Author: TrickyAndNIcky
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And…relax?
3rd November 2025 I cast my mind back just over a week. The day after the nuptials dawns bright and sunny. I must rise promptly as last night I agreed to let Omar, the lighting guy, in at 8am. We went to bed after 1am and had a very disturbed sleep, but I can’t be…
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Wedding bells part 3 – the final cut
31st October 2025 I know, you’ve heard about this wedding from two different perspectives already, but indulge me in a third: just a snapshot of what we ourselves had to do to make it all go without a hitch. Here goes. Thursday 23 October. It’s two days before the wedding. The tents and tables are…
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Wedding bells part 2 – warts and all
30th October 2025 We both have a huge amount of pride in what we achieved to get Pollards ready and an equal amount of relief that the event we have been building up to for the last year is done and dusted. We have to say a big thank you to the gardening team (including…
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Wedding bells part 1 – the glitz and the glamour
30th October 2025 As regular readers will be tired of hearing, we became the proud owners/temporary custodians of this historic property on 1 October last year. On 2 October we visited Flow, the internet and telephone provider, to arrange a new broadband contract and cancel the landline – both effective from 4 October. We had…
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Sign of the times
22nd October 2025 It was my father’s birthday a couple of days ago he would have been 87. I have been thinking of him a lot. He had a saying “what price can you put on peace of mind?” Over the years this became a bit of a family catch phrase for all manner of…
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Bodge
18th October 2025 I was going to call this post ‘To Bee or Not to Bee Two’, but discarded that in favour of something more snappy. ‘To Bee to Bee Two’ and even ‘2B2B2’ were abandoned as too silly. So. It’s a fortnight since Aaron’s heroic efforts with our wild hive. Hats off to the…
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Comfort arrives
14th October 2025 Yes indeedy, I hope you are all suitably impressed, as you can see from above, we are unpacked. And the photos don’t show the 20+ flat packed boxes we have stored in the shed ready to act as weed suppressant in the grounds. Even better the agents are collecting the packing material…
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Customs cleared
8th October 2025 I spent a bit of last night thinking, overthinking and to be honest worrying about how today was going to pan out. There is a very good saying that 3am is not a good time to make judgements and so it has fared. All in all the anticipation has been the worst…
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Excitement contained
7th October 2025 It’s a big day tomorrow. The haulier is bringing our container to Pollards, at a time yet to be determined, he will drive down the cart road, through the gates. (He has already done a test drive so he is confident of getting it in). Then we have an appointment at 1pm…