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Hylands Estate

How lucky are we to have Hylands Park?   Chelmsford is truly blessed to have this jewel in the crown and credit to Chelmsford City Council

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A new normal

I wouldn’t say I’m bored but yesterday I sorted the herbs into piles so that they are no longer mixed. In hindsight I think it’s

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A Whale in Clacton

I saw this headline in today’s press and it caught my attention because I thought to myself I’ve seen a few distressed Whales in Clacton

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WhatsApp

Who likes a WhatsApp joke? I’ve decided that WhatApp gives me more laughs than almost any place else. It’s probably the last place on earth

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A Trip to Tesco’s.

I’m a Tesco Home Delivery kinda guy (sorry Ed!) I love my little phone app and that at any time, anywhere, I can just add

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No Shit Sherlock

Good news as the Police report that there has been a 25 per cent drop overall in crime in the past four weeks of lockdown.

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Playtime

This is playtime in a school in France as the schools come out of lockdown! Well that certainly looks like fun doesn’t it? Hide and

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Rediscovering Old Practices.

So, inspired by Tracie’s trimmed bush and G&T breakfast, I got thinking about what new delights I have discovered during lockdown.  I am really loving

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Unconditional Love

When you are a Hammer and your first Grandchild is a Gooner, by order of his dad, but you still couldn’t love him any more

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VE Tanks

It’s easy to miss stuff in Chelmsford at the moment as a result of us being confined largely to our homes. On a rare trip

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That Sinking Feeling

Ok, so another 3 weeks in Lockdown. I get it Boris, I really do, but when you said there would be a gradual relaxation of

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Love Island

At last a positive comes from this wretched Corvid-19, they have cancelled the next series of Love Island.  I’ve not watched a single episode of

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Day 44 of Lockdown

Ok call  me Joe Tiger King.  I have a serious amount of body hair, I’m a short back and sides kinda guy normally.  Us Deakin’s do have very

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The Magnificent NHS

I’ve spent more time than I would’ve liked at Broomfield Hospital of late.  Firstly my mum had a fall and broke her pelvis for a

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In my shed

How’s everyone coping with the lockdown? I was coping quite well early on, the garden is looking amazing, the house as tidy as it’s ever

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