Rob on October 30th, 2011

Many visitors to Aspen House have noticed the mysterious hooded figure who stands like a silent sentinel overlooking our gravel yard.  Well, if they had gone along this week to Puzzlewood, just outside Coleford in the Forest of Dean, they would have seen another twelve of them lurking spookily amongst the gnarled yew trees and [...]

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Rob on October 26th, 2011

Gosh! More than three weeks since the last blog post . . . but it is Sally’s birthday month, and when distractions follow each other in quick succession, it is difficult to knuckle down to the serious business of composing meaningful pieces of writing.  I could of course tell you about our short break in [...]

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Rob on October 3rd, 2011

Breakfast on the patio yesterday, unexpectedly al fresco, in temperatures that beat anything we have experienced all year, judging by the melting butter . . . And what fine butter it was too!  In frustration at waiting for our pet dairyman (and supplier of wondrous raw Jersey milk and cream) to get into butter making, [...]

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