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Failed fudge. Failed Soap. Ah well, there is always tomorrow.
We don’t see Lulu often. But she is always there. Watching. Just like us. Yesterdays comments were so refreshing. You are all wonderful. Here we were (well I was) thinking that our contentment in solitude was in fact ‘Anti Social’ when in fact we are all good and fine and normal little Fellowship hermits in…
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The lack of chatter in the box
I discovered an interesting thing about myself while I was away. Maybe I knew it along. Have you ever worked in an old fashioned darkroom. With film, good old fashioned honest film. You expose your image with a light projector through the negative and onto the photo paper, then in your dark room you slide…
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Home again, Home again, Jiggedy Jig.
I know. I know, I say that all the time. But it is true. Who does not want to do a Jig when you are finally delivered back Home. Home again, Home again. Jiggedy – Jig! Home. Our favourite destination. Though, like all Immigrants and I am one, as are many of the Fellowship, we…
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Cameos from California
Actually more of a vignette, but cameo and California rolls off the tongue.. As we speak I am off out this morning to check all our animals on the farmy. c Tomorrow we will get ourselves all up to date on the farm. But we have been in good hands. The UnBloggers have been out…
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And last but not least – Lyn of Virginia.
Today, as you read, I will be wending my weary way home. Hopping planes, trains and and automobiles plus a bus or two until I am all the way back home. Door to door is about 15 hours. This has been such a lovely break and the unBloggers have been stunning. And here is Lyn!…
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Mere’s Guest Post from the Tundra
Good Morning everyone from California. Our John tells me that all is well back on the farmy. Not long now and we can see for ourselves. But I am loving the Un-Bloggers series. (We must do this again.) Today our Un-Blogger Post comes from the flat, flat tundra. Thank you Mere for taking over…
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