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93/365 new season arrives with a streak

April 3, 2013 By Ellen

About the point we give up and resign ourselves to permanent winter, spring bowls in as if nothing had happened. “What, me? Late? You must be mistaken.” And as usual spring encourages people to rashly resume neglected sports and join queues at the garden centre. Flesh is bared and barbecues stoked. But the most certain […]

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Are audiobooks cheating?

April 2, 2013 By Ellen

Pleased to meet you: The moment when Jean Paget claps eyes on Joe Harman in the 1956 film of A Town  Like Alice I’ve been taking my mind off the discomfort of my 10K training by listening to talking books.So far I’ve plodded my way through Dawn French’s Oh Dear Sylvia (a good tale that […]

Filed Under: 10k running, A Town Like Alice, Anna Stothard., audiobooks, Barbara Kingsolver, books, Dawn French, Denise Mina, reading, talking books

92/365 A computer bug

April 2, 2013 By Ellen

There are times when I think it would be lovely to work in an environment where people don’t Blu Tack caterpillars to the top of your computer screen when you aren’t looking. 

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Soldiers in Silloth – a serendipitous find

April 1, 2013 By Ellen

Marching orders: Boy Two soldiers on Once upon a time there was a boy called Tim who grew up in a seaside town called Silloth. Despite it’s obvious charms, there were moments when young Tim got a bit fed up with life on the Cumbrian riviera.  So one day he took himself off to the […]

Filed Under: Cumbria, museum, Soldiers of Silloth, Tim Barker

91/365 my boy lollypop

April 1, 2013 By Ellen

I’d say he had that one licked…

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90/365 getting to the top

March 31, 2013 By Ellen

  Posted with Blogsy

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89/365 nice here, innit?

March 30, 2013 By Ellen

We do like to be beside the seaside, even if it is a bit parky.   Posted with Blogsy

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88/365 zagging when everyone’s zigging

March 29, 2013 By Ellen

Easter’s a funny old time. Another one of those occasions when some of us decide we can pick and choose bits of a religion that suit us. And scoffing our faces with chocolate seems to suit a great many of us.  That didn’t mean to sound as preachy as it might have come across. I’m […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, easter, Richard Branson

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