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Mutterings and Meanderings: February 2009

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Themeless - if not seamless - observations, episodes and soapbox moments, interspersed with the occasional Paddington Bear hard stare. Friday, February 06, 2009. The way we were. In a TV schedule awash with things I don't want to watch, I have been heartened by BBC2's Victorian Farm. Eventually, I found what I was looking for in the most wonderful old brown-paged volume called Economy Success Cookery. I discovered that an ox's tongue - as it is properly called - should be boiled for two and a half hours ...

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Mutterings and Meanderings: No snow

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Themeless - if not seamless - observations, episodes and soapbox moments, interspersed with the occasional Paddington Bear hard stare. Thursday, February 05, 2009. To those who have kindly asked where I am, I am pleased to report that I am not stuck, neck deep in a drift of snow. In fact, the deepest I have been this week is probably half an inch in Newcastle on Monday morning. Here on my wee stretch of the coast, we have so far been denied the white stuff that has enveloped much of the country. As the L...

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Mutterings and Meanderings: Merry Christmas

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Themeless - if not seamless - observations, episodes and soapbox moments, interspersed with the occasional Paddington Bear hard stare. Wednesday, December 24, 2008. To all my blog friends old, new, virtual and physical, and indeed to anyone who happens upon this little piece of the Internet. Wishing you all the best for the festive season and 2009. Love M&M and the Grey Mare xxx. And to you, M&M. 24 December 2008 at 15:09. Happy Christmas to you too! 24 December 2008 at 15:18. Hope your Christmas is white.

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Mutterings and Meanderings: Brambling

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Themeless - if not seamless - observations, episodes and soapbox moments, interspersed with the occasional Paddington Bear hard stare. Thursday, August 16, 2007. At school. His. Poems may have been thought-provoking but I much preferred. Something inescapably bloody about brambles; as Seamus says, they look like ‘a plate of eyes’: much more macabre than desiccated bodies in the peat. Brambling always makes me feel somewhat like the prince in Sleeping Beauty. Stay at home dad. 16 August 2007 at 23:00.

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Mutterings and Meanderings: Of cars and cleaning

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Themeless - if not seamless - observations, episodes and soapbox moments, interspersed with the occasional Paddington Bear hard stare. Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Of cars and cleaning. My car is a rather clapped out. Called Charlie. I have had him for nearly six years; that’s longer than some marriages last. But I am not kind to him. He is forced to do a 100-mile round trip five days a week; I tell people in his hearing that I want a diesel and I openly lust after a 4x4 with. It was worse when I smoked....

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Mutterings and Meanderings: December 2008

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Themeless - if not seamless - observations, episodes and soapbox moments, interspersed with the occasional Paddington Bear hard stare. Wednesday, December 24, 2008. To all my blog friends old, new, virtual and physical, and indeed to anyone who happens upon this little piece of the Internet. Wishing you all the best for the festive season and 2009. Love M&M and the Grey Mare xxx. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A tired Grey Mare. Mutterings and Meanderings is a tag-free zone. Books, mud and compost.

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Mutterings and Meanderings: August 2008

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Themeless - if not seamless - observations, episodes and soapbox moments, interspersed with the occasional Paddington Bear hard stare. Saturday, August 30, 2008. And so the year turns. Failed to produce a single fruit this year, ditto the pear which admittedly surpassed itself last year with a veritable orchard's worth on its own, and the apples have been poor. The plums - those that were not hijacked by wasps - were good, but yet again the hedgerows are where the real treasure is to be found. The compet...

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Merry Daze: Flying!

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Often in the mud always looking to the light. Sunday, 20 March 2011. Today I've been flying from Biggin Hill, in a light aircraft, flown by Tom, my eldest son. He's training for a private pilot's licence. In the back seat I was two things - silent while he did his thing - and terribly proud. Boy to man. His own man. And a darn sight more focussed and competent than his mother has ever been! Go Tom. Keep being yourself. Posted by merry weather. If your boy wants to do it nows the time. That must have been...

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Mutterings and Meanderings: And so the year turns

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Themeless - if not seamless - observations, episodes and soapbox moments, interspersed with the occasional Paddington Bear hard stare. Saturday, August 30, 2008. And so the year turns. Failed to produce a single fruit this year, ditto the pear which admittedly surpassed itself last year with a veritable orchard's worth on its own, and the apples have been poor. The plums - those that were not hijacked by wasps - were good, but yet again the hedgerows are where the real treasure is to be found. I can't be...

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Mutterings and Meanderings: July 2008

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Themeless - if not seamless - observations, episodes and soapbox moments, interspersed with the occasional Paddington Bear hard stare. Tuesday, July 29, 2008. The delights of dressage. The Grey Mare and I have a new hobby. No, not her dropping me in the long grass when birds fly out of it unexpectedly (which has happened twice in the last month, the first of which necessitated me hobbling around with a stick for two days). but dressage. The lovely soft dressage horseness we had almost achieved at home we...