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“The memories we make with our family is everything.”
Candace Cameron Bure.
Carol’s dish tonight, always has been a grand feast.
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“In our work and in our living, we must recognise that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.” Audre Lorde.
Pick the bones out of that!
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“The moon blows kisses to the evening primrose.”
Richard L. Ratliff.
The Prima Rosa coming out. Does that make a Hellebore the Ultima Rosa?
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“Every great story seems to begin with a snake.”
Nicolas Cage.
Our snakes seem to be late this year.
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“Silence is better than unmeaning words.” Pythagoras.
Did it know the answers? Did it heck as like…
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“I cannot even open an umbrella properly. How could I ever have been a civil engineering student?
Paresh Rawal.
The hibiscus flower just about to open and chase the sun for the day.
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“Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.”
P. T. Barnum.
A Barnum inspired performance on the ice, tonight…
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“Under the spreading chestnut tree I
sold you and you sold me.”
George Orwell.
A bit of a paraphrase…
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“Without rain, nothing grows.”
Unknown.
A walk by the Trent which is so low in parts you can see the stepping stones…
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“I love bleak things.”
Denise Mina.
A bleak day at Dodside Farm.
#bleakday
#bleakweather
#justbleak
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“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton.
Castell Cricieth way up in today’s clouds. Lucky there was no rain up there.
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“The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.
Masanobu Fukuoka
Harvesting the wind at Whitelee this morning. A bit breezy not to mention the cold.
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“I love visiting Landmark Trust properties, which tend to be historical follies in extraordinary places.”
Lucy Worsley.
The entrance to the Great Churchyard, Bury St. Edmunds, at dusk.
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“There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.”
Milton Friedman.
But there is such a thing as a free coffee, courtesy of this young woman. Result!
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“The squall sweeps gray-winged across the obliterated hills and the startled sea seems to run before it.”
Leonora Speyer.
Took a walk to Porthdinllaen today between rain sessions. What a lovely place… Rain excepted.
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“The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.”
Alberto Giacometti.
Getting a little late now… I’ll run that quote thro’ my brain cell again tomorrow.
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“Vertical planting is the way forward.”
RM Nicolle.
An old wall in Keyworth sprouting out all over.
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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton.
The border was caught just right from a random reflection this evening.
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“A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.”
Kin Hubbard.
Another hectic day but did manage to prep Thursday’s breakfast.
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“Love these woodland lights shots.”
Andrew Nickeas.
This time in the Memorial Wood at Rushcliffe Country Park. Couldn’t resist it.
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“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
Orlando Aloysius Battista.
Note to self; remember to send the image.
Error corrected.
Buddy in sweet repose.
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“Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.”
Steven Wright.
Happened to be close to my home village today and stopped by a pub in a village nearby. Cripes, it’s been 50 years since I was last here.
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“A little of what you fancy does you good.”
Marie Lloyd (1915).
Summer holidays are here and we’ve been Wabbit watching. Comes to supper time and she’s chosen tagliatelle with cheese sauce, courgette fritters topped off with a nice ripe plum. Can’t fault ya Wabbit.
PS, we had the same, too.
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“You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak and you survey a thousand tales.
Jim Crace.
Walking through some history.
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“The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.”
John Muir.
Coming to the last of the season, what to do, what to do.
I think we’ve preserved the excess in every possible way, let’s hope they goes the distance.
Merry Christmas y’all.
#plumroast
#plumvodka
#plumontoast
#plumfrozen
#plumndesiccated
#plumsoup
#plumduff
#plumcrumble
#plumtart
#plumbread
#plumbaconandsausagewithegg
#adinfinitum
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“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.”
Attributed to Mark Twain (1907).
Almost over for another year and we have served;
9 guests.
82 meals.
1,267.5 Brussels Sprouts.
The Horn of Plenty is having a well earned rest.
#seasonsgreetings
#thehornofplenty
#1267brusselssprout
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“My Old Man Said Follow The Van…”
Collins & Leigh (1919).
After a long slog we finally said goodby to the last van load…
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“Arnold: Origins in the Old English words ‘Earnan halh’, meaning ‘Place of eagles’ or ‘The valley of eagles’.”
Been a few months since my last visit.
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There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree.”
Joyce Rachelle.
More autumn colour at the country park.
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“They’re commeth in the nicke.” Arthur Golding, 1565.
Was just about to start when the rains came…
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“I love the blue of this ceanothus, just coming into flower.
Jenny Fisher.
Just playing catchup with Jenny…
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“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”
Susan Sontag.
The Pin Mill at Bodnant Gardens; imagine, it was originally built in Gloucestershire then, when derelict, moved to Wales bit by bit.
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"How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?"
By Dean Martin and duetted with Helen O'Connell.
Scrambled please.
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“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
W. C. Fields.
So as we go towards Winter; dark wine.
#redwine
#primitivo
#hic
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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus.
Morning sunlight catching the leaves.
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“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
Orlando Aloysius Battista.
A simple trip to Trowell Services was almost a mistake until I was told it should be Toddington…
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“That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.”
Sherlock Holmes, The Hounds of the Baskervilles.
The dew point has been reached and this poor wretch is now lost in the mists of the Country Park and struggling to find her way back with her, already lost, pup.
#rushcliffecountrypark
#thehoundsofthebaskervilles
#dewpoint
#mwhahahaaa
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“When you put all your eggs in one basket, you've got a problem.
Ander Crenshaw
Fortunately not an issue with courgettes and radish.
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“So far, so good. So much is done to good purpose.”
James Kelly (1721).
Home DIY; 20 minutes in and it’s still standing. 40 minutes later finished and STILL standing.
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“All at Sixes and Sevens.”
Merchant Taylor’s and Skinners.
Dinner at Merchant Taylor’s who are ‘sixth’ this year.
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“Scene of the crime…”
Agatha Christie (1923).
Going to put the bunnies away, this evening, I was faced with this! Fortunately it’s moulting time of the year…
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“Is Siberian Hamster.”
Manuel.
Presenting the Siberian Squirrel (or Squill as they would have it).