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Dog Reacting to Thunderstorm
They say animals can detect thunderstorms coming. Our dog was acting a bit strange for a while, sniffing the walls outside, running to look out the window inside – as if he was expecting something. I love watching how he reacts to these sorts of things and I’m hoping you will too! Watch the video…
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5 Pieces of Advice That Could Enhance Your Life!
You know the old saying ‘hindsight is 20/20’? Well I was thinking of all the life lessons I’ve learned and how much easier life might have been if I’d been given certain pieces of advice when I was younger – and listened to it! Here are my top 5 pieces of advice I wish I’d…
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Tree Orchestra
Background: When I was a student many many years ago, I was in the student accommodation of the town hospital. It was a dark night and the weather wasn’t great. As I looked out of my window, watching the trees outside the following short poem sprang to mind. This is one I’ve turned into what…
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Announcing Poetry Corner
Wait! Hear me out and don’t let the word put you off – give it a try, you might surprise yourself. As well as the usual sorts of articles I’ve been posting here, I’ve decided to have a small patch on the blog just for poetry of some sorts. Don’t panic – I’m not talking…
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Dogs Love Presents – Fact!!
If you doubt me at all wait till you see this little fella… Ok, picture the scene….. It’s Christmas and there are presents aplenty (well almost, times are hard you know!). Anyway, in comes ‘the dog’, actually in this case it’s ‘our dog’ – our lurcher who is called Scooby. I will do a post…
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Kale Salad…that actually tastes delicious – honest.
If you think you “don’t like kale” – I’m here to change your mind! I recently went up to the allotment and during the usual tidying and preparing for the season, I noticed my kale plants were looking pretty good for the time of year. So naturally I brought home armfuls of the stuff. Then…
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Slicing a home-made loaf of bread?
This method is a game changer!! If you bake your own bread, you’ll know what its like trying to slice the thing and not succeeding in getting lovely uniform slices. I have an easier way I’d like to show you so that you can achieve just that. My method makes your bread easier to slice…
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Nettle Soup
Nettle Soup: The perfectly healthy Spring-time pick-me-up What you need: Foraged nettle tops – about 2 gloved handfuls should be enough 1 onion 1 clove garlic Couple of potatoes – peeled and chopped Chunk of butter Vegetable stock What to do: You can watch the video I made on Youtube about how to make this…
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I Need a Bigger Plate
(Workloads and expectations) You know that expression “I’ve got enough on my plate”? Well, I’ve realised my problem – I just need a bigger plate. Everybody is busy aren’t they? If you want to test that theory, just suggest to someone you know, some new ‘thing’ they should try/read/visit and they’ll tell you they’d love…
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For Robert Burns
An Ode tae my Kefir grains… For Burns Day this year, I put a short video on Youtube of me saying the following wee ditty I wrote in honour of my kefir grains. You can find the video here: https://youtube.com/shorts/qRP4dmnrMxs?feature=share The written version: Ma braw wee beasties oan ma kitchen counter, Fu’ o a’ the…
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Teaching a dog to ‘speak’
Its harder than it looks!! In my previous post, I made reference to our dog, Scooby. He is an adorable lurcher (great hunter) and we’ve been working on getting him to speak on command….hope you like the results!! https://youtu.be/Rx3trjT4uts
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