Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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A Weekend With Cash
We all had a lovely weekend in the beautiful sunny weather. I principally spent the weekend with cashman, who only popped round to measure up the kitchen!! We took Mylo for a walk on Saturday afternoon and went via the back of Newland Park over the edge of Maple Cross over the M25. What a…
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Museum of London
Rebecca and Jamie have started really well at school – Jamie is now well into his first term in Reception. Rebecca who is notoriously dificult to arouse the attention of and keep interested but she has been particularly interested in a study of the Fire of London. read more
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Gardening and Wildlife
What a fabulous bank holiday weekend we’ve just had, I even managed to do a few things I meant to do. Saturday was a bit of a wash out but we did chill out – I even went for a run – and then went out for a swift pint or two with an old…
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Rebecca’s First Tooth Falls Out
Crickey, is r that old already – how scarey. Today, during a roast pork dinner, her first tooth fell out. I believe the tooth fairy has already visited – but unfortunately I must have missed them. The tooth that fell out already has the new tooth half grown behind it… read more
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Easter in Eastbourne
I was limping towards Easter after working all hours and generally being flat out with life, so it was great to pop down to Eastbourne and re-charge the batteries over the weekend. We had a lovely time catching up with all the Watts family – Rebecca and Jamie get on so well with their cousins…
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Spring Weather
At last, the freezing cold winter seems to be passing, and spring is springing. A beautiful day on Sunday, so Rebecca decided that we were having a picnic outside – which was an excellent idea – I promise I wasn’t as grumpy as I look in the photo. read more
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Is this a Wren?
Is this a Wren on my bird table? There was a pair of them. Had plenty of birds on the bird table recently, great tits, blue tits, robins, blackbirds and many more.
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Gardening and more
I’ve been even more busy than normal with work, family and hockey and more besides. I’m still just about playing hockey each weekend, I have a groin problem though which is gradually getting worse each week – just about manageable on the Saturday then i cannot get out of bed or cough on Sunday until…
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Very enjoyable weekend
What a rather splendid weekend. Managed to polish off a load of work on Friday night, then had a lovely time with R & J on Saturday morning – we built some robots – which we’d been reading Harry and the Dinosaurs build – so that was rather pleasing. The 1’s were short so I…
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Christmas 2009
We had a splendid Christmas with the Watts family Eastbourne popping up, all told 9 of us sitting round the dinner table for lunch. For the second year in a row we managed to deliver dinner to the table like clockwork – a stroke of genius by Sarah’s preparations as usual. read more
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