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My little white rose has come out.......
- 01 Jul 2013 - 4 commentsMy kitchen has come alive with a beautiful white rose on the window sill...... Isn't it gorgeous? Unfortunately it isn't aromatic, so no lovely rose scent there, but the beauty is so lovely. They are tiny flowers too. Just wanted to show it
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Happy July 4th to all of my US friends
- 04 Jul 2013 - 1 commentMay I wish you all a wonderful 4th July - I hope you have a great day celebrating and that you'll be enjoying the firewords and parties. I know that many people who came to your shores and saw this sight, meant that they could now breathe deeply and
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Photo phun - altitude
- 05 Jul 2013 - 3 commentsAnother wonderful choice by Summer - she is so good at thinking of good words that gets our thinking caps on to make sure we can do her themes justice. Here are a few of my contributions.............. My son & his fiancee went to New York and took
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Had a visitor here today
- 05 Jul 2013 - 4 commentsMandi came up today and we had a great day sitting outside in the sunshine. We Brits have got used to having lousy summers and have moaned about them, but hey - the last few weeks have been great for us. Okay we've had the odd rain shower and the odd
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Got a problem...........
- 06 Jul 2013 - 8 commentsYou remember me telling you that a family of seagulls have designated my four chimney pots as an ideal place for them to have a nest. They've been doing this for years and this year they had three chicks. Normally they fledge without any problems but this
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Thought you'd want to know.......
- 07 Jul 2013 - 5 commentsWell when I went to go to bed last night, when I went into the kitchen a little face looked down at me from the porch roof. I did say goodnight to him, but hoped he wouldn't be there in the morning. I went to bed and crossed my fingers that the little
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I've bought something I didn't realise I needed!!!
- 08 Jul 2013 - 6 commentsSome of you will have seen from Mickey that we have bought something that we didn't realise we needed!!! I was trawling on E-Bay and saw a lovely little tablet - not the medicinal kind - which would help me when I go on holiday. I thought they were in
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The little seagull has come a-visiting again.....
- 09 Jul 2013 - 4 commentsWell I thought I'd seen the last of the little seagull or Jonathon as I've started to call him, but no........... he casually strolled onto my driveway this afternoon as if he's on his own patch!!!! He hopped onto my coal bunker and fell into it - no
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Pippin loving the sun and my first lily has bloomed...
- 09 Jul 2013 - 3 commentsPippin loves the sun, but he does get a tad hot and he tends to lie in the shade except when I go out to do some weeding, then he's really got to be close to me....... He laid down on the carpet I use for sitting on while I weed, but the sun was getting
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My orange lily has started to bloom.....
- 10 Jul 2013 - 2 commentsHow's this for colour eh?........... I looked out of the bathroom window and saw this magnificant flower on my driveway... I don't normally like bright orange flowers (apart from the mombretia) but this is just beautiful. Even the pods before they
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The Sound of Music????
- 11 Jul 2013 - 2 commentsBob Hill and his new wife Betty were vacationing in Europe.....as it happens, near Transylvania . They were driving in a rental car along a rather deserted highway. It was late and raining very hard. Bob could barely see the road in front of the car.
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Mandi came up for the day .... and orange lilies
- 11 Jul 2013 - 4 commentsI was blessed with a visit from Mandi today. She arrived early as usual and the sky was a gorgeous bright blue. The sun was shining and we opened the back door as well as the windows in the lounge to get a draught through. We went up to Asda for my
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Photo phun - bushy
- 12 Jul 2013 - 3 commentsSummer has had me trawling my pictures yet again as well as making my poor little grey cells work overtime to do this week's theme. So here we go with my little contribution to - bushy............... This bison/buffalo (sorry don't know the
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I noticed a new wild rose on my hedge today.....
- 14 Jul 2013 - 3 commentsToday was another glorious day - not as humid and hot as the last couple of days and so I thought I'd try and catch some rays. Oh dear ......... I fell asleep as I tend to do and woke up feeling as if I'd had a swim!!!! I was so so hot and was leaking
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Have found out what it's called..........
- 15 Jul 2013 - 4 commentsThis flower which is rampant in my garden is a wildflower and I've always called it Loose Strife which it isn't, so I've looked it up in the British Wild Flowers guide and I've found it!!!!!!!!!!! It's called Purple Toadflax!! What a 'orrible name
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Guess who's come back????
- 15 Jul 2013 - 3 commentsI heard a thump on the porch roof this evening and went outside to investigate and guess what??????????????? Yep - Jonathon has returned!! He's been wandering around the houses here, well the 3 of us anyway and apparently the parents have been down to
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Took some night shots of the lilies & geraniums
- 15 Jul 2013 - 4 commentsWhile I was outside watering the flower pots, it was getting quite dark and I thought that I'd take some night shots of the flowers. There is now four orange lilies and the small geraniums are getting more and more blooms. So here are the
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Photo phun - horizontal
- 19 Jul 2013 - 5 commentsSummer has given us another wonderful title to find pictures of - horizontal. Last year we had loads of rain and at times there were strong winds so the rain was almost horizontal at times. Couldn't get a good picture though - so you'll have to put up
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Some more lilies have appeared
- 19 Jul 2013 - 8 commentsWhile I was out today I noticed that more of my yellow lilies have bloomed. You are probably sick to death with the photos of my flowers here, but hey - I don't care!!!! LOL and of course my petunias are still going strong................ Then
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My green lawn is no more
- 20 Jul 2013 - 9 commentsThe only problem with this heatwave and boy I don't want to moan, is the fact that my green lawn is no more! Now I love this weather and having the windows open all day and in some cases, all night, but I don't have a garden hose anymore so keeping the
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Have been out and cut the straw!!!
- 22 Jul 2013 - 4 commentsToday the temperatures have evened out a bit, so we're not as hot as of late. Still no rain for over 4 weeks now, so the grass is not grass anymore but is now straw!!!! Anyway according to the weather forecasters, we can expect some rain either later on
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Pippin has found a new place to lie in..........
- 23 Jul 2013 - 4 commentsWell today has been a nicer day in the sense of it being cooler than of late. It wasn't sunny at all, cloudy all day with a nice coolish wind. I obviously didn't do any sunbathing, nor surprisingly any hard work!!! No I tend to wait for those really hot,
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Photo phun - hollow
- 25 Jul 2013 - 3 commentsOh dear - my brain has been in overdrive today - trying to think of things I've got around me which are hollow. No doubt I'll think of loads later on when it'll be too late!!!! Anyway here are a few of my ideas......... Excuse the writings on here -
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Not done a lot today........
- 26 Jul 2013 - 5 commentsWell today has been a sort of lazy day. Okay I've been doing some sewing - only about 4 hours of it, but the sun decided to come out on odd occasions and so I popped out to take some pictures of the plants and of course Pippin had to accompany me.....
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Been one of those days.............
- 28 Jul 2013 - 7 commentsI'm not sure how to describe today's weather - sunny with scattered showers or rainy with sunny intervals!!!! Whatever it is, it's been a so-so day. Nice for the garden, not if you want to work in it (which I didn't really) as you would have to be popping
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Been to the dentist........
- 29 Jul 2013 - 3 commentsWell another 6 months have come round and it was off to the dentist for the 6 monthly check up. As I've told you before, my dentist, Ivan, is a gorgeous Bulgarian with lovely brown eyes and I've often wanted to be there for a longer time, but today was
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Summer sent me a card...........
- 29 Jul 2013Like Mickey I was honoured by a lovely card from Summer. The quality of the paper is brilliant Summer and I do like the available details........ So I think I'm going to have to have a serious think about these cards. They are really gorgeous. Many
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Went for a blood pressure test today............
- 30 Jul 2013 - 5 commentsMy second outing of the week took place this afternoon when I had to go to the doctor's for a blood pressure test. Well as you know I have a long driveway and to be honest, it really does hurt my back to go down it...... This is the last corner of the
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Some blackberries are on their way........
- 30 Jul 2013 - 4 commentsWhilst walking down my drive, I noticed that there are a lot of brambles with these lovely flowers on them............ These are the fore-runners of blackberries.............. And with a bit of luck this should mean a glut of berries - perfect for
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