Fleur

@Fleura (31790)

United Kingdom

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What a different experience!

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 13 Jun

I wrote before about going to see a film with a friend. We went to a small independent cinema in town which has just two screens. I was worried about finding a place to park – I never drive into town but I was taking the friend –...

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At last!

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 11 Jun

We finally got our car back! After ten and a half weeks!! We took it for its annual MOT test (ministry of transport roadworthiness check) in late March and didn’t get it back until the start of June. Honestly I’ve never heard of...

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Everyone should see this – and then act on it!

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 23 May

Last week I went with a friend to the cinema to see David Attenborough’s latest film, ‘Ocean’. I came away with the feeling that this is something everyone should see. It’s too easy to adopt the ‘out of sight, out of mind’...

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It was a long wait!

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 17 May

Back in August last year, as I was pruning our grape vine, I found an elephant hawk moth caterpillar. And since we were all curious to see what the ‘final version’, as it were, would be like, we kept it in a special enclosure. We...

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Will there be any point in learning anything any more?

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 15 May

Now that AI is becoming such a regular ‘thing’ and not the stuff of science fiction any more, will the next generation be ‘outsourcing’ their brains and not bothering to learn anything any more? Will there be any point in going to...

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Getting better at gluten-free baking

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 13 May

Gluten-free food was something I never had to even think about for the first few decades of my life. But recently it has become more of an issue. I have had to prepare gluten-free food for social functions, and now we have a...

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The view you don’t normally get

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 12 May

On our recent outing we visited a garden where there were some peacocks. And one of them obligingly displayed his glorious tail for us to admire (well really not for us, but for the benefit of a nearby peahen who I have to say...

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And one more thing

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 11 May

Another thing that I find annoying – and this certainly isn’t limited to electric cars – is that manufacturers seem to be competing to produce the most-easily-dropped car keys. I’m always a bit paranoid, especially if I park on...

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Just too creepy!

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 11 May

This electric car is just too creepy for me. The actual driving experience is OK, in fact it’s quite nice once you get used to the differences between an electric motor and an internal combustion engine – but all the electronics...

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Something new to test!

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 9 May

I have written before about our car-related tribulations. We took our car for an MOT test 6 weeks ago yesterday and haven’t got it back yet! First we had to just do without… then we hired a car for a week’s holiday… then after 4...

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How to choose?

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 9 May

Last weekend there was a VE day event in the village, and for that we needed plenty of glasses. There were not enough available in the village hall, and the cost of hiring them, although not that much per glass, added up to quite...

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A whole new level of generic

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 8 May

I often browse on Ebay when I’m looking for something, just in case someone happens to be selling the thing I want, especially if it’s nearby. Today I thought I would have a look in case anyone is selling an office chair. Our...

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Spring is here – oh no it isn’t – oh yes it is!

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 8 May

Honestly we are having funny weather here. April was very dry and quite warm, no sign of the traditional April showers. The first of May was the hottest ‘since records began’ (although nationwide records only began in 1914) so it...

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When is a wall not a wall?

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 30 Apr

To me, a wall is a self-supporting boundary built of some solid material such as bricks, stones or concrete blocks. If a continuous boundary is created from living bushes or trees, that’s a hedge (if it isn’t continuous then it’s...

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Tentatively helping

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 29 Apr

Last week, when we were stuck without a car, my friend kindly added me onto her car insurance so I could borrow her car, as I needed to pick up a lot of things that just weren’t feasible on a bicycle. But she did warn me that her...

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Where are all the bees?

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 28 Apr

We are having a glorious few days just now and gardens and roadsides everywhere are filled with blossom, scenting the air. But something is badly wrong. Where are all the bees? Last year and this year there has been a...

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Not back yet!

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 25 Apr

Last month I wrote about how we had dropped our car off for the routine annual MOT test (roadworthiness, basically) and the garage somehow ‘broke’ it. Well guess what – we still haven’t got it back! The first couple of weeks we...

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My bank is rubbish!

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 22 Apr

A couple of weeks ago I made an online donation to a charity appeal. Somehow my details were intercepted by fraudsters who (I later found) attempted to make a series of further payments to some online gambling company I had never...

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Why do people not cycle?

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 18 Apr

The last post was too long to continue so I have had to make this a separate one. When I started on the list of reasons people may have for not cycling, it was far longer then the ‘reasons they do’ list. And one striking aspect...

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Why do people cycle?

Fleur @Fleura (31790) • United Kingdom 17 Apr

The other day I visited a friend who I sometimes get together with to play music. Then as I was leaving, her husband arrived. He turned out to be a retired town planner and he is now writing a book about planning for ways to...

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