K is for …
Kittens! Come on, admit it, you can’t resist. Or if you can, you have a heart of stone. Kindle I keep to-ing and fro-ing on the idea of an e-reader. I become far less sentimental about “real books” every time …
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
I and J are for …
Israel and Jerusalem Today’s news of further violence between Israel and the Palestinians has made my heart sink. Regardless of the rights and wrongs (and let’s face it, after such a prolonged history of violence, everybody is right and everybody …
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H is for …
History I stopped enjoying history lessons when the lessons stopped being about people. Well, my GCSE and A-Level teacher didn’t help matters either, but a subject that had hitherto fascinated me suddenly became inexplicably boring and I stopped working. It’s …
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G is for …
Glasses Having been diagnosed with astigmatism as a teenager, I should – in theory – wear glasses for reading and watching TV etc but I gave up on them when the conflict between my eyes’ version of what’s horizontal and …
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F is for …
Fresh fruit I love living on a fruit farm. Cherry season is sadly over but I made sure that I consumed a year’s worth before it was done. Now the plums are in full flow and the apples are just …
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E is for …
Elegance Some people have it. I do not. I think I ended up twice in the queue for “forgets names, addresses and birthdays”. Energy None today. Late night, early start, culmination of a long week. The dog’s officially fed up …
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D is for …
Dogs Don’t get me wrong, cats are wonderful animals, but if the world was divided into dog people and cat people, you’ll find me with the four-legged creatures who don’t think that it’s appropriate to kill and eat a bird …
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C is for …
Cake! Like it could be anything else! Alas, I have to be ultra-strict with myself these days. No cake, chocolate, ice cream or biscuits in the house, otherwise it tends to vanish at warp-speed. It would be fine if I …
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B is for …
Blue It is, I think, the most interesting colour. We “feel blue” and claim that blue rooms are cold, yet who can resist the beauty of the clear blue sea or fail to cheered by blue skies, whether on a …
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A is for …
A few weeks ago, I was pondering some sort of alphabetic blog post series but pondering was as far as it got. So when I caught up on some of my blog feeds earlier today and spotted Compost Woman’s Alphabet …
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