Category Archives: Life

Nothing Special

So. Christmas Day has come and gone. And all that pre-Christmas confusion I felt about the nature of the event has evaporated in the relaxing glow of Life After Christmas. I no longer feel the need to delve into my … Continue reading

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Brain Freeze

My, doesn’t time fly when you’re filling it with endless trips to the North Pole to break ice on frozen water buckets and take food to cold, hungry animals that have no way of getting their own, because some bugger … Continue reading

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Left to my own (de)vices

One of the very few things that I resent about our bouncy puppies is that they have robbed me of the regular chance to experience one of the greatest pleasures in Life. It isn’t that I really mind getting up … Continue reading

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The Way of Tat

Yesterday was a Special Day at Les Briconautes. For those of you unversed in the ways of French DIY, Les Briconautes is a shop where one can buy the sorts of things you might buy in B&Q, along with a … Continue reading

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Not Pigs, Again.

Here is another post not about pigs. Except to say that we still await the arrival of the phantom piglets. Oh, and Fogarty has learnt to sit on command, to get an acorn treat. Oh, and pigs are clearly capable … Continue reading

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More self sufficiency

Courtesy of a large ash tree that must have fallen several years ago, we are likely to be self sufficient for heating wood this winter. I’ve fitted a new chain to the chain-saw and dug out the splitting axe and … Continue reading

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