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What The Heron Had For Breakfast

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The playing fields just over the road from are a good bench mark for me to tell how wet a winter we’ve been having. So far I’d have to say, drier than last winter. That said there is a big wet patch over there, it’s like a bit of marsh land. There is often a Heron out there stalking the amphibian fauna that lives there (it’s not wet enough to support fish, it dries out in the summer). This morning the Heron had been particularly lucky and had bagged himself a particularly large frog. He flew...

SS-GB

The BBC’s adaptation of Len Deighton’s SS-GB starts this coming Sunday. I’m looking forward to watching it, having read the book years ago. It’s an alternate history story with Britain being occupied by the Nazi’s having lost the Battle of Britain. Trailer below:

New Glasses

I went to the opticians yesterday for a routine appointment, apparently my prescription hasn’t changed but I’ve had a referral to my GP, as there’s a burst blood vessel in the back of one of my eyes. The referral is a precaution to get blood pressure etc checked. Doing that Wednesday.

I’m also getting a new pair of glasses, as my old ones are quite scratched. I pick those up next week. I’m pretty boring when it comes to choosing glasses, Dame Edna I am not. So my new ones look pretty much lik...

Quick Links 13th February 2017

Each week I’ll try and post quick links to things that I’ve seen, read, inspired me or just sparked my interest in the previous week, with a little background and my thoughts and other things that I’ve been up to in the previous week. Mostly gardening, cooking and environmental stuff but not always.

Life In General.

I’ve spent a lot of time in the last week doing stuff on my late Dad’s estate, paperwork etc. Very tiring and frustrating, and stirring a lot of memories.

Work.

No news on any o...

Build A Stegosaurus

Snow On The Plot

The First Loaf

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Turned out really well, tastes great and made some excellent sandwiches! Fruit loaf next

A Muse

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One of my Christmas presents was the hare print above. I managed to find a frame for it, and at the weekend managed to get the print into the frame.

I still need to get a length of cord on the back of the frame so that I can hang it, but for the time being it’s been in front of me in our lounge. It’s become a bit of a muse for me, I find myself staring at it quite captivated. I almost don’t want to hang it on the wall, I like it where it is.

The artist is Lisa Cunningham, and she has lots of...

Bread Maker Update

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I wrote about our old bread maker a while ago, and it seems that it had made its last loaves. I tried to make a couple more in it, and they came out rather brick like. It seems the belt or motor was so worn that it couldn’t knead the dough properly after the first rise, meaning that the bread wasn’t rising properly at all, and we were getting rather solid half-sized loaves.

So we’ve bitten the proverbial, and bought a new one. It’s the same make as our last one, but a slightly better model....

Old School

When I was sorting through some of my Dad’s old paperwork, I found a folder in his filing cabinet with my name on it. Inside were a lot of my old school and college reports. I hadn’t realised that he’d kept them (although possibly given his filing system he may not have realised that they were still there).

I pulled a few out at random and it reminds me pretty much of how I felt about school and college. Latterly I didn’t really enjoy school very much, although college was much more interesti...