Ravendale House

I think I’m turning into a grumpy old woman, Peter says I’ve been both grumpy and old for years! Today I went to the dentist.

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Here we go again, the clocks have gone back and I’m still operating under British Summer Time. I think we’ve been here before.

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Yesterday we tackled one of our least favourite jobs, trimming the ivy that grows up the front of the house. (The ‘home page’ photo is old, the ivy is now passed the bedroom windows.) Thankfully it only needs doing once a year.

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Friday morning dawned bright and sunny, much as Thursday had done. Sadly this time my mood didn’t match and I had an uneasy feeling of foreboding.

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Monday 18th October started like any other day. The footstools were in the hall and in my face, but life goes on.

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Do you believe that an inanimate object can be jinxed, to the extent that it turns a normally sensible and rational person into a jibbering wreck, casting it’s dark shadow over their everyday life?  Well I do.

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Today I’ve had a lovely day out with my gardening chum, Sylvia. We went to Scawby Walled Garden a small, relatively unknown jewel in the crown of North Lincolnshire.

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In the bottom corner of our field we have an old tree, it’s actually planted in next doors field, but it feels like ours. The reason for this is that it is gradually falling down and has chosen to do it in our direction.

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More nice weather and more jobs done, one of which was to give Billy the shed a coat of paint coming up to his second birthday.

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We’ve just had a Bank Holiday weekend and as usual the weather was grim. Cold, wet and very windy.

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