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The Distancing Diaries - 17th & 18th June, 2021
It had rained overnight and Thursday morning was grey, chilly and overcast. I picked a few strawberries on my meanderings around the garden, checked into my Wii Fit and caught up with Blogland. After...
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The Distancing Diaries - 19th & 20th June, 2021
 Jon made tea on Saturday morning, brought it back to bed where we lay and read until 8am when the lads demanded our attention. Leaving Jon to sort out breakfast, I stripped & changed the bed sheet...
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The Distancing Diaries - 21st June & 22nd June, 2021
 It felt more like March when I went for my early morning garden wander on Monday and was soon back indoors, clutching a handful of freshly picked strawberries. I caught up with Blogland and was...
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The Distancing Diaries - 23rd & 24th June, 2021
 Wednesday got off to a glorious start and it was already warm when I got up and wandered around the garden. After my Wii Fit session, we had breakfast, Jon made sandwiches and we jumped into Gilbert...
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The Distancing Diaries - 25th, 26th & 27th June, 2021
It had rained heavily throughout the night and Friday morning was soggy and grey with a distinct nip in the air. I booked next weeks' National Trust trip, did my Wii Fit workout and wrapped my eBay...
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The Distancing Diaries - 28th & 29th June, 2021
 I awoke on Monday to rain, grey skies and gloom, in short, a typical British Summer's day. I braved the wet to gather a few strawberries, did my WII Fit workout and put away the previous day's...
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The Distancing Diaries - 30th June & 1st July, 2021
On Wednesday, still in a state of euphoria after England's magnificent win the previous evening, I did my Wii Fit workout, had a wander around the garden and swept the downstairs rugs before Jon joined...
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The Distancing Diaries - 2nd & 3rd July, 2021
 On Friday morning, after my last Wii Fit workout of the week, I booked next week's National Trust trip, wrapped my eBay parcels and caught up with Blogland. We'd run out of fruit and had a couple of...
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The Distancing Diaries - 4th & 5th July, 2021
 It's coming home, it's coming home, football's coming home...I woke up still singing it on Sunday after Saturday evening's magnificent game. Although we'd not gone mad with the drinking it was 8.15am...
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The Distancing Diaries - 6th & 7th July, 2021
 On Tuesday morning after a soggy wander around the garden foraging for redcurrants and strawberries, I did my Wii Fit workout and swept the downstairs rugs. With a wet and dismal day forecast, Jon...
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The Distancing Diaries - 8th & 9th July, 2021
On Thursday morning I woke up with a clear head, despite the excitement of England beating Denmark the previous evening and getting through to the finals of Euro 2020, the furthest we've got in an...
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The Distancing Diaries - 10th & 11th July, 2021
 Saturday started in the usual fashion with Jon getting up first, making tea and bringing it back to bed where we lay and read for a while. After he went downstairs I stripped and changed the bed, fed...
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The Distancing Diaries - 12th & 13th July, 2021
Despite the Indian feast, late bedtime and skinful of ale I'd downed the previous evening, I was up at 6am on Monday morning. Although disappointed that England hadn't won the Euro 2020 final I wasn't...
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The Distancing Diaries - 14th & 15th July, 2021
On Wednesday, after my Wii Fit workout, I wrapped my overnight sales, photographed and listed a few things on eBay and put on a load of washing which Jon pegged out once he was up. After breakfast, we...
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The Last Ever Distancing Diaries - 16th, 17th & 18th July, 2021
We're having a heatwave, a tropical heatwave! On Friday I was out watering the pot plants at the crack of dawn before doing my last Wii Fit Workout of the week and wrapping my eBay parcels. I washed my...
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Burn Baby Burn - Three Days of Summer
Hello! Thank you so much for the lovely comments on my last Distancing Diaries. I'm not finishing blogging, it's been a part of my life since 2009, it's only the title of my posts that have changed now...
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The Constant Gardener
Boo! The glorious heatwave has left us and it's back to the more average 21°C. It's not all bad though, the violent thunderstorms & torrential rain we'd been expecting didn't get as far as the...
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48 Hours of Me - Books, Museums & Wonky Carrots
 I only stopped my Distancing Diary posts a week ago and I've already forgotten what day it is, I was convinced it was Tuesday until Jon pointed out my error. Publishing a blog post every couple of...
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To The Manor Born - Revisiting Packwood House
 Our plans to visit a different National Trust property in another county yesterday had to be shelved after a serious accident closed the motorway. Instead, we resorted to Plan B, revisiting one of our...
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The Last Days of Disco (and other outfits)
Hooray! Lynn's Auntie Gladys's sunflowers are blooming and aren't they magnificent? Jon's six feet tall so they're not only gorgeous but they're whoppers. Our passers-by love them, too. A few have...
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