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February 28, 2008

Amelia Trust Farm

The sun shone beautifully it was a day to make the most of so Casey and I jumped into the car full of expectation to visit The Amelia Trust Farm on the five mile lane leading into Barry.

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February 26, 2008

Timeshare scams

I love visiting my timeshare in America but I hate the way they try to exort extra money off me, for example, I received the following information.

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February 24, 2008

Wales v Italy.

Well, my brother will be going back home on Friday with a very large smile on his face indeed...

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February 22, 2008

Move over Nigella...

I had nothing planned for the evening. I had asked Claire of "The Bee Orchid" over to tea because she is having a new kitchen fitted and is upside down at the moment. My daughter called to invite me over to tea so I reversed the invitation

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February 21, 2008

Keeping up with the times

I am hopeless at understanding mobile phones and I am not able to use my DVD player as the controls confuse me so imagine my happiness when yesterday I completed my tax disc online. I didn't ask anyone for help and have avoided the dreadful queue in my local post office.

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February 16, 2008

Desperate Children

I attended a meeting of Sova and Unifem last night, I had never heard of the organisation Unifem but on reading their literature I was very impressed by their aims....working for women's empowerment and gender equality....reducing poverty among women...ending violence against women.

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February 14, 2008

Not even a funny valentine!

Even though I am over the hill, I would have loved to have received some sort of token on Valentine's day...as it was I offered to help out in "The Bee Orchid" delivering bouquets, chocolates, teddies and balloons to a variety of lucky ladies and one gentleman, whose wife had just had twins and had sent him a big bunch of flowers in celebration of their wonderful new arrivals.

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February 13, 2008

Hands off my "What Not"

Up in Birmingham celebrating my niece's 18th birthday her mother and I decided to go to the Birmingham Museum and a walk along the canal as the weather was beautiful.

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February 7, 2008

Decisions....Decisions

It is back to the time of year that I have to swap my apartment in Florida for our August holiday. The trouble is there are getting less and less of us, as the children find their own way in life they want to strike out and do their own thing.

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February 4, 2008

Second Chance

Answering the knock on my door I was faced by a young man who explained to me that he had been an offender but was making an effort of going straight by selling products door to door. He stood there shivering in his boots expectantly holding out his credentials and explaining that he had done very well on my road.

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February 3, 2008

As long as we beat the English...

You could taste the tension in my home when Wales started to turn around the match on Saturday......I have never been able to understand the rules of rugby but I could see our boys suddenly found the passion, determination and speed that eventually won them the match.

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