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Fiona
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Always busy doing something

parkrun ED, crochet, Archie the springer spaniel, nature, word games, church & choir, gardening, Mum of teen, drinking wine, let me know if I missed anything!
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December 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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December 7th and I’ve finished day 3 of my crochet blanket Advent Calendar. Starting to get the hang of mosaic crochet now 🧶
A strip of red and yellow mosaic crochet blanket, folded so you can see the red circles on the right side and the stripes on the wrong side.
December 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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At 9pm on December 6th I have finally finished day 2 of my crochet Advent Calendar 😬 🧶
A strip of red and yellow mosaic crochet, with the instructions behind.
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Today’s #parkrun pics from our “wear a hat” themed 750th event today at Forest of Dean. Amazingly we had a tourist who was doing his 750th parkrun, well done Dave and thank you for bringing chocolates to share! Thank you to @chris8238.bsky.social for the fab photos.
A middle aged woman in leggings, fluorescent yellow top and green 250 milestone vest running through the forest, smiling and waving. Both feet are off the ground! Archie the brown and white springer spaniel running towards the camera, a stick in his mouth. The start, with lots of runners wearing hats setting off into the forest. There were a lot of bobble hats, beanies and caps, several Santa hats and a turkey. Our visitor Dave who did his 750th parkrun today, with his wife and a splendid pair of hats. Dave is wearing shorts and a blue 500 milestone tshirt plus a blue and white striped bobble hat with a large red white and blue pompom. His wife is wearing a red, yellow and green bucket hat, yellow jacket and black leggings.
December 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Good morning and happy parkrunday 🏃‍♀️

It’s our 750th event today, we’ve a full roster and after yesterday’s rain expect a muddy course. Trail shoes, waterproof socks and running jacket at the ready. 🌧️ 🏃‍♀️ 🤿
December 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Today’s pop of colour: red holly berries
A cluster of maybe 20 red holly berries on a twig, plus the trademark spiky leaves.
December 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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December 5, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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How gorgeous are these beech leaves? Even brighter in situ against the dark grey evergreens
A stem of bright yellow-red beech leaves. More beech leaves, a thin branch growing from a grey brown trunk. Behind are tree trunks and the ground is strewn with fallen leaves.
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Bright pops of colour on our walk today: birch leaves and gorse flowers
Leaves on a birch stem. Some are gold, some still have green in the center and yellow at the edges of the leaves, which are roughly triangular in shape. Golden gorse blooms at the tip of a stem of spiky green leaves.
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Just chilling out with crochet and Beethoven after a very busy (and long) day at work
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Royal Northern Sinfonia & Nil Venditti
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
December 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Today’s pop of colour: silver birch leaves catching the sun
Golden leaves on a silver birch tree with clear bright blue skies behind.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Day 1 of my crochet Advent Calendar and I’ve made a yellow strip of blanket. Took far longer than it should’ve. Might not have time for anything else this December
An Advent calendar consisting of 25 numbered box drawers maybe 8cm square arranged in a grid of 5x5. The colour of the boxes gradually changed from green at the bottom to lilac to pink to orange at the top and there are sparkly star designs on the boxes. There’s also a pair of doors that can be fastened in front of all the drawers. A strip of yellow crochet and a crochet hook on an open magazine. There’s also a rainbow striped yarn bowl.
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Today’s walk, mostly in the rain. We spotted some wildlife. Archie also went swimming and came home very wet and muddy
Frilly fungi on the end of a log. A solitary wild boar on a forest track. Behind it are small fir trees with a really tall plantation behind that. Thankfully it was a reasonable distance from us and after watching us for a minute it ambled off into the firs. Archie the brown and white springer spaniel sopping wet from the stream, poised to chase his stick. Gorgeous autumn colours in the wood despite the rain. Bracken like burnished copper and bright yellow beech leaves.
December 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Ist of December so my mother is baking gingerbread men, and I’m really not sure if there’s something wrong with her oven or this is some kind of death threat.
Rather crudely baked gingerbread men, armless in one case and misshapen. Bizarrely, my mother has decorated them with thick lumps of icing and sequins.
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Foolishly cut into a large crown prince squash to make soup for lunch without considering the amount of space (not) available in the fridge for the other 3/4’s.
Two pieces of crown prince squash on a chopping board. A half squash closer to the camera, with duck egg blue skin, apricot flesh and seeds in the middle still. Behind a quarter piece. Teaspoon for scale - the squash was probably as tall as a teaspoon, and had a teaspoon length radius.
December 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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So it appears the sound wasn’t turned on during the livestream this morning so we will never hear how well / badly I sang the Advent prose. I can’t find the right version, but it went something like this
A page of chant, the chorus and first verse of the Advent prose. It’s not written in conventional musical notation.
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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My goodness what a busy day. Did Advent in style at church, D played with the band for the Christmas Fair, moved lots of logs, roast dinner. Happy New Year to those who celebrate ✝️
November 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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The boy and his mates are going to a party up the road tonight. But first, lads pub at our house 😳

They’re chatting away, in the other room, not sure they’ll actually get to the party 🤭
November 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM