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A View (120 Miles Or So) From The Greenhouse; Whitby(ish) A Postcard

6th June 2023 Colin Cross 2393 Comments

First things first, as the saying goes. Starting bottom left, the vine flourishes and has benefitted, in no small measure, from a good old fashioned “clip out”, more of which next time. Before we get [more…]

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A Postcard From India; The Food

14th February 2023 Colin Cross 2457 Comments

You’ll have heard all the scare stories, especially if you’ve travelled to the Middle East, Eastern Europe or Asia; before we set off I lost count of the number of people who warned me about [more…]

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Fish & Ships

26th January 2022 SharpieType301 3686 Comments

I’d like to begin by introducing you to a rather special lady. She was born in February 1957, the first of twelve sisters. A real local lass, she lived and worked from the Humber all [more…]

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Mystery Album, Part Eight

6th November 2021 Always Worth Saying 2710 Comments

There are pleasures even the most adventurous of lives can deny a gentleman. Despite the tales of derring-do from his previous life more interesting (occasionally mildly exaggerated), there are places your author has rarely visited [more…]

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Thou shall have a Fishy, on a little Dishy

28th June 2021 Going Postal 4260 Comments

I’ve reached an age where recollecting the past is (mostly) a good thing, & happy memories of less hard times well spent, come flooding back. Childhood memories are cherished forever, and when we talk about [more…]

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Gardening In A Pandemic (A Seaside Break)

4th May 2021 Colin Cross 2626 Comments

Everything in the garden being as rosy as it could be for the time of year, and our glorious leaders deigning to allow us the limited freedom to widen our small horizons, we decided we [more…]

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Flies Undone

30th March 2020 SharpieType301 3614 Comments

Ah the joys of British weather. There we were in Bakewell, on a bitter February day. My husband and I had gone across by bus and, when we’d left home, it had been a nice, [more…]

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Postcard From Zakynthos

4th November 2019 Colin Cross 3012 Comments

It isn’t just about swanning around the Lake District, visiting friends in Devon, Air B&B’ing to Barcelona, holidaying on the West coast of Scotland  or nipping down to Essex for a couple of beers. There [more…]

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Fish and their Chips

26th November 2018 Sweaty Dave 3293 Comments

You’ve seen the creation of the Aquarium, introduction of the fish and corals and watched it settle in.  The set up took around three months from initial purchase, fit out, water conditioning and maturing to [more…]

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