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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Karma is coming
I had a colleague I worked with for 5 years – it got to the stage we had to have pre-meetings in order to get the shouting matches over with (before they were witnessed by startled members of the community, … Continue reading
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Here and gone
Fabulous bracing walk around Stackhouse onto the moor. Have some lovely pictures of empty moorland…where there were coveys of 20 or more flying grouse (single non breeders or family groups) racing over the horizon. For some reason I just couldn’t get my … Continue reading
The sun is shining
Crisp, glorious misty morning in the dales. Trying to explain what Quorn is to a 13 year old…well it’s made from mushrooms – sort of extracted – (at this stage I’m totally winging it and about to resort to “look … Continue reading
As one week passes
One week already – so fast. Fabulous drive to work in the early morning – rising up to Ribblehead station, the mist lifting off the hills, rising in columns from the conifer plantations and water droplets crawling across the moorgrass … Continue reading
Diary of a year
This blog is “tales in a year in the life of” – missing out any boring bits (like how many peas are on the plate…). And when the year is up? My work here will be done. I had a farm in Africa … Continue reading