Fleur

@Fleura (33152)

United Kingdom

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Are you a baby person?

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 30 Nov

I was never a baby person. I know a lot of people love babies, and some who positively go crazy cooing over them and cuddling them, but I’m not one of them. In the past, when a work colleague brought their offspring in to show...

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Pantomime progress

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 30 Nov

I was asked for updates on the construction of pantomime scenery… Because it’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ we are going to have quite a lot of underwater scenery. And of course because it’s panto, everything has to be larger, more...

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Uses for origami

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 27 Nov

Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, is something many of us have probably tried at one time or another. I know I’ve made a few frogs and fairly simple things like that. But I thought of it as an artform and an activity for...

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Pantomime scenery in progress!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 26 Nov

All my Sunday mornings for the past month or so have been taken up with making scenery for the pantomime. It’s going to be ‘The Little Mermaid’ this year so there will be plenty of sea-themed décor. Our lead props and scenery...

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A life or death drama!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 25 Nov

Yesterday morning my partner remarked that he had just seen a baby Muntjac deer in the garden (Muntjac breed all year round). We both rushed to the kitchen door to have a look, but of course it had disappeared into the...

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How embarrassing!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 24 Nov

On Saturday morning I was expecting a few people to come round to play some music together, for our ‘really very slow’ session. I made the mistake of going back to bed with my coffee and sitting there reading just a little bit too...

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I just made a man happy!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 14 Nov

Now don’t go jumping to conclusions! For a long time I’ve been trying to sell odds and ends on eBay, but with variable success. After doing quite well at first, about 10 years ago, things really ground to a halt and...

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Is there anything you eat that others consider waste?

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 13 Nov

I know some people cut the green leaves off leeks and spring onions, for example, and just throw those away. We use all of those, plus young leaves around the cauliflower, the stalks of broccoli (partner loves this roasted),...

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This is much better!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 11 Nov

So after I managed to somehow break the nut crackers, I said to my partner I might have to resort to using the vice. He thought I was joking… I took the bag of walnuts to the garage, and a little tub for the contents, and used...

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This was a tough nut!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 11 Nov

We have a few bags of local walnuts, and I just thought I would have a little healthy snack to keep me going. Sadly this was not to be, I seem to have destroyed the nut crackers. I don’t know what I do wrong. My partner has been...

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Photos are back, hurrah!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 11 Nov

I haven’t posted on here for days. So many things came up to post about but everything makes more sense with a photo to go with it! At the weekend I went on a bit of a shopping spree. Partner’s parents gave me some money for my...

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I’m fed up with all this!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 5 Nov

Do you remember when you used to walk into a shop to buy some small thing, you would pay for it and walk out and that was the end of it? Nowadays you often get asked for your email address or actual home address (why should I...

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Some things didn’t turn out so bad

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 5 Nov

It hasn’t been a great year for the garden. It started off OK but the summer was very dry. It wasn’t as hot as some of the recent summers have been, thankfully, but the lack of rain was a real issue. Although I have ten water...

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A happy accident

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 2 Nov

Yesterday I was helping out at a community event all morning. Then in the afternoon my partner and I had booked a theatre trip to see a performance by a local amateur dramatics group. It was a bit of a busy day but the matinee...

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The Hunger Games

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 30 Oct

The book ‘The Hunger Games’ was a best-seller, and had a massive following especially among teenagers and young adults (what this says about contemporary ‘western’ society will, I suspect, provide much analytical material for...

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We made vermicelles!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 23 Oct

I previously posted about the chestnuts I gathered, and @LadyDuck suggested vermicelles, a dessert also known as Mont Blanc. So yesterday, with a little bit of help from our Italian lodgers, we made some; this is the result. We...

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Effusive gratitude

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 21 Oct

We live in a little cul-de-sac of five houses and on bin day we have to take our wheelie bins to the end of the road – and then back once they’ve been emptied, obviously. We never like to leave the bins out there too long...

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Another thing I didn't throw out!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 21 Oct

I prefer ‘proper coffee’ over instant, and generally make it using a cafetiere/ French press. Sadly we went through a bit of a phase of breaking the glass and in general it’s cheaper to look for a second hand cafetiere in a...

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I have a cunning plan!

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 18 Oct

After hearing about other people’s experience at the ‘slow session’, I wanted to try it and see if it really was as bad as it seemed, so a couple of weeks ago I plucked up my courage, packed my recorder and set off. They say on...

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The not-so-slow music session

Fleur @Fleura (33152) • United Kingdom 18 Oct

There are some pubs around here which host folk music ‘sessions’; when anyone can just turn up and join in. The snag is that unless you are an accomplished player it can be really hard to join in, everyone plays so fast, they know...

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