Boingboing

@boiboing (13153)

Northampton, England

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Tales of the Village - How much is that kitty in the window?

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 14 Jul 19

Our cat Milo likes to spend a lot of time at the village's recycling shop. It's a great place and Nick, the guy who runs it, adores our boy. Milo gets himself into trouble and has already got himself locked in the toilet at the...

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Tales of the Village Next Door - knocking on doors

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 5 Jul 19

If you've read my recent posts, you might know I'm currently helping a local guy in his campaign to get elected to the local District Council. My husband has been off work for about 10 days holiday and we've either been delivering...

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Tales of the Village ............and I would walk 500 more.

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 3 Jul 19

After Monday's marathon leaflet sessions, we were both quite exhausted but a long hot bath and a good night's sleep saw us up and ready to walk again on Tuesday. We're dropping leaflets door to door for the up-coming district...

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million step challenge

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Tales of the Village - I would walk 500 miles......

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 1 Jul 19

Today is the 1st of July and it's the first day of the Diabetes UK 'Million Step Challenge' which is designed to (not surprisingly) raise money for Diabetes UK but also to make those of us who sign up get out and get moving...

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million step challenge

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Meeting New Old Friends

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 18 Jun 19

I've not been here in ages. I lost my job about 6 months ago, thought I'd want to be rattling on about it on here, but soon realised I didn't want that at all, and I went to ground. Rumours of my total disappearance are slightly...

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The Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round ALLLLLLLL DAY LONG

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 6 Feb 19

Morocco day 2: Collecting the missing bag. EasyJet - or in this case Not-At-All-EasyJet - didn't put our bag on the plane from London to Marrakech and because Moroccan airports won't release bags to couriers for them to be...

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The holiday that hasn't gone as planned

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 4 Feb 19

Last summer I booked a holiday for myself and my husband, my sister and her partner, and my friend Gill and right now I'm on the first full day in Morocco. It's fair to say it's all been a bit sub-optimal up to now. To start with...

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Tales of the Village - being wrong when you think you're in the right

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 26 Jan 19

Our village supermarket is a cause of a lot of traffic controversy due to the parking area not being big enough for the number of people who want to use it. This leads to some terrible parking on the roads nearby, and sometimes to...

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The Favourite - it's possibly not what people are expecting

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 23 Jan 19

One thing the British film industry has long been famous for is historic period drama. The world over people seem to LOVE a good 'frock flick' - lots of lavish settings, amazing clothes and jewellery, and all the characters...

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Revolution in the Garden

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 22 Jan 19

I have a daily appointment with a handsome young man. He's a red Cocker Poo called Ralph and he lives two doors away. His family work or are out at school most of the day so I drop in each morning to let him run around the garden,...

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Changing our plans for tomorrow

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 21 Jan 19

It's my husband's birthday on Wednesday but he's working all day. Tomorrow (Tuesday) is his day off so I proposed we go out for the day and suggested we head to Oxford. It's only about an hour away and the museums and restaurants...

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Why Marie Kondo would have her work cut out with my friend

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 21 Jan 19

I went to a 'reunion' of some online friends this weekend and we got onto the topic of decluttering. You could be forgiven for not realising if you actually saw my house, but I'm actually a big fan of the Japanese tidying guru...

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Dry January - Half way through

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 16 Jan 19

For the past five or six years, we've given up alcohol in January. It's a campaign known as 'Dry January' which encourages people - even light drinks like my husband and I - to just give our bodies a good rest and not drink...

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Tales of the Village - convenience factors

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 15 Jan 19

We have a small hardware store in the village. Actually that's a lie, it's really not so small but compared to all the chains of mega-stores that are more typical these days, it's quite a small affair. I've long believed that if...

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Tales of the Village - Helicopters and a stabbing

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 10 Jan 19

I live in the countryside in a large village where very little of any great importance tends to happen. Mostly villagers get worked up about poor parking and people not picking up dog poo. They can rant for England on both those...

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Pass it on - practical recycling

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 9 Jan 19

My neighbour is a widow. She lost her husband just over 2 years ago and she gets rather nervous about leaving her bungalow unoccupied when she visits friends. So for Christmas I gave her a set of timers that can switch lights on...

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Tales of the Village - a short walk

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 8 Jan 19

My neighbour says she ate far too much over Christmas and she MUST take more exercise, so I challenged her to meet me for a walk this afternoon. I didn't force her to do my standard 'loop' of the village which takes about half an...

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It's curtains for the kitties

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 6 Jan 19

When we got our kittens in May 2017, they were such sweet little things. Quickly though they developed very naughty habits - the most annoying of which was running up the curtains. About 18 months ago we had to take down the...

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Mobile Phone Confusion

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 4 Jan 19

I've been lucky to not have needed a mobile phone contract for a very long time - at least for the last 13 years or so. I'm not a bit user and unlike many people, I never saw the need to carry two phones - one for work and one for...

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Long Time No See

Boingboing @boiboing (13153) • Northampton, England 3 Jan 19

New Year and new me - or rather after newly 'redundant' me. Which for those of you who don't know the term, means my job disappeared in yet another company reorganisation (I think we were running at a rate of 3-4 per year - a...

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