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Like a rat up a drainpipe

The fresh enmoorings, for a day or three, while the Met Office makes some of the urgent adjustments to its…

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Keep flat. Serving suggestion 400g.

At last – a cakerista who gets the instructions correct for Spendmas. [See lower left-hand corner of lead image.] I…

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Meerkat Moorings and a Cheery Wave

I still have a magnificent quarter-mile or so of open view from my bow, but – yep – rather akin…

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Water & Diesel & Gazunders & Comestibles

My childhood was a bit “boom and bust” in terms of the family fortunes. This is probably why I have…

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Fuel Boat BARGUS in Lock-Down

There’s a new (old) fuel-boat in town. Halsall is patrolling fresh waters, and nb BARGUS (also from Four Counties Fuels)…

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Winter Drawers On

Humorous Protagonist A: ‘I’m not going to answer the door in my longjohns.’ Humorous Protagonist B: ‘I didn’t know that…

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The Carp are having a Diem

Somewhere under there… Filthy beasts. Sunday eh? We’ve been promised some brightth today by the Metabiological Office, even some ……

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Gloom and Geese for International Men’s Day

When the morning sky looks like this (taken from the Cardinal’s side-hatch) how the hecky heck is anyone supposed to…

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Hunkering and Bunkering

This probably constitutes El Panic Buying, but it’s not. I didn’t realise that the Fuel Boat, nb BARGUS, would be…

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Ginger Season

a.k.a. ‘The Mighty Drear’. Or possibly auburn season. Is it open season on Auburn Hepburns? Do people still use the…

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Doing the ironying

I shall be attending a small Remembrance Event this morning, as I have always done whenever it has been possible,…

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Goose Stepping Backwards For Christmas

Or The Delights of a Deafening Avian Cacophany going on for hours from before first light. There’s a lonesome goose…

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