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Continue reading →: A bumper crop of apples
We have two apple trees at each corner at the end of our garden. The one on the left was packed with apples this year, probably because of the warmer than average temperatures. The tree on the right is taller and more exposed. It’s apples wwre less plentiful, but much…
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Continue reading →: Antipodean rugby
I got up at six o’clock this morning to watch the second game in the Bledisloe Cup series between Australia and New Zealand. The All Blacks are a tough team to beat and they proved their worth in the first half by running in 7 tries against the Wallabies 3.…
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Continue reading →: Where does the time go?
I am a regular at La Bottega, a classy Italian restaurant on the Lisburn Road in Belfast. I enjoy nothing more than sitting at the bar drinking my espresso and chatting with the other caffeine fans. Today, I have sat on the same barstool since about midday for two and…
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Continue reading →: Poetry classes
I will be attending eight weekly poetry classes from today. Stephanie Conn’s classes are described as More Pockets of Joy, but I’m not going to hold that against her. Two hours from 2pm to 4pm every Tuesday until December 1st…for roughly £10 per class, can’t be bad. I look forward…
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Continue reading →: Mary Berry’s soup recipe
Some time ago, I bought Mary Berry’s book “Soups, Starters and Salads.” Her Spiced Autumn Soup is delicious: Using a smaller amount of stock, substituting sweet potatoes, and using only one tin of tomatoes didn’t seem to compromise the flavour. I had grated the zest of orange instead of getting…
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Continue reading →: Ulster rugby
I was at the Ulstet v Munster game yesterday evening and had that dread feeling that Ulstet were going to throw it all away in the first half. Munster brought the physicality and clinical passing moves that got them a bonus point and three tries by half time. 5-26 seemed…
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Continue reading →: On course
As winter approaches my better half and I are looking for an interesting part-time course to study. We have left it a bit late. Most autumn courses started at the beginning of September. The BBC Maestro courses offer cooking classes by chefs like Marco Pierre White. Five and a half…
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Continue reading →: Bognor
I am staying in a luxurious airbnb on the Esplanade at Bognor-Regis for a few days. Bognor is a strange seaside town with echos of its regal past in the architecture. The local population seems to be a mixture of elderly types in mobility scooters dominating the pavements and down…
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Continue reading →: Geographical stats
Feedback is hard to come by, particularly if you are writing a blog that people can chance upon randomly. Jetpack provides data on the readership of this blog by country. I am intrigued to see that there are one or two people in China who take the trouble to read…
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Continue reading →: The odour of sanctity
Theological teachings can often be baffling. Sainthood embraces all kinds of devotion and rituals, not least the acts of intercession that can be requested by praying to the relevant saint. I came across ‘the odour of sanctity’ in a novel by Niamh Ni Mhaoilcoin Ordinary Saints. The general idea is…
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