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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Pouring - hearts and clouds

The Sunday competition day seems a long time ago already! We had a great time and I wish it could be like that forever; it may be the last weekend that the five of us are together before Ivan goes off to college as he will shortly be off on the music festival circuit. Yesterday was manic and today I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sunday in the sunshine

Thanks for all of your kind comments; it's lovely that some of you missed me! I really missed all of you on Blogit too. It's a beautiful day here in East Anglia today. Susan and I went to pick up a paper and bread rolls from the village shop and I then cooked bacon and sausages for everyone. There's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 7, 2010

It's been three months

I have had some of the busiest weeks of my life since last writing here on Blogit. Ivan is all set for college in Guildford in September but, before he goes, he has a number of gigs with The Arrangement - the band that featured on television's Britain's Got Talent - and also 'V' and Reading music... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 3, 2010

Lazy afternoon

If the title is a sort of cross between Lazy Sunday Afternoon by the Small Faces and Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks, they both sort of some up my mood. Susan has had to go teaching, despite it being a Bank Holiday Monday today. She has another big exam session coming up and felt her students needed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Mini madness

Some years ago my brother in law drove a Mini. It was the old style and so very small and, like all babies, came with its own peculiar rattle. I remember him hairing around the Oxfordshire countryside with me as a passenger, hanging on to the sides and with what can only be described as a fixed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 30, 2010

Britain's Got Talent

I am so sorry not to have posted for so long but things have been even busier here than usual (and that's really saying something!) Susan has had a series of ballet exams and then a dance festival last weekend at the school in a little village down the road which Claire attends. Claire got a first... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 12, 2010

Families don't eat together

Another survey out today is suggesting that over one fifth of British families fail to sit down at the table to eat family meals together. I wasn't surprised by this given the growth of TV dinner culture and, more importantly, the fragmentation of so much of family life. My parents - with whom I've... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

I've been visiting my parents in Derbyshire

As some Blogit readers will recall, my parents moved up to Derbyshire about 18 months ago so that they could be closer to my sister. I've been staying with them for the weekend. Susan and I had been on hand for most of the last 15 years but whereas our children are still at home, making for a very... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

I am still here!

Hope you all had uplifting and peaceful Easter breaks? My business is building almost too quickly for me to be able to handle at the moment and it grieves me that I've been able to post so much less. It has also affected the progress of the novel! However, I am away in Derbyshire with my parents for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 19, 2010

Taxonomy

I have a new client which has been keeping me really busy this week I'm afraid. They have asked me to look at the search classifications on their (very large) documents site. I have to review the various headers (or nodes) and recommend contemporary names, keyword tags and synonyms. All of this is... Sign in to see full entry.

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