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(Non-llama) Drama
Just to keep the more avid readers up to date, following on from Val’s last post . . . Val has gone to the hospital with her daughter, contractions having started very early this morning. The latest text message from Val … 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
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
Just Like That
Well, more than a week has passed since my last cliff-hanging post, and I’m sure you’re all desperate to know what happened. Except, (because I have been so rubbish at updating the blog over the last few months) I don’t … Continue reading
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The Price of Patience
Oh My Word! What is this? A third blog post in two days? What’s going on? Well, the fact of the matter is that we are waiting. And it’s the sort of waiting that makes it very hard to get … Continue reading
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