Fleur

@Fleura (29725)

United Kingdom

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I have a helper

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 10 Sep

Nowadays when I’m working in the garden I have a ‘helper’. We have been keeping chickens now for about 12 years (not the same ones all that time), but for a while now I have been thinking I will give up chicken keeping. I was the...

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Good gardening

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 9 Sep

Last week I went for an outing with a friend to an open garden. Their herbaceous border was particularly impressive, but all the garden really was very organised. I was impressed with the way the plants were mainly in separate...

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Making housework more fun

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 7 Sep

We were at a folk music and dance event last weekend and one of the traditional dance groups did a dance that actually involved folding a sheet! It reminded me of when I was little, my mother used to get me to help with folding...

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Why didn’t he say?

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 6 Sep

I have ‘won’ an item of furniture on Ebay and I need to go and collect it. I asked, earlier in the week, if I could go today and the seller said yes. This morning I got some work done then emailed to ask if it was OK to come...

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She is real!

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 6 Sep

The picture is not connected to the post content, just a picture of something unusual that stood out! One of the lighter moments from yesterday was that as we sat in the cinema at the end of the film, bracing ourselves for...

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We were soaked!

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 6 Sep

Yesterday the girls and I planned a trip to the cinema, to see an animated adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s book ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’, a story which they both enjoyed. It would be a nice outing to a small historic theatre which I...

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What do inverted commas indicate to you?

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 5 Sep

My understanding is that inverted commas indicate one of two things. Either they are used as speech marks, to report the exact words spoken by someone else as in, for example, “Would you like a drink?” Robin asked. The second is...

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Feeling fat

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 2 Sep

I know that nowadays, ‘fat’ is practically a dirty word and no longer just a simple descriptor. And the body positivity movement encourages everyone to feel good about their physical size and shape. That’s all well and good and...

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And again – but in a different way!

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 1 Sep

I just wrote about how pleased I was to find exactly what I wanted on Freegle, the very next day after I thought I wanted one! Now Freegle has hit the spot again, but in a different way. Last week we visited our ‘usual’ beach...

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Freegle comes up trumps again!

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 1 Sep

Last week we were on holiday in Wales (my home country). I have a small place there which I inherited as a derelict wreck and have spent a few years getting renovated. It’s basically a little home from home and is equipped with...

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Back again!

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 30 Aug

It’s a while since I was here – school holidays certainly play havoc with one’s usual routine! Getting back to normal again now though. It’s been quite a busy summer, so of course now I have lots of things to write about – if I...

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Just when you think the world has really gone mad – it gets worse!

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 25 Jul

Just came across this story. An employee, who had been in his job for less than three weeks, attempted to sue his boss for sexual harassment because his (the boss’) name was Willy. Thank God the judge threw that case out...

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Book bags

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 24 Jul

The second thing on my list of things to make was book bags. The school librarian has had the idea of doing her bit to reduce the use of plastic by using book bags instead of putting the books into plastic covers. So instead of...

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A day of making things

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 24 Jul

Yesterday turned into a day of making things. Little One came home from school poorly the day before and had a bad night, so she was at home resting in the morning while I worked. But in the afternoon she felt better so we tackled...

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Does coffee make you more productive?

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 22 Jul

It’s an established idea isn’t it, that a coffee or two is what’s needed to get us going in the mornings and help us think more clearly and get things done. Does it work for you? I guess it might work if I lived in Italy, where...

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Has anyone else had this problem?

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 21 Jul

A few days ago, for no reason at all, my ‘phone (which is a Nokia of some sort) decided to change the size of the text in my text messages. I didn’t do anything at all to change any settings. Only text messages are affected. On...

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One of life’s simple pleasures

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 20 Jul

Many of the simplest things in life are also the best – and often, the most underrated. In my book, one of life’s great pleasures is walking barefoot on cool grass (or in the case of our ‘lawn’, maybe I should just say ‘on cool...

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Why would you do that?

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 19 Jul

Does your partner have an annoying habit – or maybe several? Of course we all have our little habits and often they can be irritating to others, I’m certainly not saying I’m perfect. And I’m not talking about the big things that...

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Revenge - kind of!

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 19 Jul

Today is just the most perfect summer day, and yesterday was the same, so after all the dull and wet miserable weather we’ve had recently (and before we get hit with any heatwave!) I thought I had better make the most of it. I...

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My personal bugbear

Fleur @Fleura (29725) • United Kingdom 18 Jul

One thing that particularly annoys and upsets me is getting up in the morning and being faced with all the detritus of the night before. I like a fresh start each morning, and I really hate it if I go into the kitchen and find...

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