Ravendale House

I thought I’d take this opportunity to have a look back at the year. In a nutshell, I think it would be fair to say it’s a year I wouldn’t want to repeat again in a hurry.

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They say that history often repeats itself, and this is a story to demonstrate that on this occasion, ‘they’ are right.

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Asbestos, “an extremely dangerous, highly heat-resistant, fibrous silicate mineral that can be woven into fabrics, and is used in brake linings and in fire-resistant and insulating materials“. Not the kind of thing I expected to be writing about in a gardening blog.

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When we lived at Ravendale House and it said on the news that the number of sparrows in the UK was falling, we used to laugh and say, “no it’s not, it’s just that they’re all living in our garden”.

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