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Browsing Posts published in October, 2009

The Art of Wool Making

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We went for a three and a half mile walk this afternoon and I took a few photographs which turned out to be appropriate to my previous post and my remark about knitting. First choose your wool. Then decide what colour you’d like it to be. Next you’ll need a large vat in which to [...]

Oh dear – winter again.

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The clocks went back last night so now it will be getting dark around 5:30 this evening although of course it's now lighter in the morning. It is now eight weeks to the shortest day. We succumbed a week or so ago, when it became really quite chilly, and turned on the heating for the [...]

We go home today but have decided to call in to Scotney Castle, in Kent, on the way but before any of you castle fanatics get overexcited, especially those of you who’s names begin with ‘M’, let me explain that there is very little castle but a lot of garden. By the time we’d had [...]