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    Trails

    Went for a walk yesterday and tried out Trails, an iPhone app that uses GPS to plot your walk - or run, cycle or drive. One of the most impressive things I thought was that, after walking for an hour and a half, my battery life was still above 85%. The downside is that you have to leave the app open, but that’s an iPhone thing. After the walk you can download any section of the map and edit individual points of it. And the icing on the cake is that you can import your trail into Google Earth. It really is that easy. Well worth £2.39.

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    Spring

    Finally
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    UK Snow Take 2

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    Driving to Wales on Boxing Day

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    Wet...

    ....and muddy, soaked, squishy, bare, saturated, brown, and just generally miserable.

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    But there is hope...

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    Finally.....

    .... a morning with sunshine in it. Hope it lasts. Bet it doesn’t (not cynical, just realistic).

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    Firle

    Firle is mentioned in the Domesday Book and sits below the South Downs and Firle Beacon. Its wide street is lined with beautiful stone cottages, including a pub, local shop and school. All the essentials then. And did you know that the name for the greengage comes from the Gage family, the inhabitors of Firle Place since the 15th century, one of whom introduced the (green)gage to Britain? So there you go.

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    Draft Excluder - update

    After a few (5) false starts I've finally made a breakthrough. Although there's still a long way to go.

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    The World Below by Sue Miller

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    I loved this book. The possibilities and What Ifs: What if Georgia had gone to live with her grandmother after her mother had died? What if Cath hadn't spent that time in Paris? What if John hadn't sent Georgia to the sanatorium? I loved the flashbacks and the timing of them - I never wanted to be elsewhere in the story and thought the pacing was just right. The characters and their stories were revealed gently and I felt for them and the misunderstandings that shaped their relationships. Great read, especially for a rainy, windy weekend with the fire alight.

    In other news, I right royally c@cked up changing colours in my knitting so have had to start again, again. Third time lucky? Should be ready to keep next Christmas's drafts out.



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