I have never really gone for paganism. Not that I am particularly squeamish but have never really found the time to indulge in unspeakable acts with goats or whittle arrows from mistletoe. I have never danced naked at Stonehenge (in
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I have been thinking… I have just received another one of those really annoying sales calls where one is talked at by a cheery voiced tape recording. On this occasion he was trying to sell me roof insulation but I
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Gosh. Two blog posts within a single week. I have not achieved that since about 2009. You will be relieved to know that this one is brief, pert and to the point rather than some ramble about holes in the
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Every year I fall into a sort of relaxed stupor around February. My brain tells me that it’s ages until Springtime and there is nothing whatsoever wrong with a bit more hibernation and procrastination. Of course that planting plan can
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It is a well exercised fact that, if you want to get a lot of blog comments, then you should either write about Cats or the Royal Horticultural Society. In the last couple of weeks there has been a fair
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My apologies, I have been neglectful of this blog which is a bit rude: especially after all that “Oh wow. I have been doing this for six years” stuff in which I indulged last time we met. I have been
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This blog has been alive for six years this month: both here and, previously, here. Hooray! Six years worth of drivel has trickled from my fingers to clutter up the outer reaches of the hypernet. Nobody noticed for quite a
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My life for the past week has mostly been spent in waiting rooms. Train waiting rooms used (many years ago before most of you were born) to be very comfortable with roaring coal fires and little shops that sold tea
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I know this is a very dull thing to say but I am jolly well going to say it anyway… My goodness, how time flies past. Another year, another Garden Media Guild shindig under our belts. This year, as you
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I am returned from London after a long and dull day. Forgive me while I do a bit of travel grumbling. It won’t take a minute, I promise. Right. I am beetling my way towards the station to catch the
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