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Uma Thurman never looked like this in Pulp Fiction.

Trish Burgess Posted on01/01/201107/04/2016 Lucky Dip 24 Comments

Pretty scary eh? This is Soapy Sophie from my previous blog post modelling the shocking wig I attempted to create so I could go to the assassins-themed fancy dress party as Mia Wallace from Pulp

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A Blow-up doll and Arthritic Charades

Trish Burgess Posted on28/12/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 17 Comments

Before Christmas Dougie complained he was uncomfortable in the bath and that it would be nice to have a bath pillow. So I bought him Soapy Sophie, an Inflatable Bath Buddy. Isn’t she marvellous. In

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A Christmas Baby

Trish Burgess Posted on26/12/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 8 Comments

 Photo from The Sunday Sun: my nephew second from left. What timing! Just after 3 o’clock Christmas morning, my new nephew, having delayed his arrival for two weeks, decided to make his grand entrance into

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Mum’s Gone through the wardrobe again

Trish Burgess Posted on21/12/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 14 Comments

Just a few more Narnia photos to share with you. I sent a couple off to the local paper yesterday and they are going to publish one of them in a page of readers’ winter

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Mum’s Gone to Narnia…in Lincolnshire

Trish Burgess Posted on20/12/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 10 Comments

You’d be forgiven for thinking I took these snaps in black and white but no, it was just the usual automatic full-colour setting. There’s an eery fog over everything today, nothing is moving, it’s minus 7

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When William met Audrey

Trish Burgess Posted on16/12/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 22 Comments

Who would have thought it: William Wallace and Audrey Hepburn? An unlikely pairing, indeed, but they look very cosy at a party in Lincolnshire in 2004 (or it could be 2003: I have no idea whether

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Late Entry for the Christmas Number One?

Trish Burgess Posted on14/12/201004/04/2017 17 Comments

Forgive me for reminiscing yet again about Rory when he was little, but I had to share this gem from our newly-converted DVDs of Rory as a little boy. Following on from his jigsaw session, here he

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You shouldn’t have. No really, you shouldn’t…

Trish Burgess Posted on12/12/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 14 Comments

Yesterday we girded our loins and did the annual pre-Christmas trip to visit my Aunt. I hadn’t seen her since the Summer so was riddled with guilt as she’s over 80, lives on her own and has

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