Ravendale House

The bungalow we are in the process of buying was built in 1933. So while we’re waiting for the legal stuff to happen, I thought it might be quite fun to find out what was going on in the world the year it was built.

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‘Well, hush my mouth’, I found myself saying, as I read the e mail estimate from the builder. After what I said previously about self-doubt, here it was manifesting itself before my very eyes.

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You know when you make a decision to do something and just when it looks like things are working out as you planned you become overwhelmed by self-doubt? Are you doing the right thing? Could you do it different or better?

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Do you remember when there were only 2 TV channels? Now there are more than you can shake a stick at, and most of them show end-to-end rubbish. Thank goodness therefore for ‘Coronation Street’, the world’s longest-running TV soap opera, which started life way back in 1960 and is still going strong.

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Isn’t it funny what strange things just pop into your head from time to time for no apparent reason? I often find myself getting unexpected flashbacks to places we have been, and yesterday I remembered something that happened over 20 years ago, which I haven’t thought about in years.

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It’s always good to start the year with a good news story, so here’s a small one to get things going.

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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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