Horatio goes outside for the first time (18 October 2007)

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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Not very still waters... (13 November 2010)

Brain dump

The wild birds are eating me out of house and home. The squirrels are helping, little bastards. The landlords say they’ve never seen so many birds around the place. Everyone is enamoured by the three different woodpecker families. The bullfinch …
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Ent? Or Ent-wife? Found hiding in Iffley Village, Oxford (14 April 2006)

Twenty seven point two

This afternoon, I finally got round to setting my new yes-I’m-a-geek-don’t-mock-me bike computer and took it (and the bike, obviously) out for spin this afternoon. I left the dog at home as not only was she due a rest, but …
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