Fleur

@Fleura (33685)

United Kingdom

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It’s panto time! (again)

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 12h

I’ve posted a few times on here about our preparations for this year’s pantomime, which is The Little Mermaid. Well performance time finally rolled around and everything has come together. Here’s the ‘Atlantis’ scenery in situ,...

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What do you say?

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 17h

Following on from my last post… What do you say when someone shares their bad news with you? Yesterday a friend (my co-conspirator in the props department!) told me she has breast cancer. What would you say under these...

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More bad news

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 18h

On January 1st we were told that a friend – who had recently retired and was enjoying a new phase of life sailing around Europe with his wife – had been diagnosed with leukaemia. Thankfully his treatment seems to be going well so...

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One thing leads to another

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 31 Jan

Yesterday I posted about our scheduled power outage. I looked for a picture to go with it and I chose an old picture of our garden (because there is a power line running along the boundary). And then when I looked at that picture...

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I’ll be incommunicado today

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 30 Jan

Our electricity is set to go off shortly, because the network company have scheduled work trimming trees around the power lines in our area. So I’ll be lighting the fire to keep us going with hot drinks, and wrapping the fish tank...

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It actually worked!

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 29 Jan

We seem to be going through a phase of things wearing out here. The washing machine is on its last legs, the fridge seems to be misbehaving and now the mixer blades are coming off! I think the plastic centre has crumbled due to...

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Beans with everything!

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 26 Jan

Do you like beans? One crop I seem to have consistent success with is beans, mainly climbing beans. Some years it feels like the only thing I can manage to grow! I grow runner beans (red- and white-flowered varieties), climbing...

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Feeling a bit p**ed off

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 25 Jan

I don’t usually rant about things but feeling like I need to get this off my chest, sorry! As you know I’ve been working on props and scenery for our village pantomime. Many hours of work over several months. Little One also...

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Just have to share this with you

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 22 Jan

Are there any Wallace and Gromit fans out there? The animated short film ‘The Wrong Trousers’ is such a classic; hard to believe it dates from 1993! Anyway today I found that the breakfast machine featured in the film has been...

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My latest problem

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 22 Jan

This is the problem I have to deal with now. And I admit I am a bit stumped. Basically the flush mechanism in the toilet has worn out. This is easily fixed by simply replacing the thing, and if it was a ‘normal’ free-standing...

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Net shops

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 22 Jan

Another notable feature of Hastings is these characteristic multi-storey sheds, known as net shops, a unique feature of the Old Hastings seashore. Storage sheds were necessary when nets were made of natural fibres and needed to be...

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The Winkle Club

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 21 Jan

Last week @RasmaSandra wrote about the Pearly Kings and Queens of London, a charitable organisation whose members wear suits decorated with mother-of-pearl buttons to attract attention and help collect donations for charity. This...

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Annoying habits

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 21 Jan

@Traceyjayne just mentioned people who open doors etc. and then just leave them open; very annoying. Currently we have a couple of lodgers who are just lovely people and great to have around, clean and tidy and basically no...

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Hastings fishing fleet

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 20 Jan

The old town of Hastings has been home to a fishing fleet since before the Norman conquest of 1066. Unusually, it doesn’t have a harbour (there have been various harbours built over the years but none of them lasted very long in...

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A visit to Hastings

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 20 Jan

Last weekend we visited Hastings and St Leonard’s-on-Sea, on the south-east coast of England. Hastings (as in the battle of Hastings) and St Leonard’s have basically merged into one big town with a promenade that stretches for...

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Mechanised forestry

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 19 Jan

We are close to some woods here and this winter the owners have instigated a big ‘management plan’, in other words they are chopping lots of the trees down, especially ash because of the fear of trees affected by ash dieback...

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My first attempt at AI image generation

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 17 Jan

My friend’s birthday is coming up, and I wanted a birthday card. I hadn’t really had enough time to look for something special, and all the generic cards aimed at men tend to feature things that do not interest him (cars, fishing,...

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Depressing mail today!

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 17 Jan

When the postman pushed a bundle of post through the letterbox this morning I was hopeful I might receive something interesting, maybe even a very late Xmas card from a friend or something like that. Instead I received a water...

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What can I do with redcurrants?

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 15 Jan

Like any gardener, we have some crops that do particularly well in our plot and some that don’t. Strawberries, for example, don’t grow all that well and get eaten by slugs, mice and birds. And go mouldy if the weather is wet....

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A bit of a bodge job

Fleur @Fleura (33685) • United Kingdom 13 Jan

You probably know by now I never like to throw away anything that could possibly be useful… I have this little overnight case, I think I received it as a gift when I was a teenager. Most of it is still in good condition but the...

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