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Stepping out
I’m determined to up my steps each day so I hit the magic 10,000, a figure dreamed up by a marketing campaign but not a bad one to aim for. It’s the equivalent of 3.9 to 4.9 miles, depending on your stride length, speed and height. I walk a couple of miles every day with…
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The first time ever I saw your face
Did you see that news story about scientists claiming to have discovered the ‘real’ face of Anne Boleyn? Now that would be some feat, because her real face would have been on the head cut off by a French swordsman in 1536 at the behest of the corrupt court sycophants surrounding Henry VIII. She was…
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In a galaxy far, far away…
We were sitting there, out in a French garden last Friday, listening to the sound of a midwife toad (look them up, they’re incredible). (The noise they make is more like a scops owl, but it doesn’t show up on the Merlin bird app on my phone for the obvious reason that a toad is…
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May Day felicitations
You must wake and call me early, call me early mother dear;To-morrow’ll be the the happiest time of all the glad new-year,Of all the glad new-year, mother, the maddest, merriest day;For I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother I’m to be Queen o’ the May. The opening words of The May Queen by Alfred,…
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April book reviews
Three novels this month, one of which I actually bought myself rather than relying on my usual free NetGalley source. A mixed bag in subject matter and tone but all excellent. I’ve enjoyed these books very much. Some taut thrillers to look forward to next month, along with some highfalutin literary offerings, among them There…
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Maddie Grigg 