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Frances, Stew and Baby Phoebe are flying to Canada tomorrow. On my advice they've booked a hotel room down in Luton for tonight. This means that tomorrow's car journey to Heathrow Airport will be much shorter and thereby far less stressful than it would have been. To facilitate their journey even further, this afternoon I took mama and the heavenly babe to a "Costa" coffee shop at Sutton in Ashfield, close to the M1, twenty miles south of Sheffield. There we met up with Stew whose workplace is close by. Assisting in this way meant that Stew did not have to factor in his usual journey back to Sheffield. They could just carry on south. This morning, I was able to fit in a two hour country walk in familiar territory close to the village of Hathersage in The Hope Valley. It was a beautiful early autumn day - so clear and colourful and fresh. I took several pictures of a farm called Broadhay and three of those images accompany this blogpost. Just as I was setting of...

  It’s been a funny old day all told. I went to a funeral today where all the pall bearers ( male and female ) were wearing fluffy pink boas The coffin was carried out of the church to the graveside to the tune of  Big Spender By Shirley Bassey It suited the character of the guy who had died. During the service my colleague , who must have thought I needed a tissue delved into her handbag and offered me a sanitary pad, which flummoxed me just a little. What would Thora Hird do in such a situation ?  I thought quickly And didn’t burst into my usual go to of schoolboy chuckling Yes it’s been a funny afternoon all told. I’ve just been talking to my neighbour old Trefor , who was out for his daily walk. He’s 97 so “ old” seems somewhat of an understatement , but he’s still going strong and had just walked 2 miles up and around the Gop without stopping.  As we chatted over the garden gate another villager passed and stopped his car. He has a welsh terrier an...

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