Monthly Archives: November 2004

Shake, Rattle and….

By Val | Published: November 27, 2004
Saw the doctor yesterday, for my now-regular monthly checkup. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that in the last two months I have acquired diagnoses for angina, high blood pressure and an underactive thyroid. All that’s on top of my existing arthritis. Whoo hoo…. I now don’t feel so guilty about not doing the gardening. Yesterday, [...]
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In Other News…

By Val | Published: November 19, 2004
… Gavin’s cremation was today. Really, one of us here, one of his neighbours, should have been there. But, nobody seemed too enthusiastic. Well, Carol was working, Graham is also working; don’t know about the others yet. We did think of going. But it is miles away, at [...]
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Farewell

By Val | Published: November 14, 2004
Our neighbour Gavin died on Friday. He had been ill for several months, with what was eventually diagnosed as cancer of the osoephegus. He’d been away in hospital for about two months, and died so suddenly and unexpectedly that his family were unable to get to his bedside in time. We didn’t know him [...]
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By Dawn’s Early Light

By Val | Published: November 4, 2004
I was up at dawn this morning – before dawn, in fact. We had a power cut here last night; it came back on just after four this morning. I’d forgotten to turn off our printers and they made a heck of a racket powering up. So I got up [...]
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Sic Transit…

By Val | Published: November 2, 2004
Just had an email from Roy Gillett of the Astrological association, about Transit: At Saturday’s meeting we will be discuss ways of making it available to more and more members. I’m not at all sure I like the sound of that. Though I can’t say exactly why. There have been rumblings amongst the ancient bearded [...]
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So This Is Samhain…

By Val | Published: November 1, 2004
Had a pretty good Samhain gathering last night, around a blazing bonfire here at the Steadings. Not much ritual, but a fair bit of talking, and drinking and eating. Made our wishes over the flames…. It was dry, pity it was cloudy – the few times the Moon showed, She was a wonderful sight. [...]
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