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Beautifully articulate, articulated beautifully.

There are never any adverts on this site, unless they are interviews with artists, or something I think you’ll enjoy.  I don’t share content generated by other people, this site is original me.  However, breaking my own rules, this link … Continue reading

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Thick knickers

Welcome to a new category- astronomy. At the outset, outside (of which more, shortly) let me be crystal clear.  This is not the one where if it is your birthday today you are a Libra and the forecast is for … Continue reading

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Keeping up good cheer.

Again I find myself writing about the effects dementia has on the wider family.  I don’t want to encumber you with thoughts that might be depressing, if everyone in your family is bursting with good health.  If they are, enjoy … Continue reading

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Reasons to be cheerful, part several.

Here are the new perennial sunflowers, blooming in the place of the triffid, which is now just an envelope of seeds and compost. As you can see, unlike normal sunflowers, which are one stalk and a flower, these bear multiple … Continue reading

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Enter the dragon.

My Step-Mum-In-Law has been in a nursing home for a few weeks. I have tried to keep contact with her, not least because one of the reasons demented people go downhill rapidly upon entering residential care, is their disconnect with … Continue reading

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Difficult telephone chats.

Once again I am having some difficult telephone chats with a demented family member.  It’s my step-mum-in-law.  Cared for at home, a couple of hours car journey from her surviving child, her daughter, she went down hill so rapidly under … Continue reading

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Symbiosis.

In a bit of long overdue housekeeping, I have tidied up my links. New readers clicking on the word that says links in the top bar will find themselves on a page with other websites’ addresses.  Clicking on these links … Continue reading

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Midweek Miniatura–again!

Oh it is such a joy to be writing about everybody’s favourite miniature show again.  I love writing about the amazing artists, there are some, I’m one, who only do Miniatura.  In my case it’s because one original artist producing … Continue reading

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Midweek Miniatura

I am so happy to be writing that title again, there were times when I thought it might not happen, but Miniatura is back, back, back! I, however, am not. As you know if you’re a regular reader, I have … Continue reading

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Miniatura 2021 at the NAEC

There’s a blog title I never thought I’d be able to write.  Miniatura 2021! The pandemic that stole our show has given us a new exhibitor we would not be meeting if the world had continued in the normal way. … Continue reading

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