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Spring Lambs

Best time to watch lambs go crazy is little before dark – not as obvious but still happens when in a larger field. Looked up why, found this: ‘Sheep do sleep, either standing up or lying down. As they are animals that (some) like to eat, they sleep lightly by taking short naps rather than […]

Lidl experience

Reallised walking into a local Lidl supermarket that you can enter but you can never leave .. unless you walk through the whole store and out through the checkouts. This only happened because i was trying to go back outside to get a trolley. And when you leave – will get a huge car park […]

Candlemas Day – Midwinter

February 2nd is Candlemas Day, the middle of winter, where winter gives way to Spring. It has also more significant meaning but there is German proverb “The badger peeps out of his hole on Candlemas Day and if he finds snow, walks abroad but if he sees the sun shining he draws back into his […]

Reuben’s Great Hebridean Escape

“i’m not that sort of survival expert that rubs two squirrels together to start a fire” Monty Halls

Power Looms at the Avoca Mill

The price of these products reflects the timeless quality and skill of the craftsmen making these beautiful Throws since 1723 and a little bit of Irish magic delivered to your home and maybe the soft rain on the green fields http://www.honeybeeswax.com

Thailand – Candle Makers story

Thailand is an agricultural country, where in the country, men are farmers and women do not generally have jobs. Their children are either farmers or work in factories in Bangkok. This has changed as handicrafts become more popular in domestic and foreign markets. Many housewives in Thailand make handicrafts from materials available in their local areas; for […]

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Daisy Lace Trim

Daisy Lace Trim – for sale

Its Blue Monday – Dont freeze, dont stop, dont worry

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Bracket Fungus

Cuadrilla in Balcombe may soon be back – with a higher security fence and three more sites granted Planning Application in Sussex

“The company preparing to frack for shale gas in Lancashire announced (in October 2017) it was applying for planning permission to test the flow of oil in its exploration well in West Sussex. Cuadrilla drilled the well at Balcombe in summer 2013, attracting three months of protest” Ruth Hayhurst Information about progress of granted Planning […]

Rebuild your body after Roo Flu – have a Turkish bath

We spent most of Christmas coughing and shivering – the Roo flu leaves you feeling a real dog’s breakfast. Discovered that Turkish Baths help drive those bugs out of your body.. “The flu virus can linger in the body for five to six weeks after the symptoms have cleared. According to Professor Ron Eccles, a […]

Final Fantasy VII

Happy – Dance

Winter’s Night

Outside, the wind circles and dances round the house and fieldsrain lashes the window panes.Inside, the fire hisses and pops and Fluffy filled with turkeyslumbers under the Christmas tree …sparkling and glittering with lights and baubles Only a thin fox struggles for its footing returning hungrydown the country lane – watched by a lonesome owltoo […]

Merry Christmas – Fröhliche Weihnachten – God Jul – Hyvää Joulua – Joyeux Noël

Good hearing could be a benefit of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder

‘People who can make out a conversation in a crowded pub are more likely to hear voices in their heads and suffer mental health problems like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, a study suggests.’ report by Jeff Farrell of the Independent more Could it also be true they are more likely to be sea sick – […]

Nigel Farage refuses to give up EU pension: ‘Why should my family suffer?’

Nigel Farage has refused to give up his EU pension after Brexit, asking: “Why should my family and others suffer even more?” The former Ukip leader was asked on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show whether he would stick to his principles and turn down his annual MEP pension. When he was asked if he would […]