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Furlough Day One Hundred and Seventy Maybe…

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, May 05, 2020Tue, May 05, 2020
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How are you all holding up then? I have to admit I am still all good, I mean everyday is a Saturday on some strange […]

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Furlough Day 4 – 10

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, April 14, 2020Tue, April 14, 2020
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OK we have reached the end of the first week proper and taking into account the weekends themselves have hit the end of day 10. […]

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Furlough Day 3

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, April 06, 2020Tue, May 05, 2020
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Is it me or do we seem to be living through the start of an end of the world book? You know the sort “It […]

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By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, March 28, 2020
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OK then it has been more than a while since I last wrote anything at all, and in that time it seems that my website […]

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Pugs & Poo

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, October 20, 2018
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So, I have been away from writing for quite some time. The bit of my brain where the creative juices flow from has sort of […]

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A Mini to Spain Part 4.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, March 04, 2018
  • Musings

It was a dull grey late winter morning when the tyres started turning on the tarmac heading towards Portsmouth from Northamptonshire. The engine was ticking […]

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A Mini to Spain Part.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, February 25, 2018
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With the challenge accepted the hunt was on for a decent little mini that would be taken to southern Spain as a surprise 40th Birthday […]

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Dear Janice.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, February 15, 2018
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Dear Janice, It would appear you would like to play online games especially Bingo. Now I understand we all need a hobby in life to […]

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A Mini To SPain Part 2

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, February 15, 2018
  • Musings

For a short while I worked in Southern Spain on the Ports as a Shipping agent. I loved the job but like all good things […]

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A Mini To Spain Part 1.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, February 13, 2018
  • Musings

A Mini To Spain. For those of you that may not have noticed I like to rebuild things. I am not saying I do it […]

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Puppy Perspective

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, February 06, 2018
  • Musings

I think we should live life like a puppy. Seriously everything from a puppies perspective is fantastic. Have you ever seen anything else that is […]

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Puppy Performance.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, January 19, 2018
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A couple of weeks into the whole “Stupidly broken my foot” thing now and I can honestly say I am going a little stir crazy. […]

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A Hell of a Way to Start!

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, January 07, 2018
  • Musings

Well folks, we are at the end of the first week into 2018 and to say the last twelve months have been a challenge would […]

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In Remembrance

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, November 11, 2017
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The soldier stood and faced his God, which must always come to pass. He hoped his shoes were shining, just as brightly as his brass. […]

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WEEK 15 & I am stupid.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, July 10, 2017
  • Musings

Honestly why do I do these things to myself? I think that deep down somewhere in there I am some sort of sycophant.Oh I am […]

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WEEK 13

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, June 29, 2017
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We are already well into week 13 of the hair growing now and I am beginning to look like a yeti! As always please drop […]

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#yetismith Week 2 & Week 3

By Nicky SmithPosted on Thu, April 13, 2017
  • Musings

Well good morning to you all! We fast heading towards the end of the first month of me not cutting the hair on my head […]

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Week 1

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, April 03, 2017
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Well I have made it to the end of week one of “growing my hair for a year”. It’s already itching and a mate has […]

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Hair Growing…

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, March 29, 2017
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I have sat here for the last ten minutes trying to figure out how to write this and I am still none the wiser so […]

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Grieving.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, March 15, 2017
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I have a tale to tell but I don’t know the best way to put into words that would do it justice. To start with […]

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Kazzie

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, March 03, 2017
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I took a walk today, wondering how to say goodbye.Through the fields in the rain and across muddy styles as I walked I thought about […]

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Just Bugger.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Tue, January 31, 2017
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That horrifying moment that you realise the file containing the book you have been writing for 18 months has disappeared from every electronic gizmo you […]

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Richards Stag Do Part 2.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, January 20, 2017
  • Musings

We last left the opposing teams all set at their respective bases counting down the time until the shout of “GO” was shouted out. The […]

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Richards Stag Do…Part 1

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, January 15, 2017
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My legs ache. I don’t think deciding that it was time to start swimming a few times a week to get back into shape just […]

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Merry Christmas

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, December 24, 2016
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Merry Christmas Folks.

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BUTTS ROAD

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 11, 2016
  • Musings

Made me giggle…

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Rails & Roofs.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 04, 2016
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As most of you already know we bought a house in the spring of this year, lets say it needs a little work. Not to […]

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Teabag Mountain Result.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 04, 2016
  • Musings

I lost.

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Teabag Mountain.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sun, December 04, 2016
  • Musings

There is a Teabag Mountain challenge in my house at the moment. When the lid falls off the loser has to take it all out […]

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First Pics.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Wed, October 19, 2016
  • Musings

I have always enjoyed taking photos. It helps to focus the mind as well as en-capture the wonders of the world we live in. There […]

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Puppy’s

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, October 01, 2016
  • Musings

I put this up on my facebook page and now for some reason my daughters are not talking to me? So my daughter Jade keeps […]

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Photography.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, September 16, 2016
  • Musings

I do enjoy a bimble around the countryside but by far my most favourite place to be is in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Now […]

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The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt 6

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, September 16, 2016
  • Musings

It has been a long long time since I have pushed my body way past it’s comfort zone. I walk a great deal and like […]

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The Bucket List. Mt Snowdon Pt 5

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, September 10, 2016
  • Musings

When you are walking up a steep hill or mountain you do tend to just keep looking down towards your feet. The main reasons for […]

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The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt.4

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, September 02, 2016
  • Musings

As we started out on the final section of our climb we thought that our limbs were already aching from our sea level climb, we […]

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The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt 3

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, August 29, 2016
  • Musings

The sun was reaching towards its peak now in the cloudless blue skies. It felt like the higher we climbed the stronger it got and […]

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The Bucket List. Mount Snowdon Pt 2.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, August 27, 2016
  • Musings

The first quarter of a mile along the flat and level tarmac road went well enough with us starting to find our walking rhythm right […]

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The Bucket List. Mt Snowdon Pt 1.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Sat, August 27, 2016
  • Musings

The bucket list phrase is bounced around a great deal these days and mostly folks say what they would like to do before their number […]

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Fixing something different.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Mon, August 08, 2016
  • Musings

The toilet has been leaking on and off for a couple of weeks now but it really has got worse over the last few days. […]

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I’m Done.

By Nicky SmithPosted on Fri, August 05, 2016
  • Musings

Mobile phones, love em or hate em it would look like they are here to stay whether we like it or not, but where would […]

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