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I do understand what you're saying, but.. It's incredibly useful having a base to drop into when visiting my dad instead of having to book hotel rooms every 6-8 weeks. My gut reaction is that if we could rent out most of it, and keep the extension (which is almost a granny flat except no cooking fac...

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Richard

Saw my brother for the first time in 32 years when I went to see my dad over the weekend. My brother was exactly as he was, and totally different at the same time. He's bigger than I remembered, and now is covered in body builder's muscle and a bodybuilder's tan. His taste in clothes has deteriorate...

Steam.Jo I wish you all the best with it. We gave up processing our own fleeces as they were way too much like hard work!

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Richard.

I must admit I'm not hugely happy I'm in the photo, but ...Squeaky...

Ah well, I'm far from the first to show their photo on the forum. At least I don't look much like the convict who got their photo on my driving license instead of me .

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Richard

Sheep. Yes, they can get utterly caked in muck. I will confess I viewed my mum's sheep as the most willfully stupid creatures on the planet. One or two could get through any fence on the farm, but when the rest of the flock didn't follow, they wanted to get back. And could they ever get back in the ...

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Richard

Not sure I like doing this as it's my first identifiable photo on the net, but I thought Squeaky was funny yesterday evening. I had just prevented him from grabbing Orianna's supper, and she snapped this photo while he was feeling persecuted. I was a little concerned he might struggle as he saw 'his...

Please forgive this one:
https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythe ... e_catcher/

Slightly more pleasant than when Ozzie comes in with a live mouse wrapped in an ivy leaf because he's not allowed to bring mice into the house.

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Richard

Oyster

[The thought of eating an oyster makes me gag, but I love the effect of Mother-of-Pearl / Nacre.]

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Richard

Pounding

(What often happens a while after a bearing starts chattering. A short time later everything often goes ominously silent.)

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Richard

Heathland

There are some days when this feels so true...

https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythe ... /#lightbox

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Richard

Zone

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Richard.

She loved it. Much was based in Kings School, but there was lots of traipsing to & from the cathedral. Her highlight was a candlelit tour of the cathedral after dark one evening.

She ended up walking 15,000 steps a day for the week.

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Richard.

To get this going again:

Dandelions

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Richard

Unfortunately, once in a while I have a dream where it happens. Tracy's usually woken up by my squeaking in my sleep before the point where I hit out, and wakes me up before I damage my knuckles or (rather more importantly) her. Last week she was off at a church residential course in Canterbury &...

That's brilliant.

I rather like this one: https://cheezburger.com/9903826432/nice-and-warm

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Richard

I agree, that article was fascinating. Hadn't meant to be awake to hear it, but having punched my bedside locker in my sleep and knocked it out of the bedroom door onto the landing, I managed to wake myself up (and the rest of the household) and couldn't get back to sleep, for some reason. Regards, ...

Not having an external perspective from coming into the UK with fresh eyes, I ask 'Is this actually a peculiarly British thing?'. If it is, it's hard to credit, but I do wonder because the UK does seem more bothered by cruelty to 'dumb' animals than 'horrible' children. The RSPCA (Royal Society for ...