kent-coast
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Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day, and since my UPF free Lent, I have become obsessed with overnight oats. I’m a basic girl and just soak the oats in water with grated apple and chia seeds, adding fruit and natural yoghurt in the morning – and I really look forward to it. During Read more
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The weather has been gloriously sunny in England this spring, and with a very gradual phased return planned for after the Easter holidays, and aware that once I was back at work, even with reduced hours, I was likely to be too exhausted to do anything in my free time, I was keen to get Read more
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Despite my best efforts at rest, my health continued to deteriorate by the day, and the realisation that I was suffering the worst relapse I have had in three years, hit me very hard. Up until now these bigger relapses have come every two years, always towards the end of January/start of February, resulting in Read more
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I love Christmas but always approach the new year with a certain amount of trepidation. For as long as I can remember I have just felt terribly sad as the old year comes to an end, and having written a diary since the age of seven, the empty pages of a new volume have always Read more
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I work in a school, and the last few weeks of term have been incredibly busy and stressful as I have been organising an activity week. Months in advance I am always full of what I think are fantastic ideas, but then as it gets closer and I have to put them all into place, Read more
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Two long bus journeys and I was back in Dungeness, ready to begin part 2 of my Kent Coast Walk. My expectations hadn’t been particularly high, as the route mostly just followed the coast road that I had been along many times before, and so I knew pretty much what to expect, but in fact Read more
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I have been wanting to walk the Kent Coast for a few years now but my daughter, who is my usual walking companion, couldn’t see the point because we have done so much of it in assorted directions already. However, I really want to do it in order, from start to finish and, as I Read more
A Little Kentish Magic 