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Heavy Snow and Cat Crisis

We were expecting snow overnight, but were taken by surprise just how much we actually had. It's brought our little Pennine town to a standstill. It was only when I was quietly priding myself on being forward-thinking enough to stock up on groc
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Posted in Personal on January 21, 2015

Breakfast with a musical soundtrack

I listened to my MP3 player while I was preparing breakfast this morning. The tracks helped me get into a mellow, Saturday mood in the knowledge that I don't have to go out today and the snow can keep falling. I was transported swiftly back to the 8
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Posted in Random on January 17, 2015

Does your fruit bowl have any actual fruit in it?

I am ashamed to say that there is only one item of fruit in my fruit bowl - a dried up lemon. I bought it weeks ago with some culinary intention in mind but somehow never got round to using it. Apart from that my fruit bowl currently contains the fo
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Posted in Random on January 14, 2015

The strange things we dream about

Last night I had a dream where my gran died. In reality, she died 10 years ago. She was in her nineties, very frail and was in a care home, suffering from dementia. Although deaths are always sad, it was kind of inevitable in this case.
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Posted in Personal on January 14, 2015

My Fur Babies

I would like to share with you one of my favourite photographs of my two adorable 'fur babies', Lilo and Stitch. The picture was taken 9 years ago when they were kittens. Sadly we don't have Stitch anymore. He died very suddenly last Febr
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Posted in Animals on January 13, 2015

The worst cake I ever made

Although I say it myself, I am usually good at making cakes. I must have been a bit distracted yesterday, that's all. Perhaps it was the sleep deprivation that has come as a result of the annoying gales keeping me awake. I was quite excited to
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Posted in Food on January 12, 2015

A Playful Squirrel

I snapped this squirrel in a graveyard in Norfolk earlier this year. when we were on a weekend break. We didn't realise at first that there were dozens of them running around up and down the headstones. It made a wonderful adventure playground
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Posted in Pictures on January 11, 2015

Can writing be bad for your health?

I was chatting to a writer friend the other day who told me that she was determined to defeat negative thinking this year. She felt that the key was to not deny negative thoughts all together but to modify them and not over-dramatize them. She
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Posted in Writing on January 11, 2015

4 Legged Work Colleagues

I am lucky enough to be able to work from home. People are always asking me, "don't you get lonely?" but I can honestly say that I don't. A lot of my friends and former work colleagues can be contacted easily online and being able to choose my
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Posted in Animals on January 10, 2015

Ooops - My article has disappeared

I just typed a post and then inputted the captcha as usual, but a message flashed up that said, "Oops, the captcha was not recognised. Please try again." Unfortunately there was nothing to click to try again. When I looked in drafts there was no sig
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Posted in Persona Paper on January 10, 2015