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Tag: picnic

  • A brick viaduct with a single main span and two smaller spans crosses the River Evenlode, flanked with verdant grassy banks and trees with Spring buds and leaves.

    Water Science #2

    For the second time, the kids and I had an outing to do some "citizen science" experiments on a local watercourse.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1009 words)

    • Article
    • posted 21 April, 2024
  • Image representing post: Marks & Spensive

    Marks & Spensive

    Dan trolls shoppers in the queue behind him at Marks & Spencer.

    Read more (228 words)

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    • 4 comments
    • posted 21 January, 2012
  • Image representing post: A Punting Story

    A Punting Story

    Dan, Ruth and JTA borrow a punt and go for a picnic. It turns out that driving a punt is a lot harder than it looks. Especially when you're drunk.

    Read more (281 words)

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 21 March, 2011
  • Busy Weekends Part II

    Following up on my post about the weekend before the weekend before last - here's what I got up to the weekend before last (i.e. the weekend after that). You can see why I'm confused:

    Ruth's Family Picnic

    The weekend before last, JTA and I joined Ruth and her family at their "annual family picnic". This family โ€ฆ

    Read more (356 words)

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 21 July, 2010
  • Iโ€™m Still In Aber. Yay.

    [this post has been partially damaged during a server failure on Sunday 11th July 2004, and it has been possible to recover only a part of it]

    I'm still in Aberystwyth, which I thought was a good thing even before people who don't have the same benefit complained [Alec complaining, Ruth complaining, Adam complaining] about it. โ€ฆ

    Read more (182 words)

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    • posted 30 March, 2004
  • This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.

    Claire wrote:
    Well, the clocks have gone forward and the sun has come out. Something tells me there'll be no more snow for a while. Yesterday, Dan, Paul, Bryn and I went up Pen Dinas (large hill south of aber with monument atop it) and had โ€ฆ

    Read more (274 words)

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    • of this original
    • posted 29 March, 2004
  • Picnic Time

    We're off on a picnic! Bryn, Claire, Paul and I are making sandwiches and we're off up Pen Dinas to scoff them and watch the sunset. Which is nice.
    It feels like springtime.

    Read more (33 words)

    • Note
    • posted 28 March, 2004
  • Banks

    It seems that NatWest now only open during the hours at which I am at work. Yet somehow I'm expected to deposit my paycheque. This makes no sense.

    Mostly, I've been watching Futurama and drinking good beer. On Saturday, Claire and I went up to a forest North of Dolgellau and ate sandwiches and failed to โ€ฆ

    Read more (105 words)

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    • posted 3 August, 2003

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