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On Friday we are getting our sitting room chimney swept. Of course I have visions of consumptive Victorian urchins in rags shinning up my chimney stack but in reality it will probably be a corpulent balding man in blue overalls with a hoover.
The chimney is also being surveyed to see what state our flue is [...]

Well we’re finally back from holiday. Loads done, loads doing and loads to do.
We had approximately half of the time away under serene blaring hot blue skies, half under some of the worst storms Northern Italy has seen for years. Maltempo indeed. So, erm mixed.
We drove up and down many ace passes and managed to [...]

M and I went over to look at the street we are moving into last night. I now think of it as Lovely Street™ and last night with the trees in full leaf and the sun shining it lived up to it’s name.
On Lovely Street™ en route to the pub we spotted a bruiser [...]

M and I went out last night to celebrate having such a big - albeit temporarily - bank balance. Some of the profits of our hard earned labour went on a lovely pub meal and a bottle of prosecco. Sitting in the bar of The Thomas Kemp quaffing a glass full of fizz looking down [...]

Hot

1. Wimbledon
The tennis is upon us again and it gives me an excuse (let’s face it, any old excuse) to watch fit young men and eat clotted cream.
2. Book Porn
I had such good intentions this morning walking past the secondhand book shop in North Laine. I really truly did. The covers of the vintage penguins [...]