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Friday Links: Gaslighting

Posted on June 21, 2025 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! The news is still dreadful and if anything is getting worse, but am I only one feeling completely gaslit by our world leaders? Israel has a right to self defence but they are the only state in the … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Some Good News

Posted on May 30, 2025 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Finally Chelsea won something and qualified for Champions League. Of course Chelsea Women did the domestic treble this season (at some point we’ll crack Europe as well). And I will take all of that! Here are this weeks … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: News, some of it good…

Posted on May 16, 2025 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Britain’s Roller-Coaster Ride to a Trade Deal With Trump I always like to see how things are reported in the US. ‘Hollowing out’: New Zealand grapples with an uncertain future as record numbers leave. Anecdotes are not data … Continue reading →

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Book Squee: A Bold Return to Giving a Damn – Will Harris

Posted on May 13, 2025 by nicdempsey

Will Harris runs a regenerative farm in rural Georgia and this book is about the land he farms and how and why he came to be farming it in the way he does and what his way of farming has … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Gardening as Housework

Posted on May 7, 2025 by nicdempsey

I still haven’t sown anything on the plot, as the amount of weeding and prep is still just insane! It’s all about weeding and tidying and it takes so much longer than I think it will. First let’s talk about … Continue reading →

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Allotment Adventures: Spring Springing

Posted on April 9, 2025 by nicdempsey

After two weeks of no allotment, I finally got to the plot at the weekend. I’m still very behind but the front of the plot looks pretty good. I spent 4 hours and I didn’t plant or sow anything, I … Continue reading →

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Monday Miscellany: Signs of Spring

Posted on March 3, 2025 by nicdempsey

Happy Monday! It’s March! I’m pretty sure that January was two days ago… We’ve started to get 10 hours of ‘daylight’ every day. It’s still England, so it’s very grey daylight but it has made a difference as I’ve started … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Election Fever…

Posted on June 14, 2024 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I’m really beginning to worry about the lack of thinking capacity and callousness of voters. Who are the people who think that Nigel Farage would make a good MP? Actually, I know some of them and it would … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Election

Posted on May 24, 2024 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! So it seems we are to have a General Election on 4th July. Bonus points to the protesters, who realising he was calling an election, played ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ through Rishi Sunak’s speech! I picked the … Continue reading →

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Amble by the Sea

Posted on May 21, 2024 by nicdempsey

Monday was my hit of Vitamin Sea!

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