Posted By Judith on 25th December 2014
Our Schlumbergera, or to give it it’s more common name Christmas Cactus, has always had a bit of an identity crisis. We must have had it 30 years, and I can never remember it flowering at Xmas.
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Posted By Judith on 20th December 2014
You might have noticed I haven’t written much about home improvements or D.I.Y recently. Well that’s because we haven’t done any. We’ve hit the wall, run out of steam, in short we’re mentally and physically shattered. So I thought it might be a nice idea to take a look back at 2014.
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Posted By Judith on 15th December 2014
You could be forgiven for thinking that this is going to be about some larey dessert dreamed up by the infamous Mr Blumenthal, or else a children’s party that has gone disastrously wrong. Well you’d be wrong on both counts, it’s actually about the NHS!
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Posted By Judith on 9th December 2014
I hope so, because this is a long one, on my very favourite subject, NPower.
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Posted By Judith on 30th November 2014
Most children in the UK will have grown up with the BBC TV kids programme Blue Peter. One of it’s most endearing features was, and probably still is, showing children how to make things, whilst explaining how homemade toys can be just as much fun as bought ones and homemade gifts are unique, not to mention both being a good deal cheaper than ‘shop bought’. So in the best Blue Peter tradition we decided to ‘make’ 4 table lamps.
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Posted By Judith on 26th November 2014
I like gardening and I just love trees. I don’t know where these two passions come from as neither of my parents had green fingers.
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Posted By Judith on 18th November 2014
Remember back in April the ‘fall-out’ when we cut down the hedge to half it’s size?
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Posted By Judith on 12th November 2014
At our age we should have known better, but I’m afraid we didn’t. What am I talking about? Read on.
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Posted By Judith on 9th November 2014
‘If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England.’
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Posted By Judith on 8th November 2014
With just under 7 weeks to go to the ‘big’ day (bah humbug) I’m not suffering from an early bout of Xmas song overload, honest, and here’s why.
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