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Our hibiscus has flowered again, I bought it in June for Sweetheart on our wedding anniversary, we have been surprised how it has kept flowering through the months, but we didn’t think it would b...

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After two days of cold winds today has been mild for a December day, the decorations have been up in Perranporth since last weekend, so I didn’t park in the Co-op car park; the back car park is f...

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Getting out of the car after the last watercolour class of this term, I noticed the stars across the dark sky, they were surprisingly bright as they were sharing the sky with the waxing Moon, the...

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December is here and we have three classes left, our last Watercolour class is to night, we have a winter subject to paint, with watercolour paint you don’t paint in the snow; just the bits that ...

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but the Odyssey remains …….. First seen in 1968 Stanley Kubrick’s film ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’ has been released again 46 years on, a film that tells a story with out words, a film we all have o...

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Tugce Albayrak is the student who didn’t turn her back when two girls were being harassed by a group of men, later one of the men returned and attacked her, Tugce was left in a coma, her parents ...

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Life seems to be getting stranger, sitting at my computer last night I heard a series of bangs, I say bangs but the sounds were odd as when I first them I thought it was water dripping! I went in...

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Today I know where I was thirty nine years ago, through the day we were in London, more looking than shopping, it was a day trip organized by Morris’s of Shrewsbury; Mum worked there! We left Shr...

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Those two frosty days we had early in the week are now showing there effect, the canopy around here has remained fairly intact but looking rather aged; a sort of hanging on I suppose! When I was ...

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Yesterday I awoke to frost on the cars, under foot was ok, so I was able to walk down the drive with the waist-bins; much better than sliding down. Today awoke to frost most every where, under f...

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A Little Good News. I didn’t see the race, I was else where as the last Grand Prix of 2014 was played out in Dhabi, Lewis Hamilton has earned his second World Championship F1 Grand Prix; nice to ...

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Mr Turner was the film I thought it would be, well acted and wonderful visuals. A lot of work went into getting the look right, it was a time before electric lighting, so lighting inside was from...

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Me being me I have forgotten the name plant, it was one of three flowering plants I bought for Sweetheart on our wedding anniversary in June, They all flowered well through summer, some where alo...

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The blustery day has arrived [said Pooh] a quick view through the window and I saw the dry brown autumn leafs dancing round in circles. Winter or still autumn, I’m not sure but the year is getti...

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I dread what the Christmas adverts will be like once we are in Advent, here we are in mid November and the festive sell is in full swing, we have had all manor of perfect Christmas’s paraded befo...

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Lola dislikes going out in the rain, which was a problem last night as it started raining just before darkness, come midnight looking out through the kitchen window I could see stare rods in the ...

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As days in mid November go today was wonderful, no rain what so ever; but we did have mostly clear skies with of course winter sunshine! With this lovely day you would think I would be out with a...

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It was very wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet wet...

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Ante Meridiem. Could be a where is my right shoe situation …… The approach to the agility field as been difficult in most winters, last winter being the worst; we didn’t have classes for nine wee...

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Perhaps Banksy’s Clacton mural could now stand along side of Sutherland’s portrait of Sir Winston Churchill, both destroyed soon after there creation. It is thought the portrait of Churchill was ...

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Stood in the bathroom my toothbrush loaded and ready I stopped and listened, a gust of wind was disturbing the bushes and trees, and riding with the wind was a plentiful amount of rain; I stood a...

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At first look out side it could be another dull day, on second look I could see waves of fine rain carried on in the wind; those wet waves of fine rain blow through the valley. Those who enjoyed ...

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We have found the little trick that seems to get the works here every day, it is not clearing the cars from the drive, for a few weeks we were up with the lark; there quite lazy in Cornwall! My c...

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Ziggy has been laying low tonight, I didn’t hear any lighting or fireworks, of course Ziggy’s hearing is very much more sensitive than mine! He had been l on the floor under the window, some time...

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Our first Sunday in October and the sun is shining at lest in Perranporth, near to Newquay the weather wasn’t quite so bright there, and the overnight rain had dun nothing to improve the entrance...

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