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Wonderful weather
Grateful for this morning's wonderful and ideal running weather: cool, a little drizzle, no ice and, most importantly, no wind.
Nunnington News December 20
Lack of time thwarted our plans to make this a bumper edition. Instead, we kept it short, publishing only regular articles and news and information about village events and the new pandemic rules. Next month will be very full!
Nunnington News November 20
We dedicated the November edition of the news to remembering those who had died, particularly during the two world wars. We were fortunate to have people in the village and from around the world with long memories or access to family records.
Friendships rediscovered
It has been a surprise and a joy to reconnect with long lost friends - twice - in the last few days.
A Treachery of Spies
This beautifully crafted story of espionage starts in Paris in 1943 and ends with the murder of an elderly woman in the car park of the Gare d’Orléans in 2018.
Nunnington News October 20
For a small village, its surprising how much goes on, from crop rotation to flying tree branches, serendipity to drawing, sloe gin to kite flying.
Times of change
This is a time of year to rise above the dust and mist of change that obscures our higher vision
Vesper Flights
For Helen Macdonald, author of Vesper Flights, swifts seem to her to be ‘the closest thing to aliens on Earth.’
Breaking bread
The wreckage of the table after the last guest has left. Reinforcing friendships and sharing views is so much more important than simply breaking bread together.
Twelve life truths
Author Anne Lamott, often described as 'the people's author', offers these appealing life truths in her TED talk
Elusive happiness
Can we really achieve a permanent state of happiness. Should we even try?
Nunnington News September 20
We devoted this newsletter to all our farmers and growers, now in the midst of a difficult harvest
Cat comfort blanket
A sign of the approaching autumn, I wonder. Cats, you've just got to love them.
Harvest run
There is something about the harvest. It is what the countryside has been building up to all year.
Wicked World Syndrome
The 'wicked world syndrome' is where we see so much suffering and evil around us that we begin to believe, wrongly, that happiness is not possible.
Back to Gepettos
Very grateful to have Gepettos open again, and to see it full on a Friday evening.
Augusta at 12
We are celebrating Gussies 12th birthday today. She is still going strong, although slowing down a little and getting a bit warty in her old age.
The Old Yard Nunnington
Great food and coffee at the Old Yard in Nunnington - just need to get their dish washer sorted.