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Snowy and smug!

Friday, November 30th, 2012

So that’s it then. Winter is well and truly with us. The ski resorts will be pleased. We’ve had a moderate little dump of snow – 6 inches or so – and as usual all services carried on as usual, no late trains, closed schools or car accidents as a result. The Swiss certainly know […]

Snowy and smug!
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Grubbing around on the floor

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

I can’t put it off any longer. What? (you may well ask!) The worst job in making a quilt. Basting it all together. I really truly hate it. I get cricks in my back and my neck, my knees hurt and almost invariably, by the time I get through and turn the package over there […]

Grubbing around on the floor
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The view from my bedroom window

Monday, November 26th, 2012

This morning. And yes, I was hanging out of the window at a death defying angle to get the photo! I’d say that rainbow was wishing me luck for the week, wouldn’t you! Helen

The view from my bedroom window
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A teensy weensy panic

Monday, November 26th, 2012

This weekend it finally struck me what the date was and what that meant and quite what I have to do before THE BIG DAY! I guess that’s the trouble when you like to make at least some of the gifts you give to people! I confess that I had the teeny weeniest of panics. […]

A teensy weensy panic
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Bee-wildered…..what would you do?

Sunday, November 25th, 2012

I have a little problem I’d like to put before you. I don’t want to blow it out of proportion, because at the end of the day, it’s just not that big of a deal, but I’d really like to know what you would do in my situation 🙂 I’m in several bees – and […]

Bee-wildered…..what would you do?
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