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a very lazy day today, not doing a lot, but time at least to unwind after a busy week

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my worst nightmare in trafalgar square.

today was one of those days where right from the very beginning,

things start to run away from you and you spend the rest of the day trying to catch up.

i went for a walk on my own this evening;

it was completely peaceful and calm,

and hardly a soul around.

the perfect antidote ...

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no, not a scene from a primary school,

but from 'learning at work' week.

we spent a fun lunch hour getting covered in poster paint.

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now the white wild roses are coming out in their hundreds just as the others are fading ......

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thursday evening ..... after much soul searching i turned on the central heating trying to forget it was mid-June ....... hurry up summer

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home.

it was still light when i walked back at 9.45pm (after tapas and team-building).

what an amazing feeling.

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does anyone know where i can buy a bag of 's's?

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after yet another dull start suddenly, this afternoon, summer seemed to have arrived

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calamity Tuesday and the boiler system has packed up at home....... i must live out of a kettle until the heating engineer comes tomorrow :0(

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monday ....... if it had rained any more i would have built a noah's ark on top of the catle hill .....

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the latest pair of baby stovler ...

i can churn a couple of these out in two evenings now.

the latest isle of wight baby arrived last week.

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my favourite local walk, near newark priory.

lunch at the pub by the river in the rain.

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spent the day striding across petworth park,

and then ogling the turners inside the house.

everything was so green...

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went to a charity do at Barton Manor today - a little rain but not enough to spoil a walk around the gardens and watch the carp go wild for the fish food that the children were throwing into the lake

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saturday ...... is it the head of a modernist bird sculptue or a crane?

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friday ..... long awaited after a busy week .... an odd day of gales mixed with sunshine

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ahhhh, that friday feeling.

you just can't beat it.

this weekend:

craftiness,

historic houses,

replanting seedlings,

wine.

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today was a long, slow day.

even a bit of retail therapy at lunch time didn't really ease the boredom.

some days, you just do not want to be at work.

this evening, 

we ate fajitas and tried to pretend it was summer.

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i just managed to grab a bit of time after work when the rain had stopped and the sun came out to take a quick snap on newport quay - here's a nice old tub of a boat

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unfortunately this is horribly over-exposed,

but these rhododendron flowers reminded me 

of stranded starfish on the pavement.

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this pretty much summed up yesterday.

rain, rain, rain.

still, we watched the diamond jubilee celebrations

and then went on a nice walk to feed the ducks in the park.

(the ducks were delighted.)

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a long day with having to deal with a lot of VIPs at the end of it ....... good to finally get home and see the progress of my well watered garden .....

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the view from the island of hovedoya

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a day of museums:

the zoological;

the geological;

the folk museum,

and the stunning viking ship museum, where this was taken.

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inside the opera house, oslo

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the cristiania torv, oslo

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this morning went to the antiques fair at Calbourne village - here is an oddball item - a Victorian child's goat cart - the family dog probably had to pull the kid [unintended pun] around when the goat was off sick!

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a holiday weekend means the scooter clubs converge on the IW ...... 100s go buzzing past my front door heading for Ryde sea front

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a brief trip to ryde today via wootton creek to collect a large collection of old iw photos assembled by an hungarian count!

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friday was a busy catching up day spent mainly at home ....... despite the lack of rain and the efforts of snails the garden is beginning to blossom