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August 17, 2012October 23, 2012

My Garden in May (old post)

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As this is a (re)new(ed) blog, I’m going to tell you about my garden.  I’ve written blogs about this over the years, but they’ve all gone by the wayside.  We’ve been living in our cottage for 17 years or so and the garden has gone through many cycles; mostly of scruffiness and neglect, through to

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August 17, 2012

Renewed blog – AGAIN!

By Mark Laurence 0 Comment on Renewed blog – AGAIN!

Well I keep moving things around and changing the site, so i tried to move the blog to a different folder and it didn’t work, despite my best attempts a editing the SQL files… sigh!  So i rescued some of my recent posts from the old one and have stuck them back up here; of

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