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Friday Links

Posted on April 20, 2018 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! It’s been a sunnier week and as a consequence, I’ve been in a sunnier mood! It’s also been a busy week, I’ve been sowing things and trying to use my evenings better, but it’s also been manic at … Continue reading →

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Mayonnaise

Posted on April 19, 2018 by nicdempsey

What foods do you always have in the house? You know the ones that your cooking and eating are built around? Mayonnaise is not one of those foods in my house, at best I bought it because I needed it … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: All by myself

Posted on April 18, 2018 by nicdempsey

This week, I was abandoned by the weeder-in-chief, who seems to think she should have a social life. I don’t know, parents nowadays.. (although she spent my childhood telling us that she “was put on this earth to me, not … Continue reading →

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The Joy of Bathing

Posted on April 17, 2018 by nicdempsey

I have taken to a nightly bath. I’ve been trying to do something about my lack of sleep and a bath is relaxing, in part because rinsing the bath is easier than tidying up after a shower! Baths seems inherently … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany

Posted on April 16, 2018 by nicdempsey

Happy Monday and welcome to the 106th day of the year! There are another 259 days left in 2018, so I’m going to try and make this one good! Also on this day in 1963, Martin Luther King wrote his … Continue reading →

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Photo of the week

Posted on April 14, 2018 by nicdempsey

This week’s photo was taken on Monday and about sums it up. The BT Tower vanishing into fog…

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Friday Links

Posted on April 13, 2018 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I trust we all made it to the end of the work week with health and sanity more or less intact, even if it’s just blu-tacked together at this point? And for those of you that don’t work … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Ready to grow

Posted on April 11, 2018 by nicdempsey

The weather is getting everyone down, my lovely allotment neighbour Joe, says that he thinks it’s been the worse spring he can remember since he had the plot and he’s had the plot as long as I’ve been alive! We … Continue reading →

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What I’ve Read – February and March 2018

Posted on April 10, 2018 by nicdempsey

I’ve been going through the last couple of months, feeling that reading has been tricky this year. I started the year with a couple of books that I loved (Elinor Oliphant, The Hate U Give, Iron Gold) and have felt … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany

Posted on April 9, 2018 by nicdempsey

Morning! I hope you are all ready to start another week, I’m always ready and never quite ready, there is always too much to entertain me at home! Which is probably how you should feel about where you live, I … Continue reading →

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