I know I hear you ask – aahh, it’s because the DB is furtively disappearing on mysterious shopping trips, hides himself away in his study with the door closed as if to say “Do not enter”, the credit card statement records ridiculous …
Let 2020 begin…………
So dear reader, not only have we entered a new year but also a new decade! I have no idea where this will take me but come along with me ( if you dare!) and we’ll find out. After a lovely Christmas and following New Year celebrations, our decorations were down well before the due …
And so it came to pass…
Christmas has come round again. Is it me , dear reader, or does time pass more quickly as the years go by? Well whatever, here we are again in a haze of sprouts ( mine have been simmering since October…. Sir Terry Wogan always said that was the way to cook them, so who am …
Take the long way home…
We have left our beautiful beach and wonky chimneys behind, dear reader, and travelled the 1356 miles back to our home here in the United Kingdom. Our journey takes us diagonally across Spain to the north west coast and then up the west coast of France to the amazing tunnel under the sea . We …
Camino Romero 