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Browsing Posts published in September, 2012

Another sunny day today. I don't mean by that that it was sunny yesterday (it wasn't), oh no, I mean another sunny day this year. Whenever we have a sunny day we try to make use of it so it meant another walk around Tollesbury. Although this is the same walk I did last time [...]

I've done it again! The Tollesbury Walk, that is. Amanda and I did it nearly two weeks ago you may remember and I did it on my own again today. Amanda was too busy building bonfires in the garden so off I went. This time I took my Android device with the GPS running to [...]

Paws for thought

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It's a number of years now since we had our own cats so their scent around the garden has worn off and our neighbours cats now treat it as part of their territory. They do push their luck a little though but it's not unusual to find them in a greenhouse. This one was on [...]

We haven't been out and about this year anywhere near as much as we normally do thanks to the dreadful weather we've had this summer and I've noticed that on our recent trips I'm not as fit as I'd expect to be at this time of the year. So there's nothing for it but take [...]

This really was Nasty.

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A strange thing happened this week – we had a weather forecast for 5 consecutive sunny days! Not sunny all day every day but to have 5 partly sunny days in a row this summer is a miracle. However, Wednesday was one of the days where the sun was forecast to shine all day, in [...]

The Republic of Texas

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Just in case you wondered, the subject heading is relevant and we'll get to it later. Days where the sun has been out for most of the day have been few and far between this year and, we are told, this summer has been the wettest for 100 years so we couldn't afford to miss [...]