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It’s the way things pan out …….
Retuning from a late Agility Class on Friday, as the road dipped down towards Perranporth I heard clipping sound from the car, this was just after six pm; the car felt ok so I continued home. Par...
A nice reminder ….
Dad was from Derbyshire, a landlocked county in the heart of England, my Grandparents lived in Ashbourne when Dad was bourn in 1921, and soon after moved to Fenny Bentley a village a few miles no...
Yesterday ….
The best end of day this year, clear sky and the sun shining on the sunlounge, not that I was outside, I was under the glass sweltering! I have been painting, some variations of a Poppy watercolo...
‘HAPPY EASTER TO ALL’
Easter Sunday and more cool than cold on this hazy morning, in the northern hemisphere Easter and Spring are always a sine of regeneration in several meanings, for those with faith we welcome f...
On being slow ….!
Being down here just a few years, I don’t expect to meet people I know very often, I’ve been on Jewellery, Tiffany Glass and German Classes with out being noticed! The painting classes have been ...
A day’s work …
… and half sitting down! Bramble & Blackthorn. We have plenty of both on the Meadow part of our garden, both have an over abundance of thorns, the bramble has short curved thorns and the B...
Fodder for the writer.
Yesterday I was in Truro, the weather was sunny and dry, and dare I say – warm! Spring has arrived a little early perhaps making up for spring not arriving until May last year, yesterday’s weathe...
Flight MH370. [ + edit ]
When a aircraft goes missing most of us stop a moment, we think about the people missing, and the larger number of people hopping the plane as landed safely, or roughly will do if loved ones can ...
A stargazer’s lament …….
Across the country from Norfolk to South Wales the night skies are illuminated by a spectacular Aurora Borealis display, it is said to be the best show of Northern Lights in twenty years; here in...
Very much more can be less ….
Once more I moan about television, so many channels and so little to watch, I say all this but I did enjoy ‘Outnumbered’ tonight, a series about the Brockman family, Mum Sue and Dad Pete who are ...
Empty empathy …..
Not quite like yesterday today, it isn’t raining but there are those cool pinprick feeling on my skin, a soft Cornish day and looking up and down the valley it’s like a photograph from an early c...
Acrylic Painting’s, and things do improve ...
Yesterday was our last class before half-term, a few quiet days and I should have a second go at painting these subjects, I’m quite pleased with them but with time not limited to our class; I fee...
After Patrick ….
The wait is over, you my ask what wait, many who have watched ‘The Sky at Night’ over several decades were a little concerned about the programmes future with the passing of Sir Patrick Moore. Th...
It was - what I did …..
'It’s what I do most mornings, fire up the Mac and see who been on open diary, we’ve all been there for the last time now, I had a last look around before bed, fair well notes were flashing throu...
The last hurrah. [A farewell to Open Diary]
I think I’ll keep an eye on my patch until it has evaporates, it was quite a surprise to get in at this time of day, 10pm UK time, recently I could never get on; I suppose it was the time east co...
The other side of weather ….
There is something about ruff weather, a dynamic that isn’t there in a sunny vista; even if one would be nice just know ….
Wow it worked.
Our Westie went to her groomer, she’s always tired when she gets back home, our Beardie has a good sniff of her; perhaps his making sure it is her ……. “what a day I’ve had, she never knows wh...
OD - over whelmed ….!!
Open Dairy is down, it has been poor for a few days, I’m informed it is being over run by computer generated adverts, to keep this out 24-7 attention is needed. If this is the problem I would thi...
The last thing ….
The last thing before leaving the lounge is switching the candles off, then I can settle down in bed until morning!
Andrew Wyath was never on Monty Python!
Monty Python star Michael Palin, I worry about opening lines like this entry, the are not my words but they set me wondering if the writer thinks we have forgotten Michael Palin was ever a Python...
The last day of Advent.
Just a quick walk across the patio proves today is a better day, yesterday it never stopped raining, the intensity of the rain changed but it was wet all the time; I seemed to be wet at top and b...
Giveaway hints – not likely!
Our winter has hardly started and here we are at the winter solstice, from now each day the sun will begin to climb the sky and bring direct sunlight to our side of the valley; also it is the sta...
Good news for those who look up!
Since the death of Patrick Moore a year ago there has been a shadow of his long running programme ‘The Sky at Night’ he presented the programme from 1957 to his passing in December 2012, his last...
One tribute and a original!
We’ve just received the HFC programme for spring 2014, if your not sure it’s the ‘Hall for Cornwall’ in Truro, I’ve been there a few times, they have what my Par-in-law called a few turns, his w...
P-i-n-k + F-l-o-y-d + a-f-t-e-r-n-o-o-n
Our dogs have had their hour of agility, it was much warmer than last week, a biter sixty minutes holding the dogs in turn; this week was good. I didn’t take a camera, I can’t hold my Nikon DSLR ...
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Not the day to day events, but the things that interest me then, now and when ever ……
