Do we have to go to bed now??
keep away from all pubs this coming wednesday
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Before I leave, just wish to let you know that we have purchased a very pleasing sturdy, brown paper album, with tissue for protecting mounted photos, on eBay. The second Wee Man keepsake album is about to take shape. 
Night night. Sleep tight. x
Our CUCKOOS have arrived. They're blethering up the hill right now .
Sumer is icumen in
Llude sing cuckoo
Bloweth med and groweth sed
And springeth the wood noo.
Sing cuckoo.
Beginning of the first poem in The Oxford Book of English Poetry.
...and a comforting warm-inducing sensation.
The glorious sunsets are about to begin, sending us rushing outside like demented wotsits, camera poised, to capture the moment, and add the image to an album of colour-flooded skies spanning eight years. It's difficult to get enough of a good thing. 
Tiger Balm is all that kept me going during my visit to Thailand when my legs were so swollen the skin began to split. If not for the magic ointment I think my legs may just have exploded!! 
Tiger Balm always reminds me of our time in Singapore, my Mum thought it was a wonder ointment. In fact we spent many a visit to Tiger Balm Gardens which was full of Chinese statues, some of which we found a little scary, but that was 40 years ago 
Its still there
www.yoursingapore.com/content/traveller/en/browse/see-and-do/arts-and-entertainment/architecture/haw-par-villa.html?cmp=brandlaunch_UK_GoogleSEM_U
Definitely summer when the garden beastie bites start to itch and the Tiger Balm is in constant demand! Did some hedging yesterday and some of the wee critters whose homes I was disturbing got cross 
!
Definitely summer when, even though the outside temperature was only 2.7°C when I got up at six, by seven thirty it had gone up by three degrees. And it's still going up under a summer sky.
Definitely summer when I can do a stint of mowing one day and a stint of hedging the next and my chest doesn't hurt later on .
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