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Ahem 2004-07

Splayed Chnoblibrot Bazaar

Ahem, We had Alli’s parents, Laurie and Kay, to stay with us for a few days.…

28. November 2007Read More

Tokyo Wisdom Licorice

Ahem This is the month that we all thought that winter would drift in, as there are…

31. October 2007Read More

Wheezing Walnut Sideboards

Ahem With all this mist and mellow fruitfulness around, thoughts are turning to winter and…

29. September 2007Read More

Copious Loggia Quinces

Ahem Our annual holiday in La Hune, Mansonville was as eventful as ever, full of…

1. September 2007Read More

Heidi Stirrups Aromatic

Ahem, Alli and Ella have done much of the family´s travelling recently (as well as…

26. July 2007Read More

Farewell Edgy Arthropods

Ahem The highlight of the month has definitely been the Farewell Party for the Departing…

30. June 2007Read More

Cutlass Lido Widdershins

Ahem The merry month started with hot weather but finished with abrupt downpours and a clammy-cold Whitsun…

31. May 2007Read More

Amalfi Emos Memorabilia

Ahem Sunny April has confirmed our suspicions that in Basel winter was not just late. It hardly…

30. April 2007Read More

Manhattan Sistine Bouquet

Ahem It has been a big month for travelling, featuring a major Stanbrook family holiday…

30. March 2007Read More

Breathless Party Confetti: February 2007

Ahem I’m sure you all know the feeling. For several weeks I had been wondering…

28. February 2007Read More

Fanfaronade Smattering Blossom

Ahem We welcomed the New Year with our customary annual family gathering on our balcony…

29. January 2007Read More

Rambunctious Motley Reindeers

Ahem This has been a crowded, jostling rambunctious month, teeming with alarum, pele-mele, noises off…

29. November 2006Read More

Sepia Fender Banter

Ahem I have noticed that the year is hurtling through its course at an ever…

3. November 2006Read More

Duck Dog Teppanyaki

Ahem We had some welcome visitors at the beginning of the month, most particularly Miss…

29. September 2006Read More

Slug Flatpack Buzz

Ahem The incessant rain, east winds and recurrent rolling thunder determined that August was wraithed…

1. September 2006Read More

Roof Goellette Seersucker

Ahem While the girls have enjoyed some time in England we have all spent much…

8. August 2006Read More

Civic Circus Sausages

Ahem We have all been spending more time in the garden as the salad days…

3. July 2006Read More

Mystery Picnic Auks

Ahem Alli and I have been going out together! Yes! We have had dinner together…

31. May 2006Read More

Medals Clinton Bolt

Ahem, A proud father reports: Gwen has been winning medals in the swimming pool. Two…

2. May 2006Read More

Taxi Snow Shaving

Ahem We (Jessie, Ella, their friends and I) have been to see the Magic Numbers…

3. April 2006Read More

Ski Midnight Cheeses

Ahem In the time of snow, always turn left not right at the motorway that…

28. February 2006Read More

Burgeoning Plexiglass Toys

Ahem A year full of promise started for us in the company of our friends…

1. February 2006Read More

Monumental Toppling Infections

Ahem December started while I was on a business visit to America, and I had…

28. December 2005Read More

Castle Quechua Trundle

Ahem We have had our friend Ramon to stay for a last few days before…

30. November 2005Read More

Art Monkey Mustang

Ahem This month we have had many difficulties with our computers, the internet and wireless…

31. October 2005Read More

Lawless Bamboo Chippendales

Ahem We have decided to try to sell our house in Sussex. I suppose the…

10. October 2005Read More

Gusto Inner Jerkin

Ahem We were no sooner back from holiday than Jessie announced that she was going…

30. August 2005Read More

Hail Smashing Holidays

Ahem The first few days of the month of July found me alone in the…

28. August 2005Read More

Thunderstorm Samba Fish

Ahem Summer has arrived and so have all those things related to summer that we…

27. June 2005Read More

Beer Pedometer Microbial

Ahem It has been another rainy month all told and we have all struggled to…

31. May 2005Read More

Innocent Spring Rain

Ahem April has been described as the cruellest month and it is true that April…

28. April 2005Read More

Chinning Serendipity Nirvana

Ahem March is an expensive month in the Stanbrook household, as I find myself presented…

31. March 2005Read More

Vinyl Fondue Killers

Ahem The beginning of the month found us all in very bad shape, and even…

28. February 2005Read More

Disport Frost Hollywood

Ahem We’ve been ice-skating quite a lot, and mostly since just before Christmas. The whole…

25. January 2005Read More

Collywobble Knackered Spent

Ahem. I bring news of my latest bicycle accident. It was about three weeks ago.…

18. November 2004Read More

Carouselle Smartish Hare

Ahem I had another crash on the bike, well, a minor but abrupt fall as…

15. October 2004Read More

Morris Zoo Presidentials

Ahem I have finished Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights, the first book in a trilogy for…

29. September 2004Read More

Wobbly Sunflowers Gladioli: August 2004

Ahem We are only now coming to the end of the drawn-out hassle of moving…

10. September 2004Read More

Biotechnology Gym Hurdy-Gurdy: June 2004

Dear Jessie Well now let me see……….. It’s quite confusing for me at the moment…

8. June 2004Read More

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Lionel Stanbrook is an editor, diarist, journalist, writer, re-writer, word designer, and content creator. This site contains the best of Lionel’s articles, prose, poetry, blogs, musings and perspectives, as well as a writer’s folio, a recent CV (perhaps the most creative part of all his work), and the monthly diary Ahem, written about his personal life, work, travel, emotions and experiences since 2004.

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