Jennie Finch on the seafront at Saltburn.
I’m sitting at my desk and enjoying a rare sight through the window – the sun is shining. We’ve had rather a lot of rain over the past few weeks, as I think a lot of you have. Here it has veered from long, sullen downpours to bursts of hail mixed with sudden bright spots. […]
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Well, we’ve had quite an exciting – and rather busy – time these last few weeks. Halloween is fast approaching and autumn is definitely here. It’s stamping its mark on all around us, sometimes with a bit more force than we expected. On the plus side, the wood is looking good and unusually for this […]
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It’s a few weeks away from the changing of the clocks and we are hunkering down ready for winter. Days are noticeably shorter, of course. The first storms are gearing up for some excitement to come and the first frosts have appeared in the morning. In a rural and relatively isolated house hunkering down involves […]
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Hello and welcome to a most crowded few weeks. There is supposedly a Chinese curse – may you live in interesting times. Well, this is certainly one of those interesting times for us. Let me begin with the book news, on several fronts. I “attended” the virtual meeting last week and along with half a […]
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Autumn is very much on its way in here and there are changes all around. Things are leaving and new things coming, some welcome and others less so. The past week has seen more and more swifts around the house. They line up on the electricity lines in the evening, all pointing in the same […]
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Every Saturday evening we have a special meal, eaten at the table with the “nice” china. That dates us, doesn’t it? And every week we raise a glass and say “What a week!” Well, yes, once more this has been very busy and challenging. We are still moving on – moving in fits and starts […]
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Well, it’s August again so some things are the same as last year and some are rather different. The schools are closed, of course, and the shops are now filled with families dragging around behind tired parents. Small children run up and down the supermarket aisles demanding toys or their choice of dinner. Here there […]
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When we moved here and “retired” – at least from full time paid employment – we expected to have more free time. There are quiet days but more often times when there’s a bit too much going on. Take this last fortnight. A roller coaster of events and emotions have swept us up and left […]
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I know we say it every week but – what a few days we have had. Despite our planning and clever sequencing things never go smoothly but we are lucky – very lucky – in our friends and workmen. Despite the weather and the constraints of equipment hire and labour they really came through last […]
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Those of you who have followed this adventure from the start will know the move, over 18 months ago, was close to being a disaster. This is especially true for “my” side of it as the decisions I had to make and the sheer volume of stuff I had overwhelmed me. I ended up taking […]
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