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Wednesday 3rd December 2025 - Christmas Events, Tree and So Handsome
The posters, promoting the forthcoming Christmas events are dotted around the village. Rather than covering these, here in my blog, I have taken photos of the posters and included them below (click on the individual posters to enlarge). As you can see there will be plenty to see and join in, as well as refreshments to be enjoyed, in the lead up to Christmas. I am looking forward to seeing the Christmas trees in the church. There was a brilliant selection last year, all wi

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3 days ago2 min read


Tuesday 25th November - I Forgot, Making a Start and Free Ride
I nearly forgot; today is a blog day! What I did forget was, to add a thank you to the end of my last blog, for all the help I received with the Poppy Appeal. So, thank you to Derek, Martin & Peter for assisting with counting the donations, to the Methodist Church for once again letting us use the church for the count, to Overstrand Post Office for facilitating the banking of the donations, to St Martins Church for donating the collection from the Remembrance Day service, t

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Nov 262 min read


Friday 27th December 2024 - Mainly, but not all, About Christmas
I hadn’t expected, or planned, to be writing a blog today. Instead, if it had not been for our youngest son, contracting the...

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Dec 28, 20243 min read


Thursday 12th December 2024 - Barely Turned Over, No Lengthy Waits and Boxing Day Swim
The battery in our car has been, what you could term, ‘on its way out’ for a while now. We don’t use the car that often and to make sure...

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Dec 13, 20241 min read


Wednesday 4th December 2024 - All About Wreaths
Last year, I had a bit of a disaster with our Christmas door wreath. In the past I used an oasis base for our door wreath but as this...

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Dec 5, 20242 min read


Saturday 30th November 2024 - Variable, Dumped and Definite Plus
The weather has been a bit variable this week, with rain, frosts, clouds and sun. Wednesday was decidedly wet so, instead of going out...

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Dec 1, 20242 min read


Tuesday 26th November 2024 - Storm Bert and December Calendar of Events
Weather warnings were put out by the media, as Storm Bert was set to cause havoc across the country. Apart from some properties losing...

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Nov 27, 20242 min read
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