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What’s top of my mind: Mum. Mum was taken to hospital in the middle of the night a few days ago, (not for anything particularly urgent) and while she was there, a routine scan picked up a possible malignancy on one of her kidneys. Poor thing! Ever since Dad tripped over her walker a year […]

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What’s top of my mind: Quilting. This is the finished quilt top for Tom33’s girlfriend Sophie. When I was on a bus in Borneo, I was scrolling on my phone, and I saw a very pretty bundle of fabric from Cutting Cloth. On a whim, I ordered it. When I got back home, I was […]

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What’s top of my mind: Georgia31 and Evan29. Two weeks ago, I sent them a message, giving them 2 weeks’ notice to get all of their things out of my house. It’s not that I mind terribly about having their things here as such… I just want to get the back part of the house […]

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When I retired from teaching, I set a little goal for myself. Every month, unless I was travelling, I’ll go and see something new. I call them “Little Adventures.” What with Mum needing so much attention, this had slipped my mind, until my dear friend Scott, an AVID reader of the blog (haha!), arranged to […]

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