Fleur

@Fleura (29222)

United Kingdom

Joined myLot 9 years ago

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Lost – and found – and lost again

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 6 May

I bought this bracelet 23 years ago in Spain. The design is called a Byzantine chain which I particularly like. I wore it a lot and then suddenly I lost it. I turned the house upside down looking for it, to no avail. I asked...

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Completed plant hanger

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 6 May

I promised to show you my completed macrame project – here it is. Not bad for a first attempt, I’m quite pleased with it and, most importantly, it does the job I needed it for. It actually didn’t take long at all, in one evening...

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Even the youngsters couldn’t help me

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 3 May

Yesterday afternoon I was working at a business event and the whole organisation were super security conscious. You couldn’t leave the foyer without a security pass, meaning that as temporary staff we had to be given cards to open...

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Was this mean?

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 3 May

As I’ve often mentioned, I’m a keen user of ‘Freegle’, where you pass on unwanted things, or ask for things other people might have going spare. Since I started (on what was then Freecycle) in 2003 I must have Freegled many...

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Whitby museum

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 1 May

One day of our week was forecast to be wet, so we decided on a visit to Whitby museum and art gallery. The art gallery was a pleasant space and showcased art by various past and present local artists. We all enjoyed admiring the...

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My latest project

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 30 Apr

Back when I lived in a boat, I used to have a lot of plant hangers, because there was basically no space to put the plants anywhere except hanging up, and they were in vogue then so easy to find. And I still have the hangers and...

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Whitby abbey

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 30 Apr

So of course being in Whitby we had to visit the ruins of the abbey, famous in ‘Goth’ circles and among Dracula fans (@Tampa_girl7). It’s just one of many ruined abbeys, monasteries and priories scattered around Britain, forcibly...

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A windy week in Whitby!

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 27 Apr

We recently spent a week’s holiday in Whitby, on the north-east coast of England. When I mentioned our plans to anyone I quickly found that we seemed to be just about the only people in our village who have never been there –...

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Not a great start to the day!

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 23 Apr

This morning I had arranged to call on a friend first thing, but when I got there she wasn’t yet back from taking her children to school. Her husband invited me in and made me a coffee, then he told me that he was still only half...

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The whole is not always greater than the sum of the parts

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 22 Apr

I have been working my way through a pile of old ‘Good Food’ magazines I was given, and trying out a few new recipes. I found one for ‘pear and mincemeat crumble cake’ and thought I would give it a try – we still had a jar of...

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I could actually become an enthusiast!

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 17 Apr

I have never understood train spotters and rail enthusiasts. Trains are really not that different to buses, and yes I know there are bus spotters out there too but I certainly never understood them either! I’ve been on diesel...

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Excitement at the beach!

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 16 Apr

We don’t go to the seaside all that often, because it’s at the very least two hours’ drive from here, and when we do go the closest places have sandy beaches, so there was a lot of excitement this week when we were in part of the...

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The carpet is pink!

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 5 Apr

This week both our girls are away so I have decided to have a spring clean of their rooms. When they are here and we complain about the mess they say they are trying to tidy up, but honestly I think it’s got so bad they are...

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Better late than never

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 4 Apr

If I see a tempting-looking recipe in a magazine I like to save it to try one day. I’ve been doing this for years and have built up quite a collection, and one of the recipes I had saved for future use was for hot cross buns...

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My funny dream

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 3 Apr

This week the girls are both away, which is a novel experience! It also means I don’t absolutely have to get up at 7 am which is the normal routine on a school day. So yesterday I actually dozed off again for a few minutes and in...

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Did you know digital photos have been around for over 100 years?

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 2 Apr

Did you know digital photos have been around for over 100 years? No, neither did I. But today when I tried to download some photos my computer asked me if I wanted to save those, or some others with the same details taken on 30th...

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Another snippet of social history

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 2 Apr

I’m still sorting through things left after my parents died (more than ten years ago) and that includes things left after my great-aunt and uncle died (in 1974 and ’76) which have been left since then. Most of the big things have...

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A funny news story

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 27 Mar

Every day I have a quick look at the news, because I kind of feel I ought to know what’s going on in the world even if it is really depressing. But for once I found a little story that really did make me smile. A woman in...

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15 people

Three happy people!

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 26 Mar

A couple of years ago we created a large pond in our garden, but the snag was that we were then left with big piles of topsoil, even bigger piles of clay subsoil and two heaps of rocks. And they’re not even good quality rocks,...

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Just keep smiling

Fleur @Fleura (29222) • United Kingdom 18 Mar

I’m not sure how to explain this without giving away too many personal details, but basically I wanted to change an account I hold for my daughter at a building society into something else with the same provider. This course of...

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