Blow raspberries at cycling woes

1:26pm Thursday 23rd October 2008

IN THE last few weeks my face has changed colour so many times that I am contemplating contacting Dulux and offering myself as a walking colour chart.

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Running back the years

1:20pm Thursday 23rd October 2008

HUSBAND’S birthday arrives and friends are gathered for a night on the town.

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Harcombe

1:32pm Thursday 9th October 2008

WHEN I was five-years-old I pulled a rude face at a woman who worked in a shop in my home town. When we got home my mother (who had obviously decided not to have a scene in public) told me that we would go back that afternoon so that I could apologise.

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High spirits in Devon

11:56am Thursday 9th October 2008

THE late arrival of summer coincided with a weekend trip to a manor house in Devon.

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Freezer folly is exposed

11:49am Thursday 9th October 2008

RETURN to Gifford’s Circus after a two-year absence and am delighted to see that some things have not changed. Tweedy the clown and the fiddle playing tightrope walker are still wowing the crowds and as always the lines between surrealism and reality are heavily blurred.

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Embracing the big chill

9:48am Friday 26th September 2008

AUTUMN is having a liberating effect on me. I spent every day of the summer watching the weather forecast for a hint of blue sky and sun and felt cheated as one miserable week followed another.

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Back to school blues

9:37am Friday 26th September 2008

SO THAT is that. Summer holidays are over. Labels have been sewn into school shirts and shiny new shoes are just waiting for their first scuff.

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Vegetables go for gold

2:35pm Thursday 14th August 2008

OLYMPIC fever is sweeping though our house. Daughter is particularly engrossed in the Games and has seen the potential for unlimited adoration and sweets that a place in the squad can bring.

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A bubbly antidote to wet camping

9:45am Thursday 7th August 2008

ONE week into the summer holidays and the children are slowly learning to chill out.

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Is it just me or is this scheme rubbish?

10:37am Wednesday 6th August 2008

MORE fun and games with the garbage collection at Harcombe.

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