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Been raining lightly for all of the day, still raining now. Pretty grim old day.

I've never done the crossing from Newhaven @Busy-Lizzie, but hope it was a smooth one and you're safely back on French soil and avoiding any roadblocks on the motorways. We got everything on our b & m list, bar the laundry basket. Wasn't one that was 'just right'. Sounds like a return to cold...

Thirty plus years ago one October I took the train from Baden Baden changed once (I think) and went along the Rhine to Cologne where the train went along the Ruhr Valley towards Hamburg and I got off at Herford. The whole journey was fascinating, but especially along the Rhine with vineyards on...

A young priest is asked to stand in and take Mass at the local nunnery as he walks through the town a young lady calls out and asks if he'd like a quickie, he doesn't know what she means and just carries on. The Mass goes well and the Mother Superior invites him to have a sherry in her study....

Well the ground is very wet so not much. However on the way to the car I noticed that the first crocuses are coming into flower, more snowdrops have popped up and a saw the first Anemone nemorosa flower about to open. On the staging on the decking the gladioli are in full leaf and, note to self,...

I worked at CHQ, so was part of the dictatorship , but served my time in branches and always spoke up in their defence! We did have good cooperation both ways, until takeovers and mergers became the norm . It was a long time ago now and I certainly wouldn’t want to go back.

Oh, what handsome boys. I have always preferred boys.

I was looking idly at the rain out of an upper floor window an hour ago when I saw two beautiful foxes cross the garden from right to left in single file. They seemed unhurried but businesslike - straight across the garden with no hesitation or diversions.

@Fof ours aren't even showing buds! Lovely to see yours in such gorgeous colour.