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20 December 2020

Well, here we are. It’s the last Sunday before Christmas and we are almost ready to dump 2020 into life’s great recycling bin and look forward to something (anything?) better next year. So much we’ve missed doing this year and so many people we’ve missed seeing. Next year’s going to be very busy making up for all that lost time!

13 December 2020

What an uninspiring week – cold, wet, grey, freezing, foggy, misty . . . glimpses of the sun few and far between.

And the “news” is equally uninspiring. Who could have imagined that the Tories would give us both World-Beating incompetence in dealing with Covid and the economic calamity that is Brexit? At the same time.

6 December 2020

Hooray! Lockdown is over! Now, we’ve moved on to a Tiered Lockdown which is, in our case, just about the same as the previous lockdown. Hooray!

29 November 2020

What a good week! We’ve celebrated a memorably memorable occasion that, fortunately, we both remembered, had a great walk across some very muddy fields as well as some splendid virtual bike rides and even got to gate-crash a virtual Thanksgiving gathering. What could be better than that?

22 November 2020

Week Two (or is it Three? Doesn’t time fly when you are enjoying yourself) of Lockdown II completed successfully. We’re still on speaking terms with one another (just about) and have spent much of this week together engaged in an outdoor project which, as I said last time, we should have completed during the summer when the weather was perfect for completing outdoor projects! Hey ho. As it is, it was cloudy, windy, cool and occasionally wet during our exertions but we’re making progress. We’ll have photos and a full explanation when the project is complete. At this rate that’s likely to be about June 2022.

15 November 2020

Week one of Lockdown II completed successfully. Only three more weeks to go and then everything will be back to normal (according to the Prime Minister). Typical Boris – over promising and under delivering.

8 November 2020

It’s been a glorious, glorious week. We’ve had a high pressure system hovering over the UK which has brought some beautiful bright blue skies with magnificent dazzling sunshine. Chilly, to be sure, with our first ground frosts of the year but we’ll take the dry, sunny weather any time.

1 November 2020

It’s been a (largely) miserable, wet and windy week. Lashings and lashings of rain and howling winds – I guess the summer is well and truly past.

25 October 2020

Dorset is beautiful, wherever you go . . .

Song and lyrics by the Yetties (also performed by the Wurzels if that’s your pleasure). And, indeed, it is strikingly beautiful. Marvellous coastlines, stunning clifftop paths, luscious green fields and gorgeous deep blue skies (when the sun is shining).

18 October 2020

We’re back! After a fabulously refreshing four days in Dorset. The weather was simply gorgeous, the cottage in which we were staying was outstanding and in a most extraordinarily idyllic setting just at the foot of Golden Cap and Dorset was gorgeous in the sunshine.