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Photograph by Alistair Pryde of Words & Pictures,
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Ask
not for whom the hound roos; she roos for thee.
(From:
"Send not to know for whom the bell tolls,
it tolls for thee." John Donne, 1624)
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Remembrance Day Wreath-laying at
the Act of Remembrance,
Churches Together service (The Parish of St Mary,
Gainford)
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November’s weather was pretty good …
until the last week when Storm Arwen hit us! 100
MPH winds, snow … the lot. Thankfully, we
only had a small “outage” and very
little damage – others were not so lucky.
Much of County Durham and Northumberland were
without power overnight and as I write (on 4th
December) many are still without power and some
are without water because it’s pumped by
electricity. Awful for them and has knocked
everyone’s faith in moving towards electric
ground-source heat pumps to replace gas heating
and electric cars for example. We have a
generator, but it wouldn’t power a GSHP!
We had out longest AirBnB guest – Toni was
here for the whole month working on his
archaeology research with Durham University. It
was very successful for him and us. We also had
the next part of the porch adaptation done –
the outside door was fitted so we now have a
weather barrier, a noise barrier (next-doors have
a very loud dog) and a place for Amazon parcels
to be left. Result … and it looks great!
Ian laid a remembrance day wreath on behalf of
Her Majesty which was a lovely event at Gainford
(see above). It was held on the village green
which was a perfect venue – plenty of people
turned up and the service was very moving indeed.
We’re intending to go back for their carol
service – also on the Green.
Also towards the end of the month, Covid
reinvented itself again and morphed into the
Omicron variant. We’d just had out booster
jabs, thankfully, because the centres had to step
up their rate shortly afterwards. We don’t
really know whether it’s more or less
dangerous, nor whether the vaccine will be as
effective; but by having the booster we’ve
done all we can to help those around us, our
loved ones and, maybe, ourselves. We just wish
everyone felt the same! Hey ho –
there’s no accounting for folks, as they
say. Ian made a reminder to himself not to have
the Covid booster on the day after his flu jab
… he felt awful for a day!
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