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Scary Snowmen

by Alan on January 24, 2013

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Scary snowmenI saw this picture on Facebook, and reckoned that if you were walking through a graveyard one winter evening and saw them then they’d have a pretty striking impact!

 

It’s not just kids that want to play in the Snow

by Alan on January 19, 2013

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At around 6.30 this morning decided to let us know that he wanted to go out and play in the snow, he normally sleeps until 8.30 given the chance, but this morning he was absolutely leaping and raring to go.

The results of our “Day of Chaos”

by Alan on January 18, 2013

in Family, Food

cacsI know one man’s meat is another man’s poison, but there really was quite a difference in the way that today panned out. Sure, we had some snow and the schools were closed, rail and some bus services were disrupted etc etc and the media reports were talking about the Day of Chaos across Wales.

But it was all a bit different in our house where my dear wife, , had been ordered to work from home as her school was closed.

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Enervating. What a great word that is!

9 January 2013 Family

I’d not heard of the word Enervating until tonight, but when I found it in a review of photo sharing websites and looked up its meaning I realised what a great word it is. All I’d been trying to do is work out a simple way to share some of my photos from my laptop [...]

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2 questions I really hate hearing

9 January 2013 Family

There are 2 questions I really hate hearing and they kinda come together every year: What would you like for Christmas? What are you doing on New Year’s Eve? Seasonally the former arrives in our house from around mid-November onwards. And the answer is almost always: “I don’t know!” What use is that as an [...]

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Progress comes at a Price

31 December 2012 Family

Sometimes progress comes at a price. When the British armies of yesteryear replaced their Longbows with Crossbows their rate of fire fell from around 30 arrows a minute to one every minute. The range of course was improved, but the volume was significantly reduced. It was however seen as progress. Nowadays, the cost of progress [...]

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Why does Christmas start so early these days?

30 November 2012 Family

Do you love Christmas? Are you one of those people who get their presents bought in October, the cards written in November and the 10 foot tree up and decorated by the first week of December? Or are you like me and many others I know who just wish the whole thing would start when [...]

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