Living in Lymington

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  • A337, the highway to hell (or just Lyndhurst)

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    I imagine there must have been a blue moon someplace as I feel compelled to write a post, but what about? As it happens I recently had the great fortune to drive north through Brockenhurst, through the switchback which is the Lyndhurst one-way system and onward to the M27. As per normal in the summer,…

  • Sheep hordes

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    Every so often I come across something that reminds me what kind of a place we live in, and makes me glad of it. We were recently making one of our regular visits to Salisbury Hospital to see the resident Fibromyalgia specialist concerning Wife’s ongoing pain management and touching base on any new or improved…

  • Houdini and the Sunroom

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    So we finally found out what a sunroom is really for. Simple really, don’t know why we didn’t cotton on sooner! It is of course for hedgehogs or hedgepigs as they are apparently known in the Antipodes. No, me neither, but Lodger who hails from those parts calls the little spiny guys that and being…

  • Remembering WWII in the New Forest

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    There’s great popularity these days for looking back, whether to value antiques, trace roots or honour those who have gone before. Fortunately though

  • Moving to Lymington

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    Around this time each year, that is just at the end of the holiday season, I get emails from some of the people you see gazing into the estate agents windows whilst visiting this fair town. For some reason or other people decide that the character, position and general lifestyle amount to somewhere they would…

  • Olympic Gold

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    So here it was and there it went. London 2012 is now but a memory except on the BBC web site and several million personal video recorders. And I am bereft! Although it seems the vogue among the

  • Geoffrey Dashwood Exhibition – St Barbe Museum Lymington

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    It ‘s a strange thing. When you live in a place you don’t tend to take the time to go to interesting places around the area.

  • Can you get Milford on Sea on the NHS?

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    Thing about ‘summer’ this year is you have to Seize the Fish when the opportunity presents itself. OK I know Carpe Diem means seize the day, but any mention of Carp just begs for a deliberate mis-translation in what passes for my mind. So Seize the Fish it is. Spread the use, you know it…

  • Charity Fashion Show 21 June Bournemouth

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    Now for someone as naturally stylish as me, it’s great to have this recognised by style professionals. In this case it is Kiki’s Boutique

  • Paper Beats Card

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    As a techie I am almost too aware of the limitations of the technology which we have come to rely so heavily on, but this past week it became even clearer if that were possible. Most people these days have a plastic card or two, you seem to get them for just about everything, libraries,…