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for the first time, i actually FORGOT to take my daily photo.

but this is what i was doing on day 138.

 

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a strange day of coincidences;

literally co-incidences.

the world is really not so huge a place.

tonight, holiday planning ...

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monday,

and back to the rain again

until this early evening sunlight sliced its way across the room.

spent the day in a training course

learning that i am greeny-blue with a splash of yellow.

that means don't shout at me,

give me the facts,

and then let's have a chat,

apparently.

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we didn't do anything to the flower bed on one side of our garden this spring,

and were really disappointed when only one daffodil showed its face where last year there had been loads;

and then all of a sudden, the whole place turned blue with forget-me-nots.

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the view from guildford castle.
spent a lovely sunny saturday afternoon
shopping and people-watching...

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the colours we can see from our window.

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it was a beautiful morning to cross the solent on the first leg of the holiday ....... hopefully blue skies await in cyprus!

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mr gull was skulking around the friday market this morning when i was on my last shopping foray before departing this island to visit another on Sunday (in the mediterranean sea :o) . i wonder if this gull has been there?

tomorrow's post probably the last from blighty for a week+

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i went on a lunch time walk to window-shop on carnaby street.

for once i enjoyed the hustle and bustle ...

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the part of the day i dislike most,

even more than having to haul myself out from beneath the duvet in the morning,

is making the following day's sandwiches.

it's such a money-saver,

but my god, it is absolutely mind-numbing.

i need some new lunch menu suggestions.

yawn.

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a view over sandown bay with customary low cloud

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if the weather comtinues like this i will get some of these firepalaces into commission ......

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so good to see/feel the sun today ..... this is one of my tulips in the back yard .....

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especially for you helen .......... and to follow, my actual tuesday pic ........

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the beginning of another four day week.

i feel like i could do with a week at home to catch up on everything.

our seedlings have shot up over the long weekend

and the trees outside our place have turned some amazing colours ...

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spent the morning visiting h's folks,

and then as soon as the clouds parted

we shot down to the south coast for a walk along our favourite beach.

we passed these amazing oilseed rape fields on the way ...

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can you tell we've been in the same places?!

dad's birthday was a pleasing combination of owls, ale and steam trains:

a juxtaposition you will only find on the isle of wight.

i desperately wanted to post the photo of me holding a tiny owl

but sadly i didn't take that one!

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pegstraction.

back on the isle of wight for the bank holiday weekend.

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on the walk to work

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it was a bit odd being at work on a bank holiday but i got through a lot of work without a lot of phone calls ........

the photo has nothing to do with gardening but something to do with museums and schools .......

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one of the things i'll remember my birthday for this year is a day out with loved ones in the company of fluffy owls ....... :o))

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meet mrs elizabeth wilson a new addition to the household as per this morning ...... a very nice 18th c pastel

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a study in red ..........

hope we get a better weekend to get outdoors what with birthdays and all ........

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i was brave today and knitted on the train.

i kept my eyes on the wool

but i'm pretty sure no one batted an eyelid.

tonight: packing again for the isle of wight.

the may bank holiday weekend,

and it's still so cold it just doesn't feel like it.

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all i could think about all day

was climbing back into bed.

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the pots are breeding !

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if you are bored one can always mess up a nice shiny train into a scrapyard locomotive ....

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the garden seems to be taking care of itself in this wet weather with things bursting into life ..... trouble is some of my pots are more like ponds ......

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the boys hard at work in the kitchen.

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as soon as the sun was out, i picked some flowers from the garden.

loving the spring colours!