Ravendale House

Well, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, “Every day’s a school day”. On this occasion our ‘life’ lesson concerned plumbing. Not my favourite subject but here goes.

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We started this year with a hosepipe ban, and finished it by breaking records for rainfall. The wettest year in England since records began in 1910, and the second wettest in the UK as a whole. You couldn’t make it up.

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I’m not a Xmas person anymore. Having no children and my only family living 400 miles away (Peter doesn’t bother with his family at all) Xmas is just a nuisance.

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Remember the 9 chamber pots? Well now I can reveal the end of the story.

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So there I was yesterday morning in the little market town of Brigg, posting my Xmas cards to Canada. As I was walking back to my car I followed a young man with a dog. I don’t know what breed it was, a sort of chunky poodle, with a white curly coat, definitely not a man’s dog.

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Well, it’s now exactly 6 weeks since the conservatory was pulled down and what a 6 weeks it has been.

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I’ve just spent 8 days looking after my neighbours ducks and hens whilst they were away on holiday.

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You might be wondering why news of the new patio has dried up over recent days, after all it was all going so well, too well in fact.

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