Visiting Canterbury, Whitstable and Rochester

We are now in the middle of Philosopher’s Birthday Festival season. All this for a man who didn’t want a birthday…..      We reached Canterbury at lunchtime on a hot sunny day, but amazingly, managed…

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Sunny Winchelsea Gardens, staircase retrofitting, making a garden water feature

Philosopher has a big birthday coming up on Monday. He is not at all keen on the idea so I won’t go on about it, but we’ve got a busy time coming up. This is…

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WI Centenary AGM – What it's like to meet the Queen

It was the WI Centenary AGM at the Albert Hall.  I had to go and collect the Lady Denman Cup, which I won last year for writing a poem, ‘What my WI means to me’.…

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Winchelsea Heronry and other busy birds

Last year we went for a sunny walk and a picnic around Winchelsea and along the Royal Military Canal. During our walk we spotted a heronry in the trees. As it was mid-June, it was…

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Sandgate, Hythe, car-boots and skateboarding dog.

Last weekend our old friend +Shaun Mckenna came down to stay. He is one of the script-writers on the BBC Radio Four WWI series, ‘Home Front’, which is being broadcast every day for four years…

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