Fleur

@Fleura (36167)

United Kingdom

Joined myLot 11 years ago

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Maybe not such a silly idea after all!

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 26 Oct

A couple of days ago @AmbiePam reported going to a class on towel folding. I scoffed at this – who would have time for such a thing? And I certainly wouldn’t buy a book on the subject, if I wanted to do it I could probably look on...

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Continuing the winter-proofing!

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 24 Oct

Still working on my plan to keep the house warmer this winter, I decided I wanted some curtains in our bathroom. Ideally we would have new windows, but this is the next best thing. When we bought the house, more than ten years...

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Things to do during online meetings

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 23 Oct

Yesterday evening I had to attend an online meeting via Zoom. This is something I rarely do, thankfully, as I really hate seeing myself on screen, I always look absolutely awful; I can’t tell you how many times over the years I...

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Getting ready for winter

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 21 Oct

We seem to have come to the end of our unnaturally warm spell; now it’s miserable, grey and wet, much more normal for a British late October. When it was cold last winter I definitely thought we would benefit from a curtain over...

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Good customer service

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 16 Oct

I was looking through our file where I keep instructions that come with tools and gadgets, and I found something I had forgotten – the receipt for a new amplifier I bought from Richer Sounds in 2018. This had come with an...

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Other people Gah!

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 14 Oct

Many of you know I’m a member of our local Toad Patrol, helping toads (and other amphibians) get to and from their breeding ponds in spring without being squashed and smeared all over the road. I’ve been part of the group for ten...

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Serendipity (again)

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 14 Oct

I know I’ve written before about how things we need often turn up at just the right time. We have a short aluminium step ladder which I use in the garden, it’s OK for tying up the shorter roses and jobs like that. But for...

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Harder than I thought!

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 12 Oct

Last weekend we had a bit of a get-together with a couple of ‘Mum’ friends and their daughters (two each), so with the four of us there were ten of us altogether. Since we have so many grapes I thought pressing some to make...

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What’s the best toy ever created?

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 11 Oct

This is an easy one for me to answer – a ball. And I’m not sure that it was even really ‘created’; in the first place people used things that were already pretty much spherical such as a pig’s bladder. Recently I was at a...

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Little interactions can have such lasting effects

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 11 Oct

Reading @DaddyEvil’s comment about being turned down by a prospective date made me think how what seem like such small actions can have a long-lasting impact. Many years ago I worked in medical research in a hospital lab. One...

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What things do you use but never buy?

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 7 Oct

Duncan Bannatyne, entrepreneur and one of the ‘Dragons’ on the business reality TV show ‘Dragon’s Den’ (also known as ‘Shark Tank’ in the US I believe?) allegedly forbade the purchase of paperclips in his businesses. People...

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Reading has many advantages

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 6 Oct

Reading has many advantages, and I don’t just mean transporting you to other worlds, using your imagination, learning from other people’s experiences and expanding your vocabulary (although it obviously helps with those as...

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Inspiration from MyLot

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 4 Oct

After reading a post by @Traceyjayne a few days ago about making cheese and chive scones (using her own home-grown chives) I was tempted to try making some myself. And then some friends invited us over for brunch on Saturday...

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A real variety of work!

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 30 Sep

This week has involved quite a variety of roles! On Monday and Tuesday I was booked to work at a conference, welcoming guests, handing out name badges, pointing people in the right direction for workshops etc. But when I and...

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Festivals bring out all the characters!

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 28 Sep

We were at a music festival on a previous weekend and it certainly seemed to bring all the interesting characters out of the woodwork! Of course it could just be that there were a lot more people around and therefore a lot more...

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I can’t resist a plant in distress

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 26 Sep

A couple of days ago I was cycling home when I spotted an orchid that had been left at the base of one of the street trees that I passed. At first I thought perhaps someone had been doing some ‘guerilla gardening’ (secretly...

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The most disappointing potato harvest ever!

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 25 Sep

This year has just been the worst I ever had for growing potatoes. Normally it’s so easy, you just stick a potato in the ground and a few months later you dig up a bucketful – at least that has been my previous experience! Of...

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I had to laugh – or am I the laughing stock?

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 24 Sep

As I’ve mentioned before I sometimes do events work. Today I was working at a finance conference at a posh hotel. I was one of three staff sent by the agency I usually work for. One was a woman in her late thirties, let’s call her...

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So many little annoyances!!

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 11 Sep

This week I’m just having so many annoying things happen. Not big things – obviously in the great scheme of things they are not worth mentioning – but just irritating. First, a couple of lights in the house stopped working. One...

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Another favourite from the show

Fleur @Fleura (36167) • United Kingdom 11 Sep

I mentioned going to a country show; there are fewer of these than there used to be, sadly. Issues like insurance and other costs are just pushing them over the edge, which I think is so sad. Even the biggest of all, the Royal...

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