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We’re getting rather overcrowded. No, I don’t mean the nine cats. Or the ever-bigger dogs. It’s the llamas I’m talking about. Even though we are now expecting one baby fewer this year, some of the llamas are still beginning to … Continue reading
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Trap Happy
Job Done! Both female kitten-cats (hastily named Fifi and Lula, because the vet does like to have names to put on the animals’ records, and we used up the Big Cat/Little Cat/Mother Cat/Tom Cat options long ago) are at this … Continue reading
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Where the Wild Things Were
Having given up work with the intention of freeing ourselves from the Tyranny of the Deadline, we seem to do a remarkably good job of creating them for ourselves. The latest one is my next planned trip to Ingurland, this … Continue reading
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More or Less
One of the problems with me buggering off to Ingurland so frequently to revel in my still fresh-feeling Grandmotherhood, is that Simon gets to spend a lot of time on his own. And when he spends a lot of time … Continue reading
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Grandmother’s Footsteps
When I was a child, with all the time in the world and an empty road to play in with my friends, one of our favourite street games was “Peep Behind the Curtain” (aka Grandmother’s Footsteps; Red Light, Green Light). … Continue reading
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No Time – Like The Present
There is no doubt about it. The older you get, the quicker time passes. And the quicker time passes, the less of it there is in which to get stuff done. This is my latest philosophical excuse for the huge … Continue reading
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