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HELLO!! Welcome to our website! We are building it a little at a time as life hurtles on. It’s a work in progress and we can’t wait to keep adding- like a fixer-upper house, I suppose.
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As a little girl schoolwork made sense to me so quickly that I didn’t want to work hard at it. Instead I read grown up books, did tomboy stuff, and fought with boys if they called me “just a girl”. My mother thought I could make something of my life if only I studied a…
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It was around 1am when I found out he had passed away. We called him Rector. Well, more precisely, Rector Sir. He was a Doctor in the city where I grew up. Among other things he had set up a local hospital, and a school. Our school.
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It was one of those cold autumn afternoons some weeks ago. We were sitting around an open fire; book in hand, lost in the narrative: Sounds fabulous, doesn’t it? Yeah, sounds fabulous, feels: bloomin’ freezin’! Yep, we’d turned off the heating to save money and here we were sitting outside burning wood and paper! As I was about…
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I used to have this Sunday afternoon ritual, if at home- a piece of dark chocolate truffle, freshly brewed espresso & catching up with my favourite blogs. While John and I were planning our mature student life we didn’t think I would have to let go of stuff like this. In any case, I would have reiterated,…
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Our last post was more than a year ago! You must be expecting me to say, “Where did the time go?” I know exactly where it went! *makes a sour face* My life as a mature student was insufferable to begin with: slow, sans any skill, and with an overabundance of time. And I, the productivity fanatic wasted every…
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Meet Joy Jar: A tradition we kickstarted to cope with the extremes of 2013. By mid-year we had already experienced a couple of fantastic highs and an awful lot of terrifying lows. So, we started to fill up this old sweetie jar with mementos of whatever made us happy this year – from Suravi’s first…
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(John) Rent or buy, looking for that perfect place is a headache of mammoth proportions. We wanted to rent, which had its own set of issues. Landlords with strange demands, houses with bullet holes in them, or a troll living in the cellar! All that time spent looking for properties online – I finally found Zoopla to be the most…
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John and I had initially set this blog up to share our lives with friends & family who are spread across the globe. After all life’s stories are only half lived unless you share them with a loved one, preferably over a beverage! Then a year passed as life decided it did not like my…
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