Fleur

@Fleura (34444)

United Kingdom

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An interesting workshop

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 31 Mar

I promised to tell you about last week’s activities. I was hired as a steward at a workshop event which involved making clay vessels by hand using various techniques such as coiling, slab building or making thumb pots, with the...

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She has the right idea!

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 29 Mar

A few days ago my partner was saying that his jeans needed mending. He put his phone in his pocket – or thought he did – and then as he walked out of a shop his phone appeared out of the bottom of his trouser leg, much to the...

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Warmer today!

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 27 Mar

Today was wetter but less windy. After my last experience I had added an extra pair of nylon tights under my thermal tights and trousers, and swapped my T-shirt and shirt for a long-sleeved thermal top and a fleece jumper, so...

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I was very cold!

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 25 Mar

I got very cold today. Do you know the kind of day when it doesn’t seem all that bad at first, just a bit chilly, but then because you are in it for a long time and not moving about too much you just get colder and colder? I have...

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Wedding card

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 24 Mar

My friends are getting married today. Not a big life-changing moment as they have been together a long time and got engaged 25 years ago, shortly after I got to know them. It’s just a quiet ceremony with them and two witnesses, of...

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What do you call toys like this?

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 17 Mar

Following up on my last post, I just wondered what you call this kind of toy? I would call it a cuddly toy, and in this case specifically, a teddy bear. Teddy bears were first named in honour of Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt, who...

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A well-loved gift

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 17 Mar

When Big One was little, she was given a whole lot of cuddly toys. And these included a big pink bear from our neighbour (who had obviously won it at a funfair and didn’t know what to do with it!) as well as the big bear that...

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I actually sold something!

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 16 Mar

Both the girls have been having a clear-out and reorganisation of their bedrooms, and consequently I have a heap of things around me here in my workspace waiting for me to donate them to a charity shop or give them away on Freegle...

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DIY Japanese sweets

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 16 Mar

Little One has a school-friend with family in Japan, and consequently she visits at least once a year. And last time she brought back a small packet of some sort of Japanese sweet for Little One. Little One was touched of course,...

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Underappreciated fruit

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 13 Mar

Sometimes it seems that ‘we’, in this country, are turning away from our local produce and going for more exotic things. For example in the supermarket you can buy bananas, papayas, pineapples, mangoes, kiwis, even dragonfruit,...

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I’m so glad I’m not coeliac!

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 13 Mar

As I’ve mentioned before our lodger is coeliac so if we cook for her we have to be very careful to avoid anything containing gluten. I’ve had quite a lot of success making all sorts of gluten-free things which have worked out...

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Night visitor

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 12 Mar

We had friends to stay at the weekend and they brought with them a motion-activated night-vision camera. They set it up opposite what is obviously a well-trodden gap in the fence between us and our next-door-neighbours, and were...

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My weight-bearing exercise for today

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 5 Mar

Our local amateur dramatics group has a lot of props and other bits and pieces stored in a building belonging to the local pub, but now they want their space back to keep their garden furniture. So the group have bought a storage...

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Everyday robots

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 4 Mar

It’s funny how the word ‘robot’ still seems somehow futuristic and like something from science fiction – and yet they are becoming more and more common and infiltrating everyday life, almost without us noticing. Of course...

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The bees are waking up!

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 4 Mar

It’s definitely spring, for the past few days I’ve been seeing bumblebees out and about and even a butterfly or two. I had a surprise this morning when I went to get my wash-bag from the bathroom and found this big queen bumblebee...

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Have you tried Hagelslag?

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 2 Mar

My partner’s work colleague just returned from a trip to the Netherlands and he brought some of these for everyone. We had never heard of them before but apparently they are a big thing there; practically everyone loves them on...

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Trying out some Czech cookery

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 1 Mar

My friend’s partner is Czech, and when I was at their house recently we were sorting a few things and I started leafing through a book of Czech and Slovenian cookery. There were some interesting things in there and she said she...

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Pigeons don't like him!

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 27 Feb

Our Italian lodger seems to inspire heinous acts by the local pigeons, for some unknown reason. He’s quite a fastidious sort of person so maybe they just delight in winding him up, who knows. Anyway one day I was driving him and...

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A small victory!

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 27 Feb

We’ve had all sorts of car-related problems but yesterday we had a new one. I got in the car for a short trip and found a bird had pooped on the windscreen (I suspect a pigeon – more about that later). So of course I just tapped...

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It’s not just time-wasting!

Fleur @Fleura (34444) • United Kingdom 27 Feb

Ever since I started on this garden birds survey for the British Trust for Ornithology (which was three years ago this week!) I have been obsessively glancing out of the window every few minutes, jumping up with the binoculars if...

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