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Dinner with Tom and Sarah

Tom and Sarah, our new next door neighbours, very kindly invited us to dinner on Saturday night. Not for anything special, said Sarah but she dished up a wonderful meal. We had melon and Serano ham for a starter and beef bourguignonne for our main course, which was delicious and the meat just melted in [...]

Blitzed!!!

It is a week today since we said goodbye to our last visitors of this season and we started on a cleaning and tidying up programme. Spring cleaning in August – we must be mad!
The weather was kind to us as for 6 days there was heavy cloud and temperatures were more conducive to working, [...]