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Load More...Summer 22: many wonderful things coming to fruition from tomato plants to book covers 🧡 But, I have been working my socks off on every front 🤪 so this is me signing off from social media until Sept. See you after the swifts have gone and the cupboards are full of bramble jam 👋
4Morning, happy Friday! If, like me, it’s not quite your weekend yet-congratulations on making it this far!
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I’m over at Tell Tales 10.30am-6pm today. Lots of brilliant books for children. Do come &have a browse or send me a message if I can help with anything.
Les xx
Tag Archives: christmas
Too soon
I spoke too soon. Our brief foray into normality has been brought back down to earth with a bump… the school Christmas play is off! And you can guess why… rising numbers of Covid. There was me bemoaning Christmas songs … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Making changes
Tagged christmas, Christmas play, Covid, new job
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Time flies
It only seems five minutes ago that I was handing out burgers at the school fireworks display, cursing anyone who asked for onions, which are never easily served at speed and in the dark! So, I had to pinch myself … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, bike, children's author, christmas, fireworks, frost, Hannah Foley, leaves, november, school play, writer
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Merry Christmas
On Sunday morning I trundled out on my rounds, listening to Sunday Worship on Radio 4. The service came from St David’s in Pembrokeshire. After all the bad news of recent days it was comforting to hear Welsh words spoken, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged bird feeder, car driving, carols, christmas, clinical incident form, community nurse, COVID-19, darkest day, district nursing, Exeter cathedral, garden birds, happy new year, merry christmas, National Trust, pembrokeshire, Pob bendith, pressure sore, pressure ulcer, Radio 4, seed orders, spring bulbs, St DAvids, stove, Sunday, Sunday Worship, support stockings, thank you, turning of the year, Wales, weekend working, wing mirror, winter sun
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Christmas cards
This year, instead of sending Christmas cards, we are giving a donation to Devon-based charity ARC. ARC is a homelessness and addiction charity. Big Dreamer is a trustee for them so we can say, hand on heart, with insider knowledge, … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Uncategorized
Tagged 2020, addiction, ARC, charity, christmas, christmas cards, Christmas wishes, donation, happy christmas, homelessness
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Smash
In the absence of all the usual activities leading up to Christmas, we have been searching out other options to get us in the festive mood. A local garden centre is famed for its Christmas lights so we headed there … Continue reading
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Tagged baubles, carnivorous plant, christmas, Christmas lights, coffee, COVID-19, decorations, family outing, feeling festive, garden centre, hot tub, mince pie, santa, venus flytrap
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Wet towels
I left the towels on the line for three days before I gave in and brought them in to dry indoors. The days have been full of fog and mist down here in the South West. Yesterday we drove out … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged christmas, Christmas tree, combe, countryside, COVID-19, December, devon, England, family, fog, mist, oak tree, ridgeway, southwest, swing, towels, tree, tyre swing, walk, wood
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Queen Elsa and the Three Kings
Little Owl and I spent a morning on the allotment planting out strawberry runners on a bare patch and putting the dahlias to bed. None of the old chaps dig their dahlias up for the winter so we’ve followed their … Continue reading
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Tagged allotment, angle, broad beans, carol concert, christmas, Christmas Fayre, Christmas party, COVID-19, dahlias, manure, Mums, nativity, winter, zoom
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Happy New Year!
The festive holidays were bookended by headlice and a stomach bug. In between I didn’t have much of a break, juggling nursing with another round of edits. Still, we had a lovely time seeing family and friends. I think we … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things, Making changes
Tagged 2020, break, christmas, festive, fresh air, gardening, grasses, headlice, holidays, indulgence, juggling, moon, new year, nursing, parenting, purple skies, seed catalogues, simple, solstice, stomach bug, sunset, winter, wonder
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Merry Christmas
At the weekend we completed our annual ritual of walk in the woods, sausage sandwiches in a twinkly barn, and Christmas tree purchase from the Dartmoor Park Rangers. Once home, we put on some Christmas tunes, fired up the wood … Continue reading
Cards
As you can see Finch has been working hard on his Christmas cards. Each one has had extensive illustration work done throughout. It’s taken him a loooong time but finally they are ready to go out to his classmates. In … Continue reading
