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Things I learned today – Birthdays, basics and bosoms

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Covid, house moves, sons hitting landmark birthdays, the loss of my Booths card… times that are unforgettable to the point of interesting. 2020. As another surprise, you can go to a wine school that teaches via virtual classes. They discuss what is a freestanding wine cooler and many more. There have been surprises at every […]

The tooth, the (no longer) whole tooth…

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There’s a sort of ‘finding’ feeling at the moment. Finding my way home, finding my way around, and finding myself again. All of which sounds a bit navel gazey, but suggests there might be a little more time in my life for gazing in general. Which is a good thing. Meanwhile… What’s that? Oh yes, […]

Returning home and starting again

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“You know, you look just like your dad,” she said. “Not your mum, your dad. It’s the shape of your face.” A harmless enough comment, you’d have thought. But then my dad died 13 years ago, and it’s been much longer than that since I regularly bumped into (non-family) people who knew him. And I […]

More questions than answers, history and things I noticed

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There’s an ‘end of’ feeling about matters here at the Palace of Bundance. And not before time on many fronts… In the absence of a proper post, here’s more from the the latest batch of photos. Owners of large goldfish must swallow their disappointment. I stumbled on this small ad this week. It should have […]