Fleur

@Fleura (31565)

United Kingdom

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When is a wall not a wall?

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 30 Apr

To me, a wall is a self-supporting boundary built of some solid material such as bricks, stones or concrete blocks. If a continuous boundary is created from living bushes or trees, that’s a hedge (if it isn’t continuous then it’s...

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Tentatively helping

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 29 Apr

Last week, when we were stuck without a car, my friend kindly added me onto her car insurance so I could borrow her car, as I needed to pick up a lot of things that just weren’t feasible on a bicycle. But she did warn me that her...

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Where are all the bees?

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 28 Apr

We are having a glorious few days just now and gardens and roadsides everywhere are filled with blossom, scenting the air. But something is badly wrong. Where are all the bees? Last year and this year there has been a...

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Not back yet!

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 25 Apr

Last month I wrote about how we had dropped our car off for the routine annual MOT test (roadworthiness, basically) and the garage somehow ‘broke’ it. Well guess what – we still haven’t got it back! The first couple of weeks we...

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My bank is rubbish!

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 22 Apr

A couple of weeks ago I made an online donation to a charity appeal. Somehow my details were intercepted by fraudsters who (I later found) attempted to make a series of further payments to some online gambling company I had never...

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Why do people not cycle?

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 18 Apr

The last post was too long to continue so I have had to make this a separate one. When I started on the list of reasons people may have for not cycling, it was far longer then the ‘reasons they do’ list. And one striking aspect...

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Why do people cycle?

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 17 Apr

The other day I visited a friend who I sometimes get together with to play music. Then as I was leaving, her husband arrived. He turned out to be a retired town planner and he is now writing a book about planning for ways to...

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Which is the front?

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 17 Apr

Maybe @JudyEv can help me here… At a country show recently we enjoyed seeing various animals, especially horses but also cattle, sheep and various smaller livestock as well. There was a class for guinea pigs, and there were...

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Be careful what you wish for

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 17 Apr

Before I had children, I sometimes used to pass a playground on my way to work on sunny mornings and see the mothers, or sometimes fathers or grandparents, enjoying the sunshine as they pushed their children on the swings or...

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A knitted model

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 14 Apr

Last week we were away on a family holiday, partly in Norfolk. One of the more remarkable sights we saw was an enormous knitted model of the Royal estate at Sandringham, created by a lady in her 90s. Apparently when her husband...

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The primroses are taking over!

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 14 Apr

Not that I’m complaining, as I love them! But these little spring flowers, which people tend to regard as delicate little plants, are in fact tough survivors given half a chance. As you can see we have allowed them to make...

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A very specialist occupation

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 8 Apr

I’m constantly surprised at the range of services people offer and the things clients hire them to do that they could easily do themselves – things like assembling flat-pack furniture for example. Yesterday we saw a delivery van...

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Useless – but entertaining

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 7 Apr

Some years ago we visited Longleat safari park. Little One was really little then. When we entered the park they gave us a CD to listen to as we drove around. This provided a commentary on the animals we would see, so for example...

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I guess they went above and beyond…

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 5 Apr

I just loved this, I think it’s hilarious! A worn patch of the road surface has been repaired, and the workers have diligently re-painted the appropriate parts of the wording that should be there. In fact you could say they have...

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The last, and now the first

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 5 Apr

A little while ago I discovered that one of our neighbours, a few houses down the road (a quite reclusive older lady who I have only ever seen once) is named Omega. I thought this was unique, I had never come across anyone named...

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It’s the people that make all the difference

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 27 Mar

As I’ve mentioned before I sometimes do events work, generally as waiting staff or stewarding. Some of the events are fun or interesting, and some are more mundane, but I still enjoy going as I only do one or two shifts a week and...

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A handsome young buck!

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 26 Mar

I have heard or read this phrase used as a description of a lively young man in the past – more often in historical contexts it has to be said, rather than in contemporary use – but today I had a visit from the genuine article – a...

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A hardy survivor!

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 26 Mar

Last month I was reading in ‘The Garden’ (the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society) about an old variety of daffodil, Narcissus 'Telamonius Plenus'. Apparently this was thought to have been introduced to Britain by a...

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A concoction of everything they dislike!

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 24 Mar

My partner went shopping a while ago and in Aldi he found these bottles of sauce reduced to 50p so had to buy one – mainly for its entertainment value as he knew the girls would be disgusted, it’s like the distilled essence of...

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Our car is gone!

Fleur @Fleura (31565) • United Kingdom 22 Mar

With apologies to @porwest… Our car really is gone! Yesterday it was at the garage for the annual MOT (Ministry of Transport) test – a basic test of roadworthiness required to be on the road, get insurance etc. One of the...

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