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Blog 142 – 2.10.21…. get out there and grow bolder

Posted on Oct 2, 2021 by aintwegotitmade

Wooo…although about 35,000 people a day are catching covid in these parts (apparently the highest rate in Europe)…many are returning to some kind of post-pandemic normal. We are short of van/lorry/tanker drivers and the brexiters are probably biting their lips … Continue reading →

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Blog 126 – 13.3.20. Panic buying goes viral…

Posted on Mar 13, 2020 by aintwegotitmade

Hmmm…husband and I live 5 minutes walk from a major supermarket. We haven’t done a big weekly shop for about 2 decades….we go in every few days..and we aren’t expecting that to change.

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Blog 125 – 14.12.19. Over to you God….

Posted on Dec 14, 2019 by aintwegotitmade

Strictly Come Dancing is one of my favourite TV programmes…guaranteed to make me feel good. Love seeing people blossom and move towards being their best each week.

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Blog 117 – 26.7.19. I have confidence in me!

Posted on Jul 26, 2019 by aintwegotitmade

We have had the hottest July day on record folks…luckily in the UK that doesn’t mean we should panic…’cos the weather will change…quite quickly (tick)…and there will be rain (tick)…and thunder (tick)…

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Blog 112 – 25.11.18. Dog day winter afternoon…

Posted on Nov 25, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

This is a day when I should have been feeling low. But somehow smiles managed to accidentally break out of me as I was coming home from church…and I got smiles back. I popped into a new local fashion boutique … Continue reading →

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Blog 110 – 5.10.18. The sheer Spanish, French, Chinese-ness of it…

Posted on Oct 5, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

Look…I’m not saying that London is some kind of ‘rosy haven’ of a place…well, except that when I do focus on the rosy haven-ness of it, it becomes easier to see more rosy haven, so to speak. And I do … Continue reading →

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Blog 107 – 30.6.18. And so we went…

Posted on Jun 30, 2018 by aintwegotitmade

And so we went….to Rutland. Never heard of Rutland? Good. We’d like to keep it that way. We escaped the building dust for a week by driving 2 hours or so north of London to England’s smallest county.

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Blog 98 – 16.11.17. Edinburgh wheelchair adventure…..

Posted on Nov 16, 2017 by aintwegotitmade

On Monday this week, my mum and I went on an adventure. She’s 90. She looks after herself and is a very joyous person. Unfortunately, with me as her wheelchair pusher, she was in for a bumpy ride.

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Blog 97 – 5.10.17. Camino Finale: finding the treasure, and a spanish Fawlty Towers*..

Posted on Oct 18, 2017 by aintwegotitmade

On arrival in Santiago, I looked out for Anna from Freiburg who I’d met a number of times and we agreed by text to meet later, near the Cathedral. I then spend the next 2 hours queuing to show my … Continue reading →

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Blog 96 – 3.10.17. Camino 5 – Off with her head?

Posted on Oct 17, 2017 by aintwegotitmade

On arrival in Arzua (only about 40Km left to Santiago!!), I find I am staying in the same place as Priscilla, a 60(?)-something Floridian lady born in Puerto Rico and now living in a 5 bed house, on her own….family … Continue reading →

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