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Walking, walking, walking….

Still without a car, and likely to remain so for some time. So I’m getting in lots of walking. So long as I keep it to a sensible level, it’s not being too hard. Without a car, shopping is the big problem. There are buses into town from the village, but that’s half a mile […]

So Farewell, Buttercup….

…and we hardly knew ye…. Despite Buttercup being a low-slung Fiat, B would drive it along the most incredibly rough, rocky forest trails. On almost every trip, rocks would bang against the underside. B always dismissed my worries – but the inevitable happened on Sunday. He came home from another forest trip (by himself), with […]