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Operation Cheeky… The Escape Is On.

Day 2. Second World War fever has definitely taken over. Appel call this morning was a glum affair. Binky and the Mole were chatting quietly over their crunchy nut cornflakes while the ‘Collaborator’ strode over to Rudy, the commandant to put the finishing touches on today’s ‘joint-organised’ activity. Spent the morning trying to avoid the [...]
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Hooray, Hooray It’s a Jolly Holiday! NOT!

Well, after a start so early even the dawn chorus were still clearing their throats, we arrived at what Daddy was by now calling ‘Greenacres – Robin’s Yorkshire Stalag Luft 4’. We arrived, a little while after Uncle Jake and Aunty Emma, who absolutely loves this place by the way, it was her idea! It [...]
Greenacres Awaits.

Exciting news. I… no wait. It seems at the moment that I start every week with exciting news. This is becoming so regular it is almost boring, rendering the whole ‘exciting news’ thing as empty as a Cumbrian reservoir. So, suffice to say, I shall just quietly and calmly tell you, in a small and [...]
These Toys were bought by: Daddy, Mummy, Other People
Uncle Jake & Aunty Emma Come to Visit Tippi. Whoopee!

We went for a quiet visit to the library this morning. Daddy wanted to look at the model of the plans for the new development at the library, where Hornivale council are putting up, loads of stuff, including lots of luxury flats but no new parking spaces. They were supposed to be building a cinema [...]
In this post I played with: Crayola Beginnings Colour Me a Song, John Lewis Car Mobile
These Toys were bought by: Daddy, Mummy, Other People
These Toys were bought by: Daddy, Mummy, Other People
Volcano? What volcano? Eyjafjallajoekull… that’s just made up!

I couldn’t really let this month pass without mentioning the subject that has been on the lips of every coffee drinking gossip monkey in the bohemian jungles of Crouchers Green. No. Not the election… the ‘Volcano’. The inverted commas are deliberate, ‘cos I have a theory that it didn’t really exist. Bear with me on [...]


















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