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  1. Weekend Photo: Jaunty Hawthorn

    My favourite survivor hawthorn tree on our local walk at the hillfort, still hanging on at it's precarious angle but now in winter mode, all...

  2. the return of scribblans

    Here's the story of this blog. So far. I set it up using Scribbles. I named it 'blogbear' at first. I was happy with that....

  3. I have another new name

    I had a video call with my sister yesterday. She was looking after her 3 year-old grand-daughter, my great-niece, and was trying to explain to...

  4. current status report

    So if I'm currently not doing 'too much' (as per docs advice) and not writing anything at the moment, what am I doing all day?

  5. a little hibernate

    I don't have an inflated enough opinion of myself to think that many people will miss me. However, I don't want anybody that might be...

  6. why am I so tired?

    I haven't blogged for a while. This is mainly because I am very tired. Why am I very tired? Well, let's see if we can...

  7. home now

    Things can move quickly in the health service sometimes. The fastest it moves is when they've decided they need the bed you are taking up...

  8. I'm inside again

    Yay, in hospital again. I've done a lot of hospitaling over the last three or four years. It's nothing to do with the most recent...

  9. weekend photo - the view south

    From a favourite north Cornwall clifftop walk. This is looking south towards Boscastle and Tintagel. Padstow is around 25 miles away on the distant horizon.

  10. wobbly moments

    I had a moment yesterday. A touch of the OhFuckingHellItsAllGettingABitTooMuchNow's. I was taking the dog for her longer walk of the day at a local...

  11. weekend photo - airfield clouds

    I like a nice cloud. This is at the abandoned but well-grazed WW2 airfield at Davidstow, Cornwall, where the sky is massive. Often you can't...

  12. for your comfort and convenience

    No, the blog does not now have public conveniences. But it does have an added convenience. This is just a brief post to direct readers...

  13. fooled by freewriting

    new habitsStarting new habits to try to improve some aspect of my life is not a problem. Trying to maintain any of them beyond a...

  14. diagnosis: grounded

    I love it when you are leaving at the end of your consultation with the GP with one hand on the door handle and his...

  15. anxiety

    The doctors surgery texted me just twenty four hours after my echocardiogram scan. They said they had received the report from the scan, and asked...

  16. ultra scanned

    Last week the hospital had called me to arrange an appointment for an ultrasound echocardiogram scan. Unlike the pregnant women used to having their belly's...

  17. blog title change

    Up until today, I've been using the title 'Blogbear' for this blog. The eagle-eyed reader, whichever one of you that is, will possibly have spotted...

  18. struggling for peace

    There's no place of real and absolute peace in this mad world now. I am just sitting quietly here on the sofa, escaping a little...

  19. eclipse watching

    We watched the eclipse this evening using a colander. And not just any colander, but a thematically-correct colander with a star shape in it.

  20. dreaming of eagles

    This morning, in the land between fully asleep and the half-awake of time to get up, I was dreaming. This is very unusual for me...

  21. old posts, old uncertainties

    I did something I promised myself I wouldn't do here last night. Luckily, I don't think anyone noticed, and I corrected myself and took it...

  22. about time for a clearout

    "There's stuff in there that has been in there for years," I told J. I was moaning about not being able to fit anything into...

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