Fleur

@Fleura (15098)

United Kingdom

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When a supervisor takes against you

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 11h

@TheHorse just made me think of this. A long time ago, when I was still at school, I had a ‘Saturday job’ at a restaurant called ‘Little Chef’ - remember them anyone in the UK? They were a kind of slightly more up-market version...

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Entertaining neighbours

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 11 May

I don’t actually know this gentleman’s name, but he lives in the next road and I sometimes see him setting out somewhere or arriving home. He rides a moped and his dog, which I think is a cockapoo, rides on the back in a basket....

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Too many light bulbs!

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 10 May

Every place I have lived in the past pretty much just used standard light bulbs - originally the classic bayonet-fitting, incandescent type, and more recently the compact fluorescent ones. The only other type were unusual ones...

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How words change meanings in subtle ways

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 8 May

My daughter (‘Big One’) recently discovered some YouTube personality who makes amusing videos by translating songs and the like into various different languages, using Google translate, and then does the same to translate them...

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May blossom

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 7 May

Spring is now in full swing here. One of the iconic flowers of spring is the May (Hawthorn) blossom. It covers the hedges (as long as they haven’t been cut too hard), and also individual bushes. The scent is quite strong as you...

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Do you have one of these?

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 6 May

Do you have one of these silicone spatula thingies? I recently acquired one and it’s very useful for scraping sticky things out of bowls. A while ago I was listening to a cookery programme on the radio and someone asked the...

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What was he doing?

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 5 May

Around 6 pm today I happened to notice something outside our window, and when I looked closer I saw a man photographing a bicycle lying in the road just outside our neighbour’s house. The man, who was youngish with a beard and a...

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Sometimes, tinkering works!

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 5 May

Two or three years ago I bought a little digital DAB clock radio. I hate noisy alarm clocks, I’m sure being frightened into wakefulness every day is a bad thing and anyway I almost always wake up naturally but then still jump when...

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Do you know what this is?

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 4 May

One of my friends subscribes to a regular veg box scheme, which means she gets a box of seasonal vegetables delivered to her home every week. Of course she just gets whatever is available, and sometimes doesn’t fancy it or gets...

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A mixed morning.

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 1 May

Yesterday, I slept well and in the morning I felt that I could easily have rolled over and gone back to sleep for another couple of hours - something I really need! Of course I couldn’t as it was a school day. This morning, in...

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Held up by the big questions.

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 30 Apr

Every morning the girls come for a ‘morning cuddle’ before we all get up and start rushing around to get ready for school. Usually just a few minutes. But this morning, just as we were getting up, Little One asked ‘Where did the...

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Are you a sock fascist?

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 29 Apr

Some friends called round once, when I had washing on the line, and the husband called me a ‘sock fascist’ because I had pegged the socks out in pairs. Well as far as I can see socks are worn in pairs, so at some point they do...

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I'm being watched...

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 26 Apr

I can feel it; lots of eyes watching my every move. I’m in the garden digging out a new flowerbed. Before I’ve even finished removing the turf, a blackbird is there looking to see if I’ve turned up anything interesting. And then...

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We have the most unimaginative blackbird!

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 25 Apr

Male blackbirds have a distinctive whistling song, and are known to modify their songs and sometimes incorporate sounds they have heard such as telephones and car alarms. So naturally every bird’s song is likely to be different....

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Interesting conversations on trains

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 23 Apr

A post by @xFiacre started a conversation with @MALUSE about trains, and meeting people on them. I don’t know why, but trains seem to foster interesting conversations with fellow passengers, far more than other forms of...

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The ground was so lumpy!

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 22 Apr

I’m away from home at the moment, so away from all the usual time constraints. And it was a beautiful sunny evening, so I thought I would take my laptop and sit in the field near where I know there is a badger sett, just on the...

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Do they want it, or don't they?

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 22 Apr

I’ve been a regular blood donor for about 30 years. I used to go to the regional donor centre because I worked not far away, and for a while afterwards because I was part of a trial which could only be carried out there. But...

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appointment

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When is it vandalism, and when is it art?

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 19 Apr

Railway bridges and road underpasses around here tend to be a magnet for mindless graffiti, usually just pointless unreadable ‘tags’ or sometimes offensive messages. But recently someone (or some people) have upped their game and...

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Must be summer!

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 19 Apr

Is there one thing that really says to you ‘Yes the seasons have changed!’? Of course there are incremental changes all the time, especially at this time of year as every day a few more flowers appear, the trees get a little bit...

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Killing three birds with one stone!

Fleur @Fleura (15098) • United Kingdom 29 Mar

I reported a week or two ago that I had booked my Covid-19 vaccinations. Now I’m happy to report that I received the first one a few days ago and all has gone well. It turned out to be quite a nice morning so I decided to cycle....

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