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  1. @delorfinde Yes; good tips @ darktea.co.uk/blog/ask-advic… - one of her most popular posts, apparently. Good-luck with your novel m'dear
  2. @NotHardToDream Seem to collect Thorntons at this time of year. Deprive me of some boxes please. LOL
  3. No snow. Just a rainy downpour. Just a little atmospheric tweaking to below freezing...
  4. holiday p2. Just passing North York Moors coated in purple heather into Whitby Folk Week. Sheep and folds of red sky. The welshman's Soho.
  5. a neighbours having DIY trouble - there's a wood-cut shelf strewn and disjointed on the pavement.
  6. what shackles the man who harnesses horses, and oppresses clowns; the employer, marshalling most of our daylight hours. My rural heartbeat.
  7. feels prowd seeing the orange colours of the Hull & Humber clipper berthed-up & gently twisting, and the Larkin Toads, and FRÜIT opening.
  8. Mum happy at her surprise Wii Fit+ she once mentioned. Expect 'take it back' teething cries. Good to see my folk in June's Hull in Print p10
  9. BP say they capture 10K barrels from the gulf spill, 'and hope to capture more as new equipment is installed'. What, when the camels arrive?
  10. charmed by Otters at Scarborough Sealife, & in each county. Social, chirpy, dexterous, and one can juggle, for fur cleaning or kid's parties
  11. heard a big band battle of Oxford vs Cambridge Uni Jazz Orchestras. Oxford punchy off hard musical scores and Cam adding a Jazz singer. Good
  12. trying to wee into kid sized toilets on a moving train ought be an Olympic Sport. I think I got Britain a Bronze.
  13. shop reading a short on Standard English, I need it, but my warping is not my punctuation. Maybe I'll loan John Steinbech's Grapes of Wrath.
  14. with only a 1% rise in its popular vote Clegg is King Maker and hankers to forever keep that position, in the hocum that PR is democratic
  15. gazing at the oft filmed neck-cracking ceiling of King's College Chapel, Cambs, with its webed fan-vaults and half high organ Cherub plinths
  16. is "unsafe" at platforms and "not much help" at being a train timetable. Love learner disabilities. No mention of my swell shirt & boots.
  17. bankcard lost, stopped by bank, mild shock off shower, but nought compares to my emotional sorrow. Yet the Lord is mine, so I hope in him.
  18. saw a 1,2&3 foot pike suntanning together in Beverley Beck. Felt like Goldilocks. Songs of Praise and Antiques Roadshow at Minster in May.
  19. would be terrible on longhaul flights. Just a 2.3/4 trip from London and I'm already wrecking the train seat. Good day at V&A's Decode.
  20. Yay, Film Night at Reel! With the choice down to Mr C. Reel Cinemas are cheaper Mon-Wed. Will it be red tomatoes or green peppers?