Phase Three

The freedom of retirement (possibly)

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Watching the Red Arrows

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A beautiful Cream, Silver & Turquoise Reactive Glass Pendant

Handmade cream, silver and turquoise blue reactive glass pendant with cream cord.

This has been created by fusing cream, turquoise blue glass with a silver foil and when fired in the kiln a chemical reaction occurs creating a beautiful design.

This is a closeup view

and a view of the back, showing the .925 silver bail

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Taking a vegan diet too far

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A walk around Lupton grounds

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Brixham harbour at low tide

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Don't fancy climbing those.

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... and some more pictures

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Another good day fora walk around Paignton Zoo, there are a few more animals out than last time, but the Orangotauns had just had breakfast so they were kipping inside, lazy ...

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Time for another walk, this time to Coleton Fishacre. It was better than I was expecting with bueatiful plants and scenic views. You can hear the sea crashing on the rocks below.

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3 new photos by Vincenzo D'Urso

stopping off for a bite to eat found a nice little place on our side of the A303 the Bell Inn at winterbourne stoke. not open every day but we were lucky and found something on the menu thatcwe liked "Mediterranean vegetable tart" vegan and delicious.

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The vyne

This is some of the pictures of The Vyne, it is a great place to visit for walks and the house is full of history

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Mevagissey Cornwall

House hunting again, and just to freek us out, there was a TV program the night before showing the fishermen, would loved to have lived there but the house we looked at wasn't quite there for us.

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Torquay in winter

A great time to visit the town without the tourists

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What a difference a day makes

A couple of weeks ago we found a house that we concidered putting an offer in, which was accepted. Doing a bit of digging we found a potntional issue with being able to use one of the garages as a studio. Yesterday we had confirmation that we could use it the way we wanted. This morning we found out that some one in our chain had a mortgage offer that will expire in March, sounds like a long time but legal wheels turn very slowly. So what do we do now, carry on and hope all will be well and we move?

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Black Farce

Do retailers think that we are gullible to all the sales hype, it is not just this week, but any time they “offer” a sale, it is mostly BS.

There are laws to protect the consumer but I believe that these are not extensive enough, and those that exits should be more stringently enforced.

In the past sales were to shift stock that has low demand, I suggest that once an item has been marked down as a sale item, its price can not be increased, so either the item is given away or destroyed. This will reduce the amount over greedy overstocking in an attempt to make huge profits for the ideal executives whilst the shop floor staff get poorly treated with minimum wage.

Come on people, smell the coffee and ask yourself “Do I really need this” or you can be a trend setter and go for repairing and reusing and being proud of the provenance of what you have. Let's go for long-lasting quality goods rather than the cheap shoddy throwaway goods which so many of us have got used to and accepted.

Keeping up with (insert group here) is not fashionable and tends to be to the detriment of your pocket.

I am here working on a refurbished pc, adding extra disks as my storage needs increase, and when disks fail, I strip them down and reuse the parts for all sorts of projects, if a piece is not function it becomes a part of some artwork.

So let us go back to the farce, and learn from a time before supermarkets where traders were small and the service was personal, but you cry “I do all my shopping on line” well you still can, there are many small traders out there just waiting to serve you.