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Some stuff can hang around for a long time. I've just passed on a toolbag and surplus tools to my granddaughter who is off to University to study theatre set design and construction. Included was a hammer that used to belong to my grandfather - her great-great-grandfather. (and it has original...

Hope you're going to enter him in the July heat of the 'photo competition.

Appreciation of the numinous is not confined to the religious. As an atheist, I have feelings of awe and wonder as I contemplate the wonders of nature and the universe.

All the land round where I live is owned by the Church Commissioners: one would hope that any wild campers would have their trespasses forgiven .

Sitting at the computer in a corner of Madame's studio when a baby grass snake came to visit. I persuaded it to forgo a life of art and that it would fulfil its destiny better in the wider world outdoors.

It's been back again. Mary's tip about mint essential oil worked well and almost solved the problem. However, I neglected to refresh the make-up pads with more oil and another mouse has had a go, ruining the bag containing the cooking kit in its search- fruitless as I'd removed all the edibles...

One would have expected them to be better prepared. Why am I reminded of the old saying about fishing tackle shops' main business is not about catching fish but catching fishermen?

How will they manage when Armageddon looms?

I see the point of that one. As a favourite, it's in the lead.

Crumbs!

I lit the woodstove the night before last. The excuse was to smoke out the bees in the chimney as per advice but the warmth was welcome.

The Bark Borer ernobius mollis? The powder post beetle was one we looked out for when I worked briefly as a timber infestation surveyor in the 1960's: I never came across any in my patch in the south of England. Most common insect infestation was common furniture beetle anobius puntctatum...

After a 1980s trip to the USA, for many years I carried a dime in a corner of my wallet on the ground that, in the words of the song, if I could spare a dime I was financially OK. Last time I replaced a worn out wallet, it seemed to have disappeared. It doesn't appear to have had any effect on...

Back in the last millennium, my secretary worked part time for some elderly farming sisters. They never paid her any money but she got legs of lamb, chickens, fresh fruit and vegetables. The same was true for other people who gave them their time such as the plumber and other tradesmen. All were...

I was told as a child that stones with holes in bring good fortune. Well deserved!

Thanks for that. Unfortunately our grandson is now too big to send up the chimney.

Yes. Peter Baylis worked for Pathe before going freelance so he had many contacts there and access to their archive. The Time to Remember series was made for ATV but the French StudioCanal now holds the copyright and Talking Pictures got permission from them to screen them. With help from TP and...

Over the last week or so by using the glass and card method we've rescued dozens of bees which have got into our sitting room and then try to escape through a closed and unopenable window. Those we don't rescue die of exhaustion fairly quickly. We have worked out that they are coming down the...

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