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... she doesn't like much and has always been astonished at the sort of things other people are interested in. When the media was abuzz ...

I cancelled solstice,  xmas and hogmanay but the lure of Chinese new year was too much, I make the appropriate animal gods and send them out...

  ... Greece was the word on our plane tickets at the end of September. We didn't want to be obvious and visit an idyllic island with sw...

It's a startlingly sunny day, I'm on my lunch break and take a seat to enjoy the unusual warmth and the sight of dazed-looking fresh...

Too fast that's where it went... The month featured a tale of two cats, one of them - an old friend - died, we will have her wake tomorr...

My work involves me spending time with people in a waiting room, sometimes they're quiet, other times they really want to chat. I've...

    July is the month for horse-cleaning.  I join in with the annual re-whitening of the Uffington horse in Oxfordshire. The horse was creat...

  Been looking after this cat lately, she has a tiny head and ears that fold down onto her head, she is very keen on 'meatsticks' - ...

January has been a bit draggy, scraggy and irritating... a bit like me  At the beginning of the month I started a conversation with a very b...

for me in  2023 there was rather too much dampness sad intervals  and toothache a weirdly hot 1st week of September a new king    the nice b...

That rain water flood that crashed through our roof in August - huge and dramatic - a Niagara event   Hadn't noticed the silent, secret...

Our house is situated on a crossroads, halfway down a hill. A wonky street light outside our gate is where people gather to sing songs, goss...

Mabon is the pagan celebration of the autumn equinox, the image associated with this holiday is a fruitful apple tree. My apple tree was fru...

  it came right into the house like the roof didn't even exist  the stairs became a waterfall what couldn't wait to come down the st...

The lure of bacon baps, donuts and quirky tableware was too much and she returned from Tokyo to come and stay with us for June and July.  Sh...

  I've not posted this month because I've been waiting to ungrump but it's clearly not going to happen before tomorrow.  I had a...

I lurk around noticeboards, if you click on the 'small ads' tag at the end of this post a host of posts around the subject will arri...

I was in London last month looking after a very hairy cat. My temporary home was a flat with  living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and ...

 = Top job in my feed today - not sure how offensive they want but I'll give it my best shot.   I've recently been keeping company w...

  Yesterday I drew a circle around a 'situations vacant' ad for a  'Senior Odour Consultant'  Then I went to our local pub a...

    This morning our local church hosted the Community Keeping Active Christmas Luncheon*.    For the luncheon I made a stack of salmon an...

Our plane back from Turkey landed at midnight, it was after 3am by the time the taxi dropped us home and we sleep-walked the last few yards ...

After the queen's funeral, the Man and I took a holiday. We stayed in a sleepy town on the Turkish coast,  lodging with our friend Selma...

Maybe it was the declining state of our Prime Ministers - thinking that things could get no worse after Boris, she then welcomed Ms Truss an...

  Soon after my last post Maria came to stay.      Everything about Maria was twice life size - her hair, her smile ... and her suitcases. A...

I'm at my favourite swimming place, eavesdropping as usual and this floats through ... he made the most delicious ice cream .... my ears...

precipitated a plethora of Jolly Events at the beginning of the month. Inhabitants of my parent's village show their love for all the qu...

This month I was a theatrical landlady, a doting daughter and a Cornish-cat sitter for one lazy cat and his lively sister. The lively one...

He said : May is my favourite month   I thought you liked September, September is definitely the best month September's ok but May is be...

  They are on tour with the Lion King - a cause for huge excitement around here.    Offstage man is slight and seemingly quiet, he nibbles o...

  Last week I travelled to Staffordshire where I attended a funeral. I had met Uncle Lewis a couple of times in my life, both times very bri...

  I sat next to a woman who told me she was from Siberia Two Siberian clichés crashed into my brain, I made a pinchy face, she was defensive...

  Earlier this year I was getting ready to head out to work when there was a knock on my door. I opened it to see a young woman backing rapi...

  The beginning of November was spent in London in the company of a kitten doing all the adorable kitten things including sneakily creeping ...

I am married to a bee-fetishist*, he is also an insect-botherer and a garden-stealer . During the last eighteen months ( the Lockdown proje...

  is my birthday month:   On the evening of 31st August I stepped on a  Pacific Oyster while paddling in the sea, slicing an eye-watering a...

I've been staying near Oxford for the last two weeks, dog-sitting for an elderly greyhound, here he is sleeping on a stripey rug.  There...

    Last time I visited Cornwall, a demonic seagull stole my ice cream - I wrote about it here .   Without noting the date* I visited the sa...

 but not pressed yet This double bed-sized bed-spread, it's on the grass getting a bit damp before I do the final finishing  The month i...

  Mask - check   Cool shades - check Snazzy earrings - check  the hair's not behaving - Alice Band? The Ears say No Way!!!

  London  scrunching feet on  sandy-gravelly beach   sounds of lapping water   geese  first visit here in over a year and I'm easing mys...

  I'm loving all the gorgeous nude trees brandishing their limbs in the sunshine at this time of year. I'm particularly feeling kins...

  I'm loving the impending sense of spring even more than usual and once again I'm making my annual attempt to get to grips with wat...

Yesterday I passed a man telling a small boy that he was 'getting spider with yuman zed' -  my first thought was that this was must ...

is fraught with issues, I scope out shops with small queues. A bakery/coffee shop near my house sells sublime olivey-cheesy twists. Window...

on the neighbourhood noticeboard a  heading  - 'Anyone Lost Their Ham?'   - a photo of two plastic packs of ham on a pavement and a ...

  Early September, I noticed how shabby the bathroom had become and gave it a 'good' clean. Limescale build up was removed from pipe...

 it was still summer back then.    confident that I could make the distance to the next bay and knowing other people who were swimming at t...

For the last twenty years my mother has made a daily walk around the village, equipped with gloves and plastic bags so she can pick up litte...

Last month, shortly after Edward Colston the Slaver was pulled off his plinth and dumped in Bristol's city dock the Mayor sent a dawn ...