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The other day, as Husband announced (perhaps unwis

The other day, as Husband announced (perhaps unwisely) that he was off to do some strimming I announced, Baldrick style, that I had a good idea. ‘Another one, Your Highness?’ Husband did not say wearily. ‘Those daisies by the drive, it would be a pity to lose them; couldn’t you strim round them?’ With saintlike patience, he did. Bless him.
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View from our bedroom window. Future garden plans

View from our bedroom window. Future garden plans involve trying to put a rose garden the other side of the yew hedge. (Several older and wiser and better people #sakishortstories have said that it cannot be done: so I have to try, although there is a Plan B if it goes wrong.) This accounts for the sticks you can just see in the ground as we mark things out. We are also plotting to plant some trees to obscure the enchanting view of the phone pole in the background (and to stop me dreaming up ever more imaginative things I could do to BT operatives with it, no I’m not going to let this go). We are thinking about walnut trees, I fancy chestnuts but, of course, disease is ravaging their ranks as well as ash trees😭. Most dreaded, of course is the task of getting ground elder out of the flower bed. I suspect the horticultural pros among you will recognise the Darwinian struggle between ground elder, lilies and geraniums taking place in the flowerbed. Who else else has turned Capability Brown during the lockdown? How does your garden grow?
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The bear is back in town! While we shall be foreve

The bear is back in town! While we shall be forever grateful to everyone @caninecountryclubuk for loving care of our girl and for the prompt action that saved her life when she developed pyometra, we are thrilled to finally have the Newfie back in residence. 48 hours back home and every item in my wardrobe is delicately festooned with drool again (this delightful substance has ended up on the kitchen ceiling before now: you don’t want to know) and I almost don’t mind.
Speaking of being back in town, thank you for nothing BT for the last two weeks. I am sure someone in your offices believes that sending customers running round fields to seek internet access during lockdown allows for occupation and healthy exercise: we see it differently and have nothing but the warmest feelings towards you (in the medieval sense involving raging fires and all the creative things that can be done with it in pursuit of the Good of the Soul). Hopes of my emerging from lockdown a better person are fast fading but we will emerge with a large fluff ball, so that’s alright.
Hope you are hanging on in there!
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Look up if you need a bit of zen: such as, to take

Look up if you need a bit of zen: such as, to take an example entirely at random, when your broadband (shonky for years because BT won’t upgrade the line) finally c...s out in the middle of the lockdown.
I am currently envisaging BT as a fat complacent python coiled around my family and my business and quite a lot of today has been spent in remote locations trying to get reception: ergo staring at trees and wishing evil things on people with ‘executive’ in their title. I don’t think I’ve got this zen Buddhist thing sorted ...
Hope you’re hanging on in there xx
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‘“Of course it would be raining,” said Edmun

‘“Of course it would be raining,” said Edmund. They had just finished their breakfast ...
“Do stop grumbling, Ed,” said Susan. “Ten to one it’ll clear up in an hour or so and in the meantime we’re pretty well off. There’s a wireless and lots of books.” “Not for me,” said Peter; “I’m going to explore the in house.”
Everybody agreed to this and that was how the adventures began.’ As the children get older, watching them explore and colonise the house and garden is one of life’s great pleasures (punctuated with a certain amount of, ‘no! not there or you’ll ... There! You see?’). #thelionthewitchandthewardrobe
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