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Isn't It Drafty In Here?!
It was while dragging a draft post about books into 2021 and getting it fit to be published, that I noticed that there were 1300 posts on this blog. But, upon closer inspection, 16 of them were...
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"Until you stalk and overrun, you can't devour anyone"*
Thanks to Mago's unintentionalprodding, I've come up with a list of books I've read over the last year or two. Well, most of them, anyway. And I've just discovered that the last time I did a proper...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Mud Pies
What with it being a remarkably nice day today, I decided to go out for a longer walk than usual (especially as the forecast for the coming week is cold and icy). This walk turned out to be a LOT...
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Blogorati Stars: 'Petra
Almost a year on since the last Blogorati Star's post, may I introduce our next Star:'Petra I don't know how I missed it, but Petra was in the same batch of approved star names as Mago back in...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Snowballs
Like much of the UK (except Devon, it seems), Hexenhäusli Device and its environs has become encumbered with a blanket of snow - the most we've had since the end of Feb/beginning of March 2018....
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Bracing Blue Skies
I wasn't going to post more snow photos because I'm sure those of us with snow are sick of it, and for those without it's just rubbing your noses in it. However, I'm still working on the post which...
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Breaking: Death on the Embankment!
This just in: Killing and carnage in the immediate vicinity of Hexenhäusli Device!Read more »
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Blogorati Stars: Who's Next?
This is the post I was working on before yesterday's walk in the snow photos (and that tit killing) usurped it. Some of the comments from the last Blogorati Stars post (featuring 'Petra) got me...
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Of Reticulata and Rotas
If it's good enough for Dinah and Ms Scarlet, it's good enough for me! Yes, I'm back from an unintended mini-break from the blog. Although, I haven't got much to say for myselves so, instead, I...
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Navigating in Not-Wellies
I'm sure Ms Scarlet is tutting and rolling her eyes at my countryside traversing footwear.... Despite the above - and a couple more muddy scenes further down - I managed to navigate in my Not-Wellies...
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Misty Mysteries
WARNING: This post may contain poo! As the second day of the weekend also turned out sunny (but not as balmy as yesterday), I had no choice but to go outside again. But this time down to the beach...
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The Calamities of the Carmine Quill
A silent Ms Scarlet held up the intertitle card with a self-satisfied grin. Having flirted with the idea of becoming entirely text based and giving up speech forever, she had gone out on a few dates...
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CCQ: A Hair Raising Affair
Why are we doing intertitle cards again?I think The Host is quite pleased with how they came out and wants to make the most of them.Very well. Carry on. "Ah. Mr Device." "Glurk!" IDV stopped in his...
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CCQ: Aidan Turner in the Altogether with a Towel
"Wow! You really know how to handle such a big machine" IDV shamelessly innuendoed at Asriel as the driver swung the limo into Mitzi's driveway and brought it to a controlled stop outside the front...
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CCQ: An Enterprising Ending (at last)
"You silly sods!" Hound was quite cross. "Now look what you've done." "What happened? How did we get here?" a bewildered Mago asked. "Someone - or possibly sometwo - were thinking of Star Trek when...
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Gulls & Groynes Against Golden Glamour
The sunlight bouncing off the window frames of this building on the High Street looked far more dramatic and golden in real life. Bah! Now that the Calamities are over with (for now, anyway), and the...
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Wonderful Electric
Right. That's the first quarter of the year done. To aid in the preparation of the end-of-year review/Coven Awards, I thought I'd continue on from January's book post and Happy with a round up of...
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Infomaniac Garden Photos Event 2021
I note from the comments in the previous post that a few of you have been watching Gardener's World, which reminded me: We need to organise who's going to host the 2021 I N F O M A N I A C Garden...
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Speaking of gardening...
... here's how mine is coming along: Above, the oft neglected front of Hexenhäusli Device looking quite colourful, for a change. I put the daff bulbs in back in the autumn, and the skimmias that went...
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