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It’s been another glorious week here in our little seaside town, with only a little rain falling overnight yesterday. But on Tuesday we decided to have a day out, not least to celebrate our wedding anniversary, and Snape Maltings were our destination. It’s a place we’ve visited numerous times, the home of the Aldeburgh FestivalContinue reading “Tuesday’s trip.”

… it’s over let it go! Bernard Braden and Millicent Martin were responsible for the TV programme I think, but you’re probably too young to remember it 😉 It’s been quite a week here too. We saw an old friend for a couple of days and enjoyed a lovely lunch at Ely cathedral in spiteContinue reading “That was the week that was…”

From time to time I come across a phrase or words of wisdom which I want to save and ponder over. I tend to write the words on a piece of paper and then put it in a safe place. You know what’s coming next…where did I put that ? But today I came acrossContinue reading “Who said that?”

…the weather is cold, or whether the weather is hot. Whether the weather is dry, or whether the weather is not, I’ll weather the weather whatever the weather, whether I like it or not. It’s been a mixed week here – summer came and went and has come back again. Thank goodness for the greenhouseContinue reading “Whether…”

Summer has arrived… I think. We’ve had two days of sunshine, no rain and it’s jolly hot. I’m not complaining – it means there will be fewer slugs marching through the grass and flower beds, eating almost everything on their journey. I have “dealt” with over three hundred in the last couple of weeks andContinue reading “Finally!”

It seems like a lifetime ago that we were living in South Carolina, near the state capital Columbia, just off route 378, from Georgia to the coast. Nearby was the Old Cherokee Trail, a much more emotive route out of the south for that tribe. However, at the top of the road there was, forContinue reading “Shop locally…”

At the weekend I decided to make a bulk batch of Slo-bol – slow-cooked bolognaise sauce. I try to keep a supply of properly labelled boxes in the freezer but we’d run out. Carrots and celery were on the shopping list for the soffrito and it occurred to me that since we’re now in saladContinue reading “All about the space…”

We’re lucky in this part of sleepy Suffolk as we have a number of lovely places to visit on sunny summer days – and on not-such-nice days too. One of them is the National Trust site just outside Woodbridge where an Anglo-Saxon burial ship was found in 1939. The outbreak of war delayed progress withContinue reading “Sutton Hoo.”

In the past I’ve never been able to describe anything as a trip, because that means I might have “had a fall”. We always spoke of school “visits” or “excursions”, never trips! But this week we had a visit to a garden centre run by a lovely family I’ve known for a very long time.Continue reading “Tuesday’s trip.”

It seems that a large number of people in Britain have been affected by the latest outbreak of E.coli which is caused by bacteria normally living in human and animal intestines. It causes very unpleasant symptoms and anyone suffering with it should stay at home until the symptoms have gone, as well as staying awayContinue reading “E.coli in the news again.”