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A Long Weekend in the Grampians
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For Christmas my parents gave me and my siblings vouchers to stay a night at the Royal Mail hotel in Dunkeld and have dinner at Wickens, the main restaurant there.…
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Wales Day 14: Caerleon Roman Sites, Tintern Abbey and on to England
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Thursday 15th May 2025 Today we packed up to head towards Stonehenge, but first we had a few more sites to visit in Wales. Our first stop was the Caerleon…
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List #35: Habits on my Tracking Spreadsheet
After being away for so much of this year, I was determined to get back into some kind of routine once we were going to be mostly home. I set…
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List #34:Good Things Friday September 2025
Can you believe that it will be October next week? The months are flying by and are filled with good things. What are your recent good things? Do you have…
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Wales Day 13: Pen-y-Fan and Hay-on-Wye
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Wednesday 14th May 2025 This morning we had coffee and pastries at Coffee#1 in Brecon and picked up some BLT sandwiches while we were there for a picnic lunch. We…
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Books: August 2025
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Damascus Station – David McCloskey From Storygraph: A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in Damascus to hunt for a killer CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris…
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Wildflower wander, Green Waste, New Running Schedule
Yesterday I went on a guided wildflower wander at the Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve. Our council has put on a series of these wanders through various reserves in the area.…
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Wales Day 12: Brecon Canal and Blaenhavon
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Tuesday 13th May This morning I did my long run along the Brecon Canal. I did an out and back of just over 21K. The scenery was gorgeous. This was…
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Time Logging August 2025
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Nicole recently posted about her time tracking and it made me start thinking about giving it another go myself. Since I’ve been traveling a lot this year, I haven’t really…
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Friday Thoughts #21
Each year the NGV puts on a special Winter Masterpieces Exhibition. I went to The Picasso Century in 2022 and last year I went to Pharoah. Yesterday I took myself…
"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." – Mary Oliver