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The tooth, the (no longer) whole tooth…

September 13, 2020 By Ellen

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, […]

Pictures from my slightly widening world…

June 22, 2020 By Ellen

Ok, you’ve rumbled me. I can’t get my head into writing a whole actual post – even one that doesn’t promise anything meaningful. Instead, you can have some photos. It was barbecue time again. Very smoky and somewhat, erm, well-fired. But at least it was warm and dry. Boy Two was the chef again. He’s […]

Pictures of recent days

June 14, 2020 By Ellen

The days are merging into each other so I thought I’d mark in photos… There was the day we met a family of geese. There was the day Boy Three decided that what I really needed was an emergency poncho. There was the day I decided to channel Little House on the Prairie hair do. […]

What did you do at the weekend?

September 24, 2018 By Ellen

Anyone else over 50 find it takes considerable effort to answer this one? A grinding of gears and a cranking look round at the two days of domesticity and idleness peppered by parental duties. “Pretty quiet. Nice, though,” does the job. I suppose no one is really that interested in anyone’s weekend until the answer […]

Snow, in January, who’d have thought?

January 17, 2018 By Ellen

I’m looking out on what has been called, of late and on social media, a winter wonderland, but what, in reality, is what you’d expect to see at this time of year, in this part of the country. If your community needs help clearing the roads and sidewalks that are burred in snow, call on […]