New Year’s Resolutions – to get fit and to walk more

How many times over the years have I thought, come New Year’s Eve, that I really must lose weight and get fit?  One great way to do so is, of course, to walk more.  Both my husband and I are rather plumper than we would wish due to the many hours daily that we spend […]

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Food and feasting

With most of the Christmas cooking and feasting under my belt, I was amused to read an article on the BBC web-site by the author Will Self, with the intriguing title, ‘The British Vomitorium’, exploring the our national obsession with food. Half-way through, I was stopped in my tracks by the phrase ‘You are what […]

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Christmas Trees

I had to come in as it got too dark. Not too dark to see where I was going, but too dark to see what I was doing. When you grab and pull what you think is a weed, and it feels more solid and turns out to be one of the Christmas tree seedlings […]

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