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Ahem, Rain fell in solid chapters and the sun shone in free verse through the first merry half of May, although the unwelcome drizzle on […]
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Ahem, For over 60 years of my life I have been Lionel. But all this time I have been triplicitous and deceitful. My first name […]
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Ahem, Alli and I went to Brussels on the Eurostar from St Pancras to visit our friends Laurence and Claude and to celebrate Laurence’s 60th […]
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Ahem, The atrocious rain in the first half of January seemed like a judgment of the gods, restoring a balance disturbed by the absurd heat […]
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Ahem, It’s been a Football World Cup month, and therefore a danger once again to hear far too much of the ruined popular song from […]
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Ahem Our daughter Ella and her partner Sam have become engaged to be married, after over ten years together. They met at university in Loughborough […]
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Ahem The month featured a lot of wind-sweeping wettish rain, streaming curtain-sleeves large and long. However, at the start of the month, haunting traces of […]
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Ahem The month started with a family visit to Southampton to watch cricket in its new and popular form of the Hundred at the Agea […]
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Ahem A small section of the road outside the house was resurfaced one day without warning, with a lorry, a paving machine, several vans, and […]
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Ahem On 5th December, Jurrat knelt in the autumn leaves before our first-born daughter Jessie in the garden of Broad Oaks and asked her to […]