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Around Longtown, upper Monnow Valley
27/5/23 Black mountain ridge sweeps up above us on the west of the beautiful Monnow valley: majestic, gentle. Walk a little way up and turn along for...
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Little Cook!
A cock-eyed chef’s hat and a tired apron all askew, a small wooden bowl and spoon and …
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Never Satisfied!
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] See, Eve with so much, still succumb to feeling she needs something more, and Satan is pleased still to come...
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On the 6500+ km journey, twice
I’m a tiny round egg in the Sargasso sea, and hatch to be leaf-like, on currents I float eastward to a continent very remote, many get eaten, but for...
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Grandpa is the repair man!
… or 'Where is that crevice tool?! …
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Wht a sad time. She seems to
Posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2021
Wht a sad time. She seems to have wanted to do good, and worship, but there seems to have at best been a lack of openness, and enforcing of rituals rather than good Bible teaching and love and fellowship together and with God? Rhiannon
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 26
But the more you think, the
Posted on Thu, 17 Jun 2021
But the more you think, the more you seem to remember of all that has filled those years! Congratulations if it is that anniversary! Rhiannon
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How big is this patch then?
Posted on Thu, 17 Jun 2021
How big is this patch then? It sounds like a very exotic little verge now. Have you a garden as well? Rhiannon
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They are certainly so
Posted on Tue, 15 Jun 2021
They are certainly so beautiful, and the 'pink snow' of town avenues.
The huge displays in Japan seem to be very impressive, and understandably I suppose the tree and its flowers gets a special place in Buddhism and Shintoism.
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My 'Mamgu' wom I wrote about
Posted on Tue, 15 Jun 2021
My 'Mamgu' who I wrote about again recently, lived at Maesteg, and my mother grew up there. I wonder if you will have more about his time in China. I read something that seemed to implicate him in one of the 'opium wars' - ??? Must be difficult...
Read full commentPosted in Maria's Diary 24
Lovely description of your
Posted on Sun, 13 Jun 2021
Lovely description of your walk in the woods, plants and watched hedgehog. Encouraging others to note such detail and appreciate at this time of year. As you say such a wonderful home we've been given, we admire the power and lights around the...
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Thank you. A warning that
Posted on Sun, 13 Jun 2021
Thank you. A warning that saves from danger and points to a good present must be kind! Like calling a child from rushing into the road, and from getting lost, to the way back home! Rhiannon
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A lot of ineteresting detail
Posted on Fri, 11 Jun 2021
A lot of ineteresting detail amongst the mundane of reporting, and that is what makes reading the ordinary accounts of the time worthwhile, and you realise these are real people not just statistics.
They had tresured their time with...
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You describe well the
Posted on Mon, 07 Jun 2021
You describe well the mingling of memories, some clear, some much more vague, coalescing over the years of time as we get older, but various threads emerging! Rhiannon
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Such vafied, responsible work
Posted on Tue, 01 Jun 2021
Such vafied, responsible work he was given. He must have been considered a good investigator and reporter on these matters.
You headed the entry 15 June. But he died 20 June. Did you mean for her to be writing on 25 June? Rhiannon
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