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Footnotes to Our Hay-Day
Hay is nasty stuff. Anyone who harbours romantic notions of making love among the haystacks has clearly not spent a lot of time in close, physical proximity to the evil entity. En masse, it is heavy, unpredictable, and hard to … Continue reading
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The Right Thing
Well…. I expect you’re all wondering where we are, what we’re doing and why we haven’t put anything on the blog for such a long time. In fact, it’s been SUCH a long time since we posted anything, you could … Continue reading
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Henfight at the OK Corral
The following day, after finally emptying the horse box of our four field gates, assorted spare fence posts and pieces of wood “that might come in handy one day”, and all the other remaining junk that we ridiculously decided to … Continue reading
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Procrastination, Plumbing and Poultry
The trouble with All the Time in the World is that it can so easily become a seed-bed for procrastination. And when one suddenly finds oneself harboured safe from the stormy shipwreck of a stressful relocation, floating free from imminent … Continue reading
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Moving In
When we arranged the furniture removal from Roquetaillade, we had hoped that it could be delivered to our new house on Tuesday – the day after Completion. But we had once again found ourselves moving in the middle of a … Continue reading
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Wake-Up Time
Monday arrives too soon, in a haze of early morning mist. From the window of the guest bedroom in Mike and Suzanne’s house, we can see the lovely sight of many llamas, including ours, grazing on the lush green grass. For once, … Continue reading
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