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Travels in India, 2020 - Glorious Goa
After ten days of travelling around and immersing ourselves in the incredible beauty of Rajasthan, we headed to India's west coast, to bask in Goa's 32°C heat.In the twenty years we've been visiting...
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Travels In India, 2020 - Mad About Mumbai Part 1
Want to talk about social distancing, stockpiling food and travel restrictions? Me, neither. Let's crack on with the travelogue instead.How did we spend Valentine's Day this year? We flew to Mumbai and...
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Travels in India, 2010 - The Grand Finale - Mad about Mumbai Part 2
Although we were only in Mumbai for three days, I thought I'd divide our trip over two blog posts. Anything to escape the weird reality we'd currently living in.This is the Gateway to India, built in...
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The Distancing Diaries (Part One of Many!)
Yesterday was our first day on lockdown, not that we're ill but after a week of supporting our local charity shops, buying a few essentials and stocking up on fresh fruit and veg from off the market we...
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The Distancing Diaries - Continued
Stonecroft in the sunshine. I suppose there are worse places to be confined to especially on a glorious day like today.So what have I been filling my time during day 3 and 4 of isolation? Yesterday,...
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The Distancing Diaries - Days Five & Six
The weather's been so beautiful over the last couple of days it's hard to believe that the world is in crisis outside the confines of our garden. Here in the UK, with the exception of key workers,...
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Life on Lock Down - Day 7 and 8
After my usual start to the day, a Wii Fit session & fruit & yoghurt for breakfast, we got dressed and left the house - the first time in a week - as we'd run out of milk. The plan was to drive...
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Life In Lockdown, Day 9 and 10
Yesterday, Jon woke up to Frank standing on his chest, nose pressed to his, so he took it as a cue to get up, let him & Stephen out and bring me a mug of tea in bed and we read till 8.15. I put the...
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Life in Lockdown - Day 11 & 12
On Monday we combined our allowed exercise and food shopping outing by walking to our nearest shop for a few essentials. Luckily for us, Johal's is a supermarket as opposed to your average corner shop...
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Love In The Time Of Corona - Day 13 & 14
Yesterday was our Never-Had-A-Wedding-Anniversary, a day marking 28 years of unmarried bliss.Love's young dream, eh?In previous years we've spent our anniversary on the beach in Goa or wandered around...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 15 and 16
Friday marked the start of our third week of social distancing. It started off in the usual fashion with my Wii Fit session but after breakfast, it went downhill fast. My sewing project went tits up,...
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Splendid Isolation - Day 16 and 17
Yesterday, I awoke bright and early. I made tea and brought it back to bed where we languished with the cats & read until 8.30am. When we got up I returned the plants I'd left soaking in the bath...
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Further Isolation Tales - Day 18 and 19
Over our fruit & yoghurt, I mentioned to Jon that at some point we'd need to turn the rug around in the spare room as it was getting rather threadbare and that the bed in there was wonky so he got...
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Home Alone - Day 20 & 21
When I made this Mr Man dress last week, whilst dressed in thermal leggings and long sleeves, I'd never in a million years expected to be wearing it in the glorious sunshine eight days later!Day 20 of...
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Alone In My Home - Day 22 & 23
Saturday - and twenty-two days since Stonecroft went into lockdown - was another glorious Spring day. I was up before 6am and by the time I'd brought us mugs of tea back to bed I'd already given all...
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From A Distance - Day 24 & 25
Yesterday started with Wii Fit, a blog catch-up and fruit & yoghurt for breakfast. In a previous life, we'd have spent Easter Monday trawling the car boot sales of rural Staffordshire but, instead,...
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Life in Lockdown - Day 26 & 27
It didn't take us long to fill that empty space, did it?Lockdown or not, my daily beauty routine is the same as any normal day. I wash my face with Himalaya soap (India's leading beauty brand, I stock...
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Baby, I'm Home, I'm Home, I'm Home - Day 28 & 29
A month in lockdown! How did that happen? After having the rug pulled out from under our feet, having all our plans cancelled and our business put on hold, we've reinvented ourselves. The house is...
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The Distancing Diaries - Day 30 & 31
Sunday (day 30) started - as usual - with tea in bed, where we read and lounged with the cats until 8.30 when Jon went downstairs to start breakfast and I stripped and changed the bed. After we'd eaten...
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Staying Home - Day 32 & 33
Tuesday marked our 32nd day of social isolating. After the usual Wii Fit, fruit & yoghurt breakfast and a blog catch-up, I watered the pots in the sunshine, barefoot as always.It was a gloriously...
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