My uncertain selection of Desert Island Discs

 Sarah copied Ben and I’m copying Sarah. Please feel free to copy me in any way you feel you would like to. The easiest ways to be like me are to waffle nonsense, be socially inept on a regular basis, whinge a lot, be indecisive and watch too much TV.
Anyway, I’m going to stick to [...]

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Grey day

It’s not raining today. It has been quite grey for most of the day, with occasional patches of sunshine. I am sorry to say that I haven’t been for any walks today. I went for my blood test this morning and spent quite a lot of time standing around waiting, but I don’t think that [...]

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The rain falls

Yes, it does! It is extremely wet and windy here this morning. Yuck. I’m a bit worried about the newly planted-out peppers, because they have been soaked twice in the last two days. I’m not sure whether too much water is good for them. The poor pansies and the lavender have been battered down and [...]

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A visit to the Library of Doom (and the doctor)

Today I’ve had an adventurous day, well, for me anyway. I went into the Library of Doom to test out whether or not I could walk from the railway station to the library without falling over. Not literally, but you know what I mean (I hope). Happily, I managed to get from the station to [...]

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A short whinge

I’m not doing very well this week. I haven’t achieved very much, not that I’m supposed to be achieving things, but I still feel that I should be doing something useful, that isn’t sitting about watching television/listening to the radio/faffing about on the computer. I have done less of this latter this week (that is [...]

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Internet gremlins strike again

I am having a strange and annoying time with my Internet connection at the moment. On Sunday it worked perfectly well for a while, then decided to stop displaying certain  web pages. It liked the BBC and Google, but not much else. I did the Windows diagnostic checking thing and it couldn’t find anything wrong, [...]

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Meet the parents

As regular readers will be aware, I spent last week at my parents’ house. Although there were some highlights, like the two choir practices, playing the piano, walking and seeing relatives and friends, I found the week surprisingly stressful. It was a bit like visiting a foreign country and not knowing the customs or language of [...]

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The (not so) funky Gibbons

I think I might have given up with NaBloPoMo for May. So easily defeated, I know. I am still attempting to write reasonably regularly, but I’m not going to lose any sleep if I don’t manage to post every day.
On Friday night I went to my mum’s church choir practice. Again, I was really there [...]

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Pianoforte

Sorry, I have missed another day’s posting. I wrote some of this post yesterday, but didn’t finish it because Dad wanted to use the computer and I felt that I had hogged it for too long already.
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Today, in between visiting friends with a small baby and visiting my grandparents, I have been playing the piano. I [...]

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The thump-thump…

…as Jack Sparrow  would call it. I call it my heart, and it is thumping. Not for any particular reason, that’s just its new way of beating. It used to shh, now it thumps. This is a good thing, because hearts are not supposed to shh. However, my heart seems to be making up for its [...]

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