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    health and efficiency (and maple syrup)

    Well the anticipated quiet week never materialised thanks largely to the cricket, but a fine time was had by all and thanks to the resultant onslaught the even-more-anticipated New Boiler has finally been installed at the flat! And thank God for that (not least because it gave me a rest and a chance to spend a couple of days curled…

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    bring the noise…

    Monday morning again, and today brings something of a mini anniversary in that it was on this very day last year that I first came along to see my flat after spotting it on Rightmove, or the outside of it at least – I still have the photos in my phone! As most know, it was definitely a move for…

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    back by the sea!

    Hello! I’ve now been back in Scarborough for a week and as anybody who has ventured outside today will know, the heatwave, although not quite on the London scale, has yet to let up with the predictable exception of today, when (having worked on Saturday) I’d half-planned a trip to the beach. Obviously. Taking up where I left off, I…