15th Oct – Thought it would be easy to change my blog header, but, searching for a new photo to suit the long rectangle form, I found only one that had an interesting horizontal slice.\u00a0 Still, it’s now in place and reminding me of a very good day I once spent in Collioure, France.<\/p>\n
16th Oct – Today I was pleased to see high up in my spruce tree an adult magpie and its fluffy-chested baby.\u00a0 It was some consolation to know she had one left after my dog killed her other chick last week.\u00a0 Bad dog.<\/p>\n
17th Oct – At a student’s house today, her spoodle, a good dog, was sitting in a leather armchair like a person, its elbow leaning on the arm of the chair.<\/p>\n
18th Oct – On the ancestry site today I found photos of my great-grandparents!<\/p>\n
19th Oct – Asked a 12-year old student, a new migrant, to invent a bug and name it with a made-up name.\u00a0 She called it Justin Bieber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
15th Oct – Thought it would be easy to change my blog header, but, searching for a new photo to suit the long rectangle form, I found only one that had an interesting horizontal slice.\u00a0 Still, it’s now in place and reminding me of a very good day I once spent in Collioure, France. 16th … <\/p>\n