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More lessons, and the start of a dining room makeover
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99 things
99 things: photo from Flickr This has been on a number of blogs, and finally I am joining in. Why don’t you play along? Just copy and paste these 99 things onto your blog and bold the things you HAVE done… here are mine: 1. Started your own blog 2. Slept under the stars 3….

7th day of December….. golden reflections I do love warm
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Lessons Learned – already!
It is never too early in the year to learn some lessons, and I am even a day early with my “What I Learned this Week” post, but taking the chance to blog now. So this week I learned : Enjoy your sale purchases – even if they don’t have a function other than to…

An evening walk around Hillsborough lake
Last Sunday evening a friend and I headed out for a walk around Hillsborough lake. Hillsborough lake, forest and fort are lovely, but it had been a while since I went there for a walk. Hillsborough Lake and forest park were originally part of the Hillsborugh Demesne owned by the Marquis of Downshire. Hillsborough Castle…