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Old books and Romsey Abbey
Romsey Abbey, HampshireAnyone reading this blog on a regular basis will know of my deep love of books - a passion really, since I would forgo almost anything in order to buy another book I have seen...
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Broadband . . .
I have a connection temporarily this morning, but it probably won't last. It's a week since the last connection. Please bear with me - it could be several weeks yet before the problem is fixed as the...
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St Fagan's - Museum of Rural life
The amazingly colourful cover of the font at St Teilo's church, now reconstructed at St Fagan's. The Star of David and the Tudor rose is incorporated in the design.We had to pick up Middle Daughter (G)...
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Baking bread without an oven . . . the old Cornish way
Interior of a cottage (c. about 1810) at St Fagans. This is the first of a row of terraced cottages which are decorated internally spanning a 150 year period.I found a wonderful little book recently in...
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Thoughts about moving
I still have an internet connection - Amazing! I couldn't sleep the night before last and ended up house-hunting. It was to be this year that we downsized, but the state of the economy dictated...
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Warning: Proud Momma Alert!!!
Tam on a Dig at a possible Roman site in the Deer Park at Dinefwr Castle.Our eldest daughter Tamzin has just found that she has will be graduating from a BA in Archaeology with a First. It was a close...
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Home-made blanket box
This is what my husband has been working on for several weeks now, and it has cost him virtually nothing apart from £10 to have the fretwork straps on the top cut out. The wood - it's made from solid...
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Sunday, Sunday . . .
Backtracking a bit to last Sunday, when K and I did a car boot sale attached to a Vintage Car Show on the showground down in the village. A couple of showers came along to annoy, but overall it was...
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Rain stopped play
It has chucked it down nearly all day. I am bored so I thought I would do an extra blog post to make up for the lack of them in recent weeks (and in fear of losing broadband with such persistent...
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BT - I'm giving up the will to live . . .
I won't even go there. We lose Broadband every time it rains because BT have renagued on their closing the road/cutting back trees/replacing short telegraph poles and replacing the damaged length of...
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"Old" things in the kitchen
I have a lot of them. I've never been averse to second hand stuff - you have to cut your coat according to your cloth after all, though sadly, many young folk have never been taught this and think...
View ArticleHoliday Time
Well, we had no internet at home last week again after we had torrential rain. I did some research before we lost it to find out about the BT complaints system, and found some very useful information...
View ArticleRainy days . . .
Morning all from a wet New Forest. I wish I could include some photos with this but that will have to wait. So will this blog, as when I return home, BT have announced that the line won't be fixed...
View ArticleSaying goodbye to my mum
I think this is my 500th post, so it is only fitting that I write about something important to me, and very personal. This time when we came to the New Forest, I brought my mum's ashes with me. She...
View ArticleA Country Harvest
I found this book in one of the Ringwood charity shops and the moment I set eyes on it, I knew it would be coming home with me. It is subtitled "An illustrated Guide to Herbs and Wild Plants, including...
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Take two little girls!
I will go back a week or so and share with you a photo of two happy little girls demonstrating that churches are for playing hide and seek in. Honest! Keith and I had a lovely time at GTM's house, and...
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Who am I? in 7 words tag . . .
Mags over at Life in the Preseli Hills has tagged me t describe myself in just 7 words. I shall try and rise to the challenge . . .1. Firstly how can I say 'Doesn't suffer fools gladly' in one word...
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Farleigh Hungerford Castle
As we were travelling down to Hampshire (via North Dorset), we came upon Farleigh Hungerford Castle, and of course, couldn't resist stopping to explore. It covers quite a considerable site, and the...
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Where's Snowy?
I could hear him. He was in the kitchen somewhere. Was he in the cupboard? No. Was he on a chair? No. Was he under the sink? No. I knew he was there somewhere.I hunted high and low, and then I found...
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Knowlton Church and Henge Monument
Scabious dancing in the breeze on the banks of Knowlton henge monument.We visited Knowlton church and henge on our way to the Viking Re-enactment at Cranborne on the first day of our recent holiday....
View ArticleYou'd know her if you saw her!
This has been copied from Genuki Devon's list of Absconders 1800 - 1821:CautionWhereas, Elizabeth, the Wife of Ambrose Shere, of Cullompton, Devon, did on the 29th day of August last, (being the...
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Viking Re-enactment Day
This is a wonderful multi-period permanent site at Cranborne. There are wonderful houses from past period including an Iron Age Round House, a Roman building, a Grubenhaus (or SFB - Sunken Feature...
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Llanfynydd Show
This little steam engine was made from scratch by our neighbour. The next five tractors beyond it down the line also belong to him and have been/are being restored by him.The top four are his . . .I...
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Today's car boot sale
K and I went to the car boot sale this morning and struck lucky with several items. I found another copy of a book I already have, which worked out well as a gift for a friend and I found a seperate...
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SCREAMING LOUDLY
I don't believe this - Google Blogger is giving me so much trouble accessing this account, and I STILL can't change my old e-mail addy to the new one as since I have had to start another blog -...
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