Fleur

@Fleura (32023)

United Kingdom

Joined myLot 10 years ago

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'Fine dining'

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 12 Jul

As well as my regular work I sometimes work at events. Often these are things like concerts that I get to enjoy free – well actually I get paid to be there – but recently I’ve done a few ‘fine dining’ events. The first was at a...

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Something I never thought I would need to do

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 11 Jul

As a parent I have found myself doing things I never used to do, or even things I thought I would never do. For example the phrase ‘Just a minute’ was never part of my vocabulary; now it’s something I seem to utter several times...

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Cherry harvest

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 8 Jul

My partner loves cherries, and was hankering after a cherry tree or two, although we don’t have the best space for them really – all the best, sunny spots are already taken. But then last autumn I came across a special offer of...

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Why am I finding this so hard?

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 7 Jul

My mother kept a lot (most!) of the things from my childhood, including many clothes, and then when I had children they had a new lease of life; Big One wore them, and in many cases Little One wore them as well. By then they had...

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What will he give up next?

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 5 Jul

As I’ve mentioned before, my partner gave up alcohol quite a while ago – it must be 5 or 6 years ago already. He tried for a month, and although he used to be quite a keen drinker before, he said he didn’t miss it and was quite...

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I said yes

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 4 Jul

A week or so ago, a friend asked if I could take care of some of her animals while she went on holiday. She has arranged for her brother to house-sit and care for some of the pets (two dogs, two cats, a couple of fish tanks, a...

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I'm excited!

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 2 Jul

Several times I’ve been on here lamenting the lack of insects the last few years. I’ve been out in the garden or walking in the countryside and everything has been unnaturally still and quiet. Other people have noticed this as...

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Do they want it or not?

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 2 Jul

I find it really annoying when you are told by some organisation how important you are and how much they need you – and then when you try to respond you can’t actually speak to anyone. Recently I’ve been receiving messages from...

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Picking up the violin

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 1 Jul

Our eldest daughter, known here as ‘Big One’, plays the recorder. Her teacher also teaches the violin, and she often asked if Big One would be interested in taking that up. For years she said no, but finally she decided she would,...

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Getting in some extra exercise

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 24 Jun

Recently I’ve been feeling a bit more ‘flabby’ than usual, especially around the tummy, and I wasn’t happy about that, so I thought I had better do something. I do get a reasonable amount of exercise in my daily life, working in...

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When something needs doing

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 23 Jun

Are you the kind of person who steps up when something needs doing? I’m trying to be one of those people. In the past I often wanted to be, and thought of doing something, but then somehow didn’t get around to it. If I saw...

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One of those days

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 23 Jun

“They're funny things, accidents. You never have them till you're having them.” (Eeyore in ‘The House at Pooh Corner’ by A. A. Milne). I’m going through a patch of clumsiness right now. Not in any major way (yet) but just little...

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Past midsummer already!

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 22 Jun

So yesterday was the summer solstice, midsummer’s day! Can’t believe the longest day is past already. Yesterday was an absolutely glorious summer day though, just perfect. Sunny and warm, but not too hot (at least not unless you...

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My garden doesn’t look as good as it should!

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • United Kingdom 18 Jun

Over the last few years I have often divided or dug out extra perennials and offered them on Freegle or donated them to the plant stall at the local primary school summer fete. And several people have told me that their gardens...

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What a different experience!

Fleur @Fleura (32023) • 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 (32023) • 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 (32023) • 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 (32023) • 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 (32023) • 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 (32023) • 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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