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Vet’nry call up – nursing my very sad Sproodle pup
I knew that it wouldn’t be the last time I donned my veterinary boots when I popped them back on the welly rack last year. Having successfully diagnosed grass seed in my dog’s ear, applied ear drops in almost death defying circumstances (Dottie really didn’t take kindly to the ear drops), quickly followed by removing a tick from my friends’ dog’s eyelid, I realised that my latest vocation as a…
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Othello at The National Theatre and in your sitting room!
60 years of The National Theatre! I have never known the South Bank without that crazy fabulous Brutalist building that inspired so much of my youth and childhood dreams of becoming an actor. When I was at university, we formed a theatre company called “The Smashing Theatre Company” (terrible youthfully exuberant name but we can’t have been that terrible because Dame Judy Dench agreed to be our patron – this…
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Sarah Raven’s garden – The Return
I was lucky enough to be invited back to visit Perchill by my best friend in the whole wide world Sarah Raven. We hadn’t seen in each other in such a long time (the press event last year but she is a very busy lady) and I know we were both looking forward to the catch up. Sadly Sarah was rushed off her feet with cooking, flowering and chatting biodiversity…
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Rural life is not quiet
Can’t a gal (ok…old olden days lady) stalk through her garden in a very old bikini smacking cricket bats together without being arrested? “Don’t make me the mad woman in a too tiny ‘this still fits me and I wore this on my honeymoon’ struggling bikini smashing noisy cricket bats together …who is…about to be…arrested by the police”… I faltered in my magpie abuse as a police car and van…
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Rural life is not quiet
Don’t make me the mad woman in a too tiny “this still fits me and I wore this on my honeymoon” struggling bikini smashing noisy cricket bats together …who is…about to be…arrested by the police”… I faltered in my magpie abuse as a police car and van arrived outside my gate. In ten years I have seen one police car here, this was unprecedented. I knew that my bikini was…
