The weather yesterday morning was absolutely glorious, chilly but really bright, so we took advantage of it and went on a rather longer walk than usual to some woodland we don't visit all that often. As it was uphill most of the way we felt very well exercised when we got home. It's not so nice today but we went for another walk in our usual park ( Read more... )

When we went on the local street art monster trail a few weeks ago I wondered why the local businesses that financed it hadn't done it for Halloween. Now I think someone might have checked the long-range weather forecast and realised that this particular sort of street art wouldn't work on a day beginning with torrential rain and high winds! It is ( Read more... )

It's one of those days where the weather can't quite decide what it is doing. There has been heavy rain, sunshine, strong winds and occasionally all three at once. I've been out twice and narrowly managed to avoid the rain both times but it has been touch and go both times. In between the showers and gusts of wind it is a lovely day ( Read more... )

If anything Dame Judi Dench's edition of Who Do You Think You Are was even more extraordinary than Josh Widdicombe's. I think my mouth fell open with surprise at one point, though her father's side of the story was equally amazing ( Read more... )

I seem to have slipped behind a bit. We haven't done much this week apart from go on some longish walks and make some progress with our garden refurbishment. We have had good news that our friend's cancer is not as bad as everyone first feared and he may not even need chemo, unless he chooses to have it as a precaution. That was very cheering ( Read more... )

Most of this week has been very good but it has been overshadowed rather by the news that a close friend has bowel cancer. I hope they have caught it in time but it is very worrying nonetheless ( Read more... )

We went to Brighton for the day on Thursday and it was just the sort of day that my mother would have prescribed to get rid of a cold and "blow the cobwebs away". The wind was blowing really strongly which meant that there were actual waves, which is the way I really prefer the sea.

A picture of some foamy sea under the cut.

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It's been one of those weeks where we have done useful but boring things so I won't share the useful tedium. Instead have this lovely thread from Twitter (and it isn't often I can write that).

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- Martin Dorey (@campervanliving) September 23, 2021

Back to the meme.

19. What was the last piece of furniture you purchased? ( Read more... )

The weather was really lovely earlier on but it clouded over just as I went out for a walk. This is a nuisance as I need more of our tomatoes to ripen before we have to pick them when the weather turns colder. It's not been a good year for tomatoes but we still seem to have a lot and I really don't want to make green tomato chutney again as we ( Read more... )

It was a good day for the outer suburbs of South London yesterday as Palace beat Spurs 3-0 and Emma Raducanu won the women's US Open Tennis Championship. One on those things has certainly never happened before and I'm pretty sure the other one hasn't either. I banned myself from the room as J was watching the tennis as I am a total jinx so I ( Read more... )