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2020 Review
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I don’t know what it is about the arbitrary change of calendar year that prompts such renewal of ambition in all of us, I have all but given up on New Year’s resolutions and don’t agree with the New Year, New Me hype but yet here I am with a renewed sense of purpose now that 2021 has really started… Read more »
Quarantine catch up – Yoghurt making edition.
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Obviously this was written a few weeks ago but for some reason I didn’t get as far as clicking publish… So everything has changed a little since the last time I actually published a blog post and tbh I haven’t felt like sitting down and typing anything out recently but here I am talking to the ether again…Everything and nothing… Read more »
Nikki’s 2018 Make Nine – update
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So it’s somehow got to 6 months through the year… quite how I’m really not sure. It’s has just whizzed by. But I thought it would be a good idea to do an update on my Make Nine challenge that I posted about at the beginning of the year. In Progress Blanket – my red lounge blanket – this is… Read more »
Monday sevens #102
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Here is this weeks “Sunday” Sevens post, linking up to Natalie to give a snap shot view of how the last week has gone. Well it’s been a very busy couple of weeks since we last managed a Monday sevens post and lots has been going on with some pretty major milestones passed! So this might be a bit of… Read more »
Monday Sevens #101
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Here is this weeks “Sunday” Sevens post, linking up to Natalie to give a snap shot view of how the last week has gone. So somehow May got away from us! I’m not entirely sure how that happened but we have been up to a lot during the past month so here is a much shorter round-up of what we… Read more »
Monday Sevens #100
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Here is this weeks “Sunday” Sevens post, linking up to Natalie to give a snap shot view of how the last week has gone. *klaxons* So Nikki here with this milestone post – Monday Sevens #100! That’s quite a few weeks of posting! Although we might not have managed a post last week (I do have good reason though!) so… Read more »
Monday Sevens #96
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Here is this weeks “Sunday” Sevens post, linking up to Natalie to give a snap shot view of how the last week has gone. Pippa here again with a Monday Sevens post actually on a Monday for once, it’s amazing what a few days off work can do for your scheduling. I have been working all week so not much… Read more »
Monday Sevens #95
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Here is this weeks “Sunday” Sevens post, linking up to Natalie to give a snap shot view of how the last week has gone. Only a day late this week… Monday was far too nice a morning for me to be sitting on the computer so I spent it sitting out on the deck recharging my batteries, soaking up the… Read more »
Monday Sevens #92
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Here is this weeks “Sunday” Sevens post, linking up to Natalie to give a snap shot view of how the last week has gone. We changed to blogging these on a Monday to give ourselves more of a chance of actually putting them out on the day that we said we would, and yet here we are blogging a day… Read more »