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Friday Links: The Deep State

Posted on September 7, 2018 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! It’s been a big week for news! This was the train on the way home last night! I love London! Here are this week’s links… I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration. I’ve got to … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: You can’t garden with a migraine

Posted on September 5, 2018 by nicdempsey

This is a very short update because we were at the allotment less than an hour, I think. Things are starting to slow down, this was the first week there wasn’t a courgette in our produce collection. There were two … Continue reading →

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September Goals

Posted on September 4, 2018 by nicdempsey

So August was a really good month, my birthday, a week’s holiday, theatre, a bank holiday, epic cake making, a gin tasting and quieter trains. But August is gone and September is here. I kicked of September by attending a … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany: After the Wedding

Posted on September 3, 2018 by nicdempsey

Happy Monday! Things I have learnt this weekend, I apparently don’t age (this is not true but sweet of them to say so), the cake was fine, an evening spend dancing and drinking results in a Sunday migraine. To be … Continue reading →

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Sunday Music: I Saw Her Standing There – The Beatles

Posted on September 2, 2018 by nicdempsey

Yesterday, I went to a wedding. When we RSVP’d, we were asked to name a song that would get us dancing. Off the top of my head I chose this. Because who doesn’t love early Beatles?

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Recommendation: Sally Hansen Nail Rehab

Posted on September 1, 2018 by nicdempsey

One of the strange side effects of having an allotment is that it really improved my nails. In the first two summers of having the plot , my nails stop flaking and peeling, I think it’s something to do with … Continue reading →

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Friday Links

Posted on August 31, 2018 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Even though it’s been a short work week for me, I’m glad to get to the end of it! This weekend is busy and social, a wedding tomorrow, an allotment social on Sunday afternoon and drinks on Sunday … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: August and Everything After

Posted on August 29, 2018 by nicdempsey

We had a pretty good day at the plot this weekend. We harvested courgettes, crooknecks, tomatoes, chard, kale and herbs (basil, parlsey, thyme and mint).We also had to call time on the runner beans. They were great but had completely … Continue reading →

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Subtle Changes

Posted on August 28, 2018 by nicdempsey

I find that things for the house seem to happen all at once. I’ll bumble along thinking that I need to sort out x or y and then when I find one thing, it’s like my brain switches mode and … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany: Cake, all the cake…

Posted on August 27, 2018 by nicdempsey

I love Bank Holidays! Last week I had one of those London moments when my knowledge of history and my physical understanding of the geography of the city come together. I was walking past a very ugly BT building called … Continue reading →

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