Having planned to pretty much go nowhere today I was forced into a trip to Lavenham to avoid Christmas being cancelled (because some numpty broke the corkscrew and couldn't find the spare). Actually, it was really pleasant, not crowded, everyone in the festive mood, corkscrew speedily purchased at the lovely shop in the market square where, in ( Read more... )

Sorry, simply not enough hours in the day or days in the week to keep up here at the moment, I've gone from Ofsted to post Ofsted catch up to Dashing to France and then chasing the snow back to a week of heavy snow and working flat out trying to keep the service running, a quick whizz through Twitter and Facebook have been the limit of my online ( Read more... )

A frosty start this morning, so nice not to have to leap out and defrost the car but to just potter around gently doing some of the household stuff that needs keeping up with ( laundry, tidying, bin emptying, hot washing the feral feeding bowls). At about 11 we pottered into Lavenham in search of the chicken ( you may recall that the Boy bought me ( Read more... )

The last time the global gag rule was enacted clinics providing contraception and health care closed all over the world, abortion rate went up 40%, women died! That's not pro life ( Read more... )

The right to peaceful protest is enshrined in democracy. It's one way of getting your voice heard and reminding the government that they were elected to govern all, not just those who voted for them. Having been part of many a peaceful protest myself I have often been infuriated when news coverage ignored the thousands of us who were protesting ( Read more... )

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them..Today I use my LJ as a memorial for some of the people behind the statistics; People who lived, loved. were loved; whose loss was deeply mourned, who were and are so much more ( Read more... )

House clean got interrupted by deep consideration of what to put in the place of a picture in the bedroom which needs to go for reframing. Much wandering round the house, rummaging through the spare pictures box and deciding that all the glass and frames on the pictures in the main room needed a good cleaning
( there are a lot of them so that was ( Read more... )

Just had a sad little funeral service for a kitten, a tiny little black feral kitten no more than a month old. Her stronger tabby sibling is in the stable where I found this one. Their mum seems to be the little black one which we had spayed last week and since she brought the little Tabby kit over at feeding time last night I know this wasn't a ( Read more... )

I want to make something clear ( Read more... )

June 2nd 1984. Our wedding day.

Sometimes it feels like a lifetime ago and sometimes it feels like yesterday.


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