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The danger of dentists and dvds
On Easter Sunday I was given four Easter eggs. This was particularly exciting as we’d made a family pact that we wouldn’t do Easter Eggs this year, but it turns out, I was the only one that stuck to this … Continue reading
A Friday giggle
This week my blog made it over 29,000 hits! That might not be much by ‘real’ blogging standards, especially when you consider that’s over 4.5 years, but I’m pretty stunned. That means either a few good friends have hit ‘refresh’ … Continue reading
Training the neighbours…
My neighbours can be a bit of a challenge. No, that is work language (see how they have trained me?!). My neighbours are a nightmare. And the problem is, I’m slightly scared of them and their very large extended family … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, gardening, Pog Life
Tagged gardening, neighbours, planting, secret baker, sunflower competition
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Smelling flowers in the doctor’s waiting room
I’ve just come back from the doctor’s surgery where I had to wait an hour to see the nurse for an injection that takes around 20 seconds. Normally this would have annoyed me intensely – I’d almost finished my work … Continue reading
Posted in Pog Life
Tagged Doctor's waiting room, interesting lady, random chat, stop and smell the flowers, WW2
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It *was* an emergency…
Sister 2’s boyfriend is really good at baking cakes. He made one a few weeks ago with caramel loveliness in it, and then admitted it was tinned caramel stuff. I love it and admitted that I had a tin in … Continue reading
Posted in Bumpkinsville, Cooking, food, Pog Life
Tagged banana, but i don't care, caramel, commute, commute from hell, trains, unhealthy food
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A Sausage Dog mum and a lack of animal snap
I have a new friend! It’s all very exciting. Ok, that might be stretching the truth a bit, but over Easter there was a reshuffle in the office and new people have been scattered all around me. People who interact … Continue reading
Posted in Pog Life, work
Tagged business coach, Coach H, colleagues, office, oops, professional Pog
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Lessons learned, mostly from Little Pea
I’ve just had the best 10 days. No work, no laptop, and don’t fall off your chair, but I even found the off button to my blackberry (I admit, it took a good 10 minutes to identify) and managed to … Continue reading
Posted in animals, Pog Life
Tagged bad auntie, cooking, lessons of the week, Little Pea, peacock, playground, puddles, time off work, zedonk
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Professional Pog?
I’ve never been one of those hugely ambitious people at work. My goal has always been to be as good as I can at my job without missing out on life. I’ve worked with people who stay in the office … Continue reading
Posted in crochet, Pog Life, work
Tagged business coach, Coach H, crochet chickens, professional Pog, work
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Hanging in there with cakes and caterpillars
It was time for a bit of secret bakering on Monday. My last offering of flapjacks hadn’t seemed too exciting, so I decided to push the boat out and make my Mum’s chocolate spice cake which is a family favourite. … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, food, work
Tagged caterpillar cake, caterpillars, chocolate spice cake, grumpy, secret baker, smiles
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Wig Weirdness
This was going to be a post of the random photos I’ve been taking thinking they may have a home on the blog one day…but haven’t. So I was just going to pop them all in one weird post and be … Continue reading
Posted in animals, cats, crochet, Pog Life, Pog Pictures
Tagged Bradley, Norman cat, weirdness, wigs
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