Fleur

@Fleura (31371)

United Kingdom

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It’s the people that make all the difference

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • 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 (31371) • 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 (31371) • 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 (31371) • 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 (31371) • 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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A bit of a surprise

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 21 Mar

Last weekend we were staying at our cottage in Wales. Little One was in a single bed in the same room as us, and I had draped my dressing gown over the end of her bed when I went to bed. In the morning I got up first, put my...

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Spring is officially here!

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 20 Mar

Today (or rather, tonight really) is the vernal equinox, one of the two times a year when the day and night are of equal length. And it is considered the start of ‘astronomical spring’ – whatever that means. It really did feel...

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What does ‘the gig economy’ mean to you?

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 19 Mar

Chatting to one of the people I was working with yesterday, I asked what job he did (you might think it was obvious, but many people who work these events just do it occasionally, like me, and do other things the rest of the...

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Where did she put it all?

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 19 Mar

The photo isn't connected, I just didn't have anything appropriate. Yesterday I was working at an event which included a buffet lunch. The hot food was served by the staff (us) but then the guests helped themselves to cold...

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It's as bad as I thought!

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 13 Mar

Every day I click on the little daily tasks in Bing to earn my 5 or 10 points. Generally they say something like ‘learn about something-or-other’ or they have a subject heading. Today one of them said ‘Time management’ and it led...

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Strange behaviour

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 12 Mar

@DaddyEvil talking of hoarding just made me think of other people I knew and their strange behaviour. Once upon a time, a long time ago, two of my student friends shared a house with another young man they knew. As he was the...

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More about unwanted features

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 12 Mar

This follows on from my post about annoying features in my car… The one thing I can’t resolve in our now-shared car, is that with this car, you can’t open the boot (trunk) just by lifting the catch in the ‘old-fashioned’ way –...

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A wish list – or is it a not-wish list?

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 12 Mar

The car I had twenty years ago had few ‘modern’ features. It had wind-up windows, an air-bag for the driver, and no annoying alarms. The doors were unlocked by putting the key in the lock. When that one was sadly written off by...

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Such a peaceful site nowadays

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 11 Mar

Last weekend I went out for a walk with some friends. The place we visited was Greenham Common, which was previously famous throughout the 1980s and 90s as the site of the Women’s Peace Camp. The camp began as a protest against...

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I got it right this time!

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 10 Mar

Third time lucky it seems. My partner tried to do it but couldn’t get it right, and then I had a go, and made it worse! But this time I seem to have succeeded! Although it did take about an hour to unwind and then re-thread the...

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Time to sort this out!

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 10 Mar

We have a rotary washing line outside. It was here when we bought the house and I think it must have been here almost 20 years before that because it’s concreted into the patio that the previous owners created when they revamped...

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Debunking an old wives' tale

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 7 Mar

There is a lot of blurring between ‘traditional medicine’ and ‘old wives’ tales’ and often you just don’t know how much truth there may be in such things. Sometimes for example, use of a herbal treatment may turn out to have a...

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A Mini game

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 7 Mar

My younger daughter ‘Little One’ likes to play a game – well it’s not really much of a game to be honest, but not sure what else to call it. Basically she and her friends try to be the first to spot a Mini (car – see photo). The...

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A new recipe

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 6 Mar

Sometimes I like to try something a little different for dinner. The snag is that Little One is very resistant to trying anything that isn’t purely meat based (she has totally not embraced the ‘plant-based foods’ movement...

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Little annoyances

Fleur @Fleura (31371) • United Kingdom 6 Mar

It’s funny how little things get on your nerves after a while. We currently have a lodger, an Italian mathematician, staying with us for a few months. He’s a lovely chap, very friendly and enthusiastic, clean and tidy and...

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