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Three years solid blipness!

This is incredible.  Whenever I've resolved at New Year to keep a diary it's lasted...  maybe a month.  Thanks to M who introduced me to Blip. Regardless of the current troubles, which are surely transient if only we'd give HQ some time and peace, the Blip concept is still just perfect.  I'm grateful for both the record of the last 3 years, especially the turmoil of 2014, and for the impact the daily practice has had on my photography.

Additionally, I'd like to say thank you to my audience, be they vocal or silent; regular or sporadic. I could do all this offline but it would have nothing like the feeling it has with sharing it with others known and unknown.

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Most of the day has been given over to inviting the adjoining neighbours round for the afternoon - and the associated encouragement to tidy things a bit this morning.  Being a large sort-of-corner plot with a couple of centuries of evolved borders it's not exactly been clear who our neighbours are; but we have quite a few, some of whom we only met yesterday.

Many came round today and it was nice to both chat and, in a few cases, to introduce some of them to each other.  

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And so we're about to start the Great New Adventure.  2015 is going to be a year like nothing we have experienced. We've done a few sporadic B&B bookings this year; one guest at a time.  When it gets busy and continuous it's going to be a challenge in the kitchen.

We live in the belief that the structural fixes will eventually come to an end.  In some ways that's a bit like nappies. I remember thinking "when you're a teenager you can change these yourself " reassuring myself that there will be an end, one way or another.

There are (I'm hoping) only so many plumbing-related nightmares one can have.  

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However, if hosting guests is anything like as pleasurable as hosting a dozen neighbours today, then let the New Year begin...


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PS.  Looking back one year to "The Undiscovered County" - an allusion to "the future" (recognisable by fans of Star Trek and/or Hamlet). That was an impromptu trip to Malvern to view a potential property (in the picture). In the end the future lay just around the corner of that view.