A sliver of pizza:
Pour arranger la bouche:
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Minion’s new lair:
Hair stylist:
Shed destruction:
Author: dodman
Summer’s coming
The ex-pond, with a stone fish in a stone river:
Charlie, Rosabelle and Mamichou:
An isolated fingerpost:
Picking wild garlic:
Apple blossom:
Lettuce salad:
Rickety swing:
Dandelion:
Gone to seed:
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nice photos dod. i guess I haven’t seen rosabelle for a while – she’s grown loads!
the ex-pond is looking very “zen”;-)
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pinkie
Lovely photos, but what happened to the goldfish?
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I would like to say we ate them, lightly battered; but the truth is, they were liberated, along with a bucket of tadpoles, in Binstead Pond.
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carotte That dandelion clock would appear to be superior to yours Liv!!! Good photo’s. I give the river a good five minutes in current state when the hoolies arrive!!! What about an ornamental bridge over it? I liked the bridge.
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carotte
are those anti cat toilet sticks I see???
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The sticks show where we planted our miniscule geraniums …
Election fever – the bottom line
What a ghastly choice: Lord Snooty, with 17 old Etonians in his Cabinet; the discredited Supreme Leader, with the Miliband puppets jerking convulsively in the background; or the party of, as AA Gill put it, ‘comfortably vast bottoms’.
Clearly, my civic duty is to spoil my ballet paper.
Goodwood
Stepping out:
Studying the form:
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dodman, try editing the post and uploading the photos again.
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I keep getting this message:
The uploaded file could not be moved to /f2/livsterblog/public/wp-content/uploads/2010/05.
And if I try via Z Raven, it keeps stopping at 60% …
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some sort of weird bug. have another go.
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That sorted it.
Yes Minister
According to the BBC:
On Planet Greece some civil servants get a bonus for turning up to work on time. Foresters get a bonus for working outdoors. At least they show up.
There are civil servants called ghost workers because they never go into the office, head to a second job and still claim a state salary. They can’t get sacked, because a civil service post is for life. Unless the incumbent decides to retire in his or her forties, with a pension.
And the government can continue paying for the afterlife. Unmarried and divorced daughters of civil servants are entitled to collect their dead parents pensions. Another lucrative sinecure is to belong to a state committee. The government has no idea how many there are.
It has been estimated that they have 10,000 employees and cost nearly £200m a year, and that includes the committee to manage a lake that dried up 80 years ago.
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crazy!
Shed construction
In the beginning:
Halfway
Stop for triple coffee:
The end of the truckle:
Fried rind:
Finished:
Polystyrene tower destined for tip:
Six stare wood store added:
Breakfast the day after: toast, butter and marmalade:
Alternative breakfast: buckwheat groats.
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carotte
Great shed – what a neat wood store!! Mama’s work? I can only assume that the alternative brekkie is being taken for health reasons – we prefer pancakes here. One with ‘uptella’, one with honey and one with lemon and sugar!!
Only just noticed the ‘WOL’ written on your owl box. Neat!