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The things we learned in Donegal

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We’re still shaking the sand out of our turn-ups because last week we harnessed the Bundance pony and trotted off to Ireland.    Here’s what we learned:    Boo: Hanging out in the dunes at Ards Forest Park   Ireland is warm and sunny. Yes, really. Every day we were there we regretted not bringing […]

Things we learned in Chester

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Serendipity was on our side this week. First, that we were in Chester at all and secondly that, more or less, everything we attempted worked out well.  In our case it began with a rota fail (not, mercifully an aeronautical term). The Panther of News didn’t manage to get the bit of the Easter holidays […]

88/365 zagging when everyone’s zigging

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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 […]

Nigella Lawson, the game is up

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Nigella (Saima via Flickr) I was really looking forward to the day, my first domestic day for months, this year even. It was the a long holiday weekend and there has been a steady slide from the full tilt of normal life. It was Easter so we planned visits to gran’s, lunch with pals, Cbeebies live […]