So far it is not the worst snow I have seen in recent years, but everything seems to have ground to a halt. Schools closed, buses not running and many people (including me) sent home from work at lunch time. Having said it is not the worst snow, the roads are pretty bad [...]
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A Curious Incident…
On Saturday evening a good friend came round to visit. There was lots of chatting, board games and a demonstration of Japanese medical skills and the next thing I knew it was 4.30 in the morning!!
The result of this late night/early morning meant I was rather lethargic during Sunday morning. But I was forced to [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 7th 2013
This week’s prompt was “Leaving one year behind and going into the next“.
The last few years have always presented difficulties for me even though I have always cast out the old year with it’s problems and tried to bring in more positive outcomes for the incoming New Year.
This year for some reason I felt quite [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2013
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A Little Bit of Jools
I spent New Years Eve in a local Cantonese restaurant and then watched ‘Jools Annual Hootenany‘ with a glass of bubbly to see in the New Year. I couldn’t resist trying to take a few photos of the show. I have spent a lazy day reading and playing board games and now I [...]
24 Comments CherryPie on Jan 1st 2013
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2012 End of Year Review
At the time I was compiling my countdown to Christmas post at Vision and Verb, I mentioned some of the reasons why Britain should be proud of events that took place there in 2012.
In that post I didn’t mention I thought that 2012, despite one or two memorable occasions (such as meeting Ginnie and Astrid [...]
22 Comments CherryPie on Dec 31st 2012
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The Case of the Flickering Lights!
Yesterday, when I turned on one of the upstairs lights it started to flicker and I thought that the bulb had gone, so I switched the light off. When I turned it back on nothing happened and I was about to get another bulb when I realised that all the upstairs lights had [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 30th 2012
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Lunch for Friends
Yesterday some good friends visited for the afternoon, a good time was had by all.
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 29th 2012
