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Rain has been falling all morning. A steady stream of relentless rain. The kind of rain that slowly washes everything away without anybody noticing…
Somehow we’re all in bed several hours earlier than usual. Everybody else is sound asleep. I’m sitting in bed, laptop propped on my lap, tapping quietly…
The clock just ticked past 9am on Sunday morning, and I’m sitting in the “study” (junk room) admiring my own handiwork. There have always been two desks…
We very nearly had some snow yesterday afternoon. A few flakes fell from the sky, and immediately polarised everybody that noticed - filling them with…
Just a few words, given that I haven't posted since returning from Amsterdam. I picked up a bug somewhere along the way - and have been suffering quite…
We got home late last night. The train journey home seemed to go on forever, and then the car we had booked to meet us at the station got stuck in…
For our final night in Amsterdam we headed first for a meal at small restaurant on the banks of the Amstel river, and then on towards the Rembrandt…
After yesterday's epic treck around Amsterdam, we slowed down a little, and only booked one destination for the day - the Koninklijk Paleis - the Royal…
After scraping ourselves out of bed this morning we wandered down to the hotel bar, which had been transformed into a cosmopolitan cafe filled with…
A car quietly arrived outside our house at 5:30am this morning. We quietly gathered our bags and tip-toed out to meet the driver - worrying over…

February 2023

In a few days time, I will celebrate the completion of fifty laps of the sun. In order to celebrate the continued successful landing of one foot in…
Isn’t it funny how we look forward to the arrival of the weekend, but then spend most of the weekend watching it vanish before our eyes? The clock just…
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