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Month: May 2018

My Week In Pictures – How To Write (and Read)

May 27, 2018

‘If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced’ … More My Week In Pictures – How To Write (and Read)

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Sorry For What I’m About To Say….

May 24, 2018

I’m going to whisper four little letters very quietly and try not to cry when I do. GDPR I’m sorry, I really sorry.  I know you’re banging your head off the screen as one more person spams you with an email saying I won’t be spamming you. Are you awash with GDPR Data Protection emails … More Sorry For What I’m About To Say….

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My Week In Pictures – Tears Of Joy and Sadness

May 20, 2018

I don’t plan to spam you with Royal Wedding talk for too long, but I do feel I should disclose that I have watched it four times already and cried more.  … More My Week In Pictures – Tears Of Joy and Sadness

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Happy Valley – Orkney’s Secret Treasure

May 18, 2018

When Orkney Beef makes spontaneous romantic gestures it instantly makes me suspicious.  Is he having an affair?  but no.  Then I remember how he always maintains one nagging  woman is plenty so must be he’s not.

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My Week In Pictures – Life in the fast lane

May 13, 2018

If anyone is thinking of moving to Orkney for a quiet life take note, it doesn’t work.  I left a very hectic life in Cambridge and traded it all in for a really hectic life in Orkney.  I’m sometimes so busy I wonder if I really will meet myself coming back the other way one … More My Week In Pictures – Life in the fast lane

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My Week In Pictures- May days and morning dew.

May 6, 2018

What an absolute corker of a day to wake up to on Monday morning. I was out the house by 6.30am and it was one of those beautiful hazy days where you know it’s going to turn out beautiful. I was at work all day so missed the best of it but I certainly think … More My Week In Pictures- May days and morning dew.

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