Category Archives: Nature

Lockdown 3 – reboot

Posted on January 11, 2021 by deborah @ the magic jug

Everything I read about how the coronacrisis is going confirms my belief that we’re in this for a lot longer than the PM would like to admit. My feeling is that this lockdown is going to take us through till … Continue reading →

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In the time of the virus: mark 2 day 19 (Monday)

Posted on November 25, 2020 by deborah @ the magic jug

Lots of pottering around catching up with household jobs, and cooking. A local walk down to the river and back, this time together. Best of all, another baby (7th grandchild for our friends in Denmark, and their first boy). While … Continue reading →

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Starting as we mean to go on

Posted on January 3, 2017 by deborah @ the magic jug

So – a new year, and plenty of thoughts about how to make the most of it. But before I get to that, two lovely and very different holiday days to start 2017. 1 January turned out to be dreary, … Continue reading →

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Seeing differently: autumn colours in the garden

Posted on October 28, 2016 by deborah @ the magic jug

I went to the National Trust garden at Holt to enjoy the autumn colours before the garden closes for the winter. It was, as ever, a delight.  There were plenty of people there enjoying the good half term weather with … Continue reading →

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The poetry party revisited: Kin, by Deborah Harvey

Posted on June 14, 2016 by deborah @ the magic jug

The previous day I had managed to find and organise a date for us cousins to have our annual gathering – not until the autumn, but better late than not. I was sitting finishing off the last knitting on the … Continue reading →

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April adventure: Walking the Capital Ring

Posted on April 22, 2016 by deborah @ the magic jug

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”. I don’t know much about Samuel Johnson, but he certainly had that right. We both thought we knew London pretty well.  It turns out that we (still) only … Continue reading →

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Signs of interest

Posted on March 15, 2016 by deborah @ the magic jug

Last week we had another free day and decided on a new (to us) walk: from Bath to Bristol on the River Avon path all the way.  We’ve walked from Bath to Bristol before.  We’ve walked a few sections of … Continue reading →

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Allotment update: December

Posted on January 19, 2016 by deborah @ the magic jug

December was a wet month.  Fortunately for us nowhere near as wet as for those poor souls living in the north of England and in Scotland who experienced flooding (and are still living with it), but definitely wet.  I limited … Continue reading →

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Climate change, Paris, and me

Posted on December 15, 2015 by deborah @ the magic jug

“Fine words butter no parsnips”.  A phrase I first came across many years ago in a Jane Austen novel (Northanger Abbey??), and oh so true. The agreement made in Paris this weekend was momentous, but only if it is followed … Continue reading →

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Confession time: our front garden

Posted on July 30, 2015 by deborah @ the magic jug

Oh dear.  It’s not a place to feel proud of.  It’s most definitely a ‘work in progress’, a space for improvement.  Not a pretty sight.  I did warn you! The bare bone are there, but all we have at the … Continue reading →

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