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Ryanair Roulette
Any readers who are frequent partakers of the dubious benefits of budget airlines may be familiar with the curious activity known hereabouts as Ryanair Roulette. For those of you well-placed enough not to find your travelling selves regularly at the … Continue reading
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840 hours
Five weeks have passed since Simon’s last (and notably brief) post. Which means that Baby William (aka Wild Bill) is now five weeks old, and his parents feel considerably more than five weeks older. After a honeymoon period of a … Continue reading
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Estimated Times of Arrival
Later today I will be flying to England to begin a month’s visit, planned to coincide with the birth of my second grandchild. The thinking processes involved in deciding which flights to book reminded me of the unpredictability of Life, … Continue reading
Out with a Gurgle
2011 may have been an exceptionally dry year, but its final twenty-four hours did their best to put things right. The morning of the last day of the year found gushing rivers where tracks were supposed to be, and ponds … Continue reading
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Wishing it could be Christmas every day
How very odd. Our uneventful and largely unfestive Christmas Day turned out to be a Very Lovely Day Indeed. It really was a tremendously ordinary sort of day. All the animal-related tasks got done in the usual way at the … Continue reading
A Not-Christmas Story
It was the night before the night before Christmas. Snow was not falling softly on the dark and empty landscape, and no angelic sound of distant carol-singers rolled in breezy breaths over the bereft fields from the silent, unlit village. … Continue reading