Author: nealpp

  • Water Widget!

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    I read on the National Trust web site this morning that every household in the UK are entitled to send for a water widget. The water widget easily connects to a shower (one that runs from the mains rather than an electric powered one). The idea is that is mimicks an electric shower by mixing…

  • Fountains Abbey in the fog and cold!!

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    Had a trip up to Fountains Abbey near Ripon, North Yorkshire today. We’d been recommended a trip to see the deer being fed and to take a winter tour around the Abbey. As you can see from the pictures, the weather was cold and foggy, though the snow was thawing it was very slippery and…

  • Header picture

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    I’d love to take credit for the header picture, however, I took it from today’s Bing homepage (www.bing.com). If you’ve not seen it already, Bing (Microsoft’s search engine) has a wonderful picture of the day on which are tailored to the country set within Bing. This is one for 27th December in the UK. I’ve…

  • Boxing Day

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    Scene from the bottom of the church path this morning. Posted from WordPress for Windows Phone

  • Blondie “We Three Kings”

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    A terrific Christmas offering from Blondie (from 2009):  

  • Winter glory

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    Had a wander to get the Christmas veggies from the farm stall in East Ardsley this morning. Nice!! Posted from WordPress for Windows Phone

  • Blog move!!

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    My blog has now moved to http://packardnet.homedns.org and is housed on my own server. This is because hopefully the Packard version of Springwatch (using a nestbox camera) will be broadcasting in the spring and it needs to have a direct connection from the TV card to t’internet. I’ve also taken the opportunity to move to…

  • Christmas cake 2010

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  • Freezing York

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    Bus and trained it to York for a bit of a day out and some Christmas shopping. Absolutely freezing, but not too busy and a winter wonderland over the countryside on the train. Also visited York Minster which I’d not been to for ages (though Anne had been earlier in the year when she had…

  • Posada

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    This year at church we’ve decided to have a go at a Posada. This is a Mexican idea where Mary, Joseph and the donkey they are on travel to different homes in the Parish before arriving at Church for Christmas. Originally the idea was that children were to travel around people’s houses, but obviously this…