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trottyworld: October 2014
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Sunday, 26 October 2014. Favourite people and places. If ever I were asked for a list of my favourite places then Newton Bay is one that would be very close to the top. It is part of Northumberland’s North Sea coastline and is a place given natural shelter by a rocky reef, where the sand is soft, the sea is invariably cold and the light has a special quality about it. Noggin the Nog’. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow this link to the new home for this blog. Favourite people and plac...
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trottyworld: December 2013
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Monday, 23 December 2013. We hear on the news that Scotland will soon be battered by storms again. But what action to take, this is the problem. When someone shouts “Warning! 8221; or “Look Out! 8221; then we all know to duck down behind the sofa or jump out of the road, whichever is more appropriate. But here we are close to the shortest day, most of Winter still to come, right in the firing line for the latest depression, and it is difficult to know what exactly we should be doing. What about preparing...
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trottyworld: March 2015
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Saturday, 28 March 2015. Just spent a lovely afternoon walking with the alpacas. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow this link to the new home for this blog. Simple template. Template images by Jason Morrow.
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trottyworld: Home life
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Friday, 7 November 2014. The village hall car park is back to normal, still with its coating of gravel and the sun warms me as I continue with my decking construction project in the garden. The ground is sodden, as you might expect, but other than this two days and nights of heavy rain has disappeared like magic. Later in the day we sit in front of our log fire and contemplate how fortunate we are in our choice of house, that it can be so unaffected by weather extremes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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trottyworld: January 2014
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Monday, 27 January 2014. As part of our kitchen refurb we order a fridge-freezer and dishwasher via the Currys website and are informed by email that it will be delivered direct from the manufacturers, last Wednesday. We sort of ignore this because we know from experience that Thursday is Currys' delivery day here but then after Thursday has come and almost gone we decide to give them a call. Works for the day. Links to this post. Wednesday, 15 January 2014. Suddenly it has gone quiet. The storms we ...
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trottyworld: August 2014
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Wednesday, 6 August 2014. Ducky gets a home. Scarcely have I left home for my sailing exploits amongst the Western Isles when Kate gets stuck into building a home for. Our much loved campervan, at the bottom of our garden. She did have a little help it has to be said, with larger pieces of timber and digging the massive postholes, fitting the wooden cladding and climbing up to fix the roof but she tells me that nothing would have happened, nothing at all built, without her being there to make the tea.
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trottyworld: October 2013
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Wednesday, 16 October 2013. Colour is an essential part of that memory. But having said all this, we have arrived now at that time of year when all our deciduous green trees are changing colour, first to yellow or red then to brown or black. Now for this month’s mystery picture. Not a plant nor an animal, this is a lichen, both an algae and a fungus, a symbiotic relationship between two living things which enables it to grow on rock, taking its nourishment from anything that falls on it. This one,. Leavi...
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trottyworld: April 2014
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Monday, 21 April 2014. Ducky’s meanderings - 3. Perhaps it might have been more sensible had we, prior to setting out on this broadly clockwise trip around Scotland. Dunnet Head being the most northerly point of the Scottish mainland, the only way for us now is south as we are saving the Orkneys for another day. So it is that we rumbled into Helmsdale, one of so many tiny east coast fishing ports to have sprung into being when the seas were full to bursting with herring. Links to this post. But we have h...
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trottyworld: March 2014
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trottyworld: September 2014
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Wednesday, 10 September 2014. Neither meat nor fish. More than thirty years have passed since Kate and I decided we would eat nothing more that came from the bodies of slaughtered animals. We became, at a stroke therefore, vegetarians. 8221; I would be quite wealthy by now. Or else “What about chicken? Usually sits on its own bearing a tiny ‘. Contain any animal products, and indeed nobody could possibly argue that peas, carrots or potatoes are anything less than vegetables, yet a lack of imagination or ...