Miss Magpie's musings

Well I think I might have to do March in two postings it was a mega busy month.  I started with a treat to myself, something to look forward to for surviving January, and as it turned out Febr...

http://missmagpiemusings.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-march-round-up-part-one.html

 Well I should have known I wouldn’t get the chance to blog in January - February. It’s always a crazy busy time at work and this year we had a bumper application stage, so I spent the major...

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 This year I set myself the target of 50 books and managed 66. As ever when I am stressed I read avidly, it is an escape mechanism for me, so the end of the year was bumper. It's been another...

http://missmagpiemusings.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-annual-book-round-up.html

 Hello and a very Happy New Year to you all.  I had hoped to post a little earlier than this but January is always crazy busy for work and after a day glued to the work laptop I'm only too ha...

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Thank you for the kind comments to my last post, I do appreciate you. It's good to be more settled and to start feeling like myself again. Anyway To jump back slightly to the 31st of Octo...

http://missmagpiemusings.blogspot.com/2023/12/november-round-up.html

 Well back in May when I was blogging about our wonderful trip to Cornwall I didn’t anticipate disappearing until November.  Whilst I was still coming to terms with losing Dad and there...

http://missmagpiemusings.blogspot.com/2023/11/waving-or-drowning-2023-so-far.html

 Our final morning in St Ives was another glorious one and saw us saying a sorry goodbye to the apartment that had been our home for the week. We took a slow meander down through the town and al...

http://missmagpiemusings.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-cornish-adventure-part-three.html

 Welcome to part two of our Cornish adventure.   I shall pick up where I left off.  The next day was Tuesday and again the weather was meant to be rainy, though the forecast hadn't expla...

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 This year marked Himself’s 50th birthday, I knew he wouldn’t want a party but wasn’t sure what he would want to do instead. So in January we had the following conversation; Me: “ What...

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Well, this is not the blog post I had planned to write. I had something all set for the end of January but unfortunately my Dad’s health took a turn for the worst and he ended up in hospital....

http://missmagpiemusings.blogspot.com/2023/06/up-up-long-delirious-burning-blue.html

 Firstly, a belated very Happy New Year. As ever my January is proving to be completely crazy workwise (and socially too where I am trying to fit in things that had to be rearranged from Decem...

http://missmagpiemusings.blogspot.com/2023/01/december-and-all-that.html

 Well November turned out to be as busy as I expected it to be.  It started with going to the cinema to see the second Black Panther film Wakanda Forever. Overall, I did enjoy it, though it w...

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 Well October has been a bumper month.  It started off with a long overdue catch up with Soo when we took ourselves off to the university owned Harcourt Arboretum. We had a lovely day moochin...

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 So September. The weather finally broke – Huzzah. Being fair skinned I’ve never been very good in heat, but throw the menopause into the heady mix, and it’s a one way ticket to meltsville...

http://missmagpiemusings.blogspot.com/2022/10/september-has-come-and-gone.html

 Hello , hello I’m trying to keep it to at least a monthly round up, better late than never eh?  As it goes I didn’t get up to too much in August so this will be a very brief round up in ...

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 Well since I last blogged the field I quite often walk through when out for some air, has gone from this to this and now this I have been finding life challenging this year, there has be...

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 Tuesday dawned another glorious sunny day so we were down early to have breakfast before taking a stroll down to the harbour as we had a walk planned for the day and Himself wanted to start and...

http://missmagpiemusings.blogspot.com/2022/05/vikings-and-pilgrims-or-east-kent-coast.html

 Hello and thank you for sticking with me despite many silent months. Let's just say life has been challenging, especially at work. On top of the insane workload I got a new line manager in Janu...

http://missmagpiemusings.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-good-sea-fresh-breezes-fine-sands-and.html

 So where was I? November.  November was an odd month, after more than 2 years at home I was back into work for two days a week. We were told one day would be an 'anchor day' when the whole t...

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 In my excitement writing about the Chelsea Flower show I completely forgot to mention I had my second face to face physio appointment towards the end of September, 2 months after the last with ...

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 September continued with me returning from holiday and meeting Soo in Oxford for a long overdue catch up. This saw us taking a walk along the canal tow path to Wolvercote, then managing to get ...

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 So September started with our annual long weekend in Bournemouth. We stayed in a new to us B&B back up on the East Cliff which is our favourite side of the town to stay. The B&B turned out to b...

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 Well I had hoped to at least blog monthly but here I am in October and 2 months behind, I can't believe I used to blog weekly at one time! As usual it's work, we have too many students, like ...

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 July started with us still in semi-lockdown. Himself had announced earlier in the year it would be a good time to finally clear the conservatory of the boxes that have been in there since we mo...

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 So it's no surprise St Ives gets as busy as it does. We had deliberately chosen to go when the kids were still meant to be in school in the hope it would be quiet so it was disappointing to fin...

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