England
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Halloween is coming!

We live in fear, haunted by the prospect of the imminent budget of the Orwellian-Cromwellian Socialist Crusaders- ‘Let them eat vegetables!’ Cri du coeur. 1789 Just sayin’… These days, a 6am a sleepless night is not disturbed by birds waking

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Surrey hills
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Sleepy autumn in the Surrey Hills

One minute we were chopping cucumber and strawberries for a late summer Pimms. The next it was sunflower bouquets and homemade cakes-all to quietly celebrate another birthday, another decade of perfect days slipping into sunsets and starry nights, a new

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Italy
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Tuscan Bugs

At home with wasps, bugs and the spice of life Whiney Bastard Stripey Bastard Bitey Bastard Blood sucking Bastard I now have a monumental lump on my thigh, matched only by the collection of savage bites inflicted by horse-flies. This

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