Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts
Saturday, 10 October 2026

New Old Witch

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A few days ago, Wolfie and I went down town in one of the local artisan markets they have every other Saturday. Someone was selling home mad...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Farewell to the local gift shop

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There's some sad news I have been wanting to share: one of our local gift shops, an independent shop, has closed down recently. At first...
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Sunday, 21 June 2026

Fête des Pères

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C'est aujourd'hui  la fête des Pères , que je fête depuis 2016, quand ma femme m'a offert une carte avec une photo du phoetus qu...
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Sunday, 14 June 2026

Shiny Gems

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A few weeks ago, Wolfie and I went to the local toy shop. Not to buy anything, just to see what there was available, see if we could find as...
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Monday, 4 May 2026

Epic Train Trips of the World

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 I hope you can forgive me to blog yet again about trains. Maybe I am experiencing wanderlust , but of a specific kind, maybe it is just tha...
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Thursday, 9 April 2026

Precious Stones

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Something the simplest and most primitive things can make a little boy happy, when he is inquisitive. Since he received this issue of Aquila...
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Monday, 23 March 2026

Mille/1000 Bornes

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Une petite nouvelle sans vraie importance: j'ai retrouvé le jeu de  Mille Bornes  que ma femme m'avait acheté pour ma fête en 2022. ...
Friday, 12 December 2025

First presents wrapped

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Here is a quick post about Christmas preparations. I am being slow, but yesterday, Wolfie and I wrapped together the presents to his cousins...
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Monday, 8 December 2025

Everything Train for Christmas

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You may remember that last year I blogged about the Christmas presents you could buy at the shop of the the National Railway Museum in York...
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Saturday, 6 December 2025

Crime Fiction during Advent

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 I found this picture thanks to Books Are My Bag . Although I did not get my hands on this issue of Booktime, its cover got brought my atten...
Saturday, 29 November 2025

Christmas in the Jewellery

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Is it too early to talk about Christmas? I guess not, although I try to avoid the topic until December, or at least until very late November...
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Sunday, 16 November 2025

Bradley's Railway Guide

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We went to the local bookshop today, just for a quick stop to see if we could find any present ideas for Christmas. Yes, it's early, but...
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Sunday, 14 September 2025

Des cadeaux pour Wolfie

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 C'était la fête de petit loup récemment. Wolfie a neuf ans. Je vais dire un cliché mélancolique: le temps passe trop vite. Cela dit, cé...
Saturday, 22 March 2025

Playing with Trains

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 I found this old fashioned engine driver hat in the online shop of the National Railway Museum in York . You may remember that I have be...
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Monday, 17 February 2025

A Railway Themed Birthday?

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My birthday is only in April, but I know for a fact that my wife and Wolfie are already preparing for it and have already bought at least on...
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Tuesday, 31 December 2024

First Class Tea Mug

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 Okay, this is one of the very last time I will blog about Christmas until next year. And this may be my last post of the year too. I had to...
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Sunday, 29 December 2024

Gifts from the National Railway Museum

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You may remember that I blogged about the stuff  the National Railway Museum in York sold for Christmas. Well, I got spoiled this year by...
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Analyser Mafalda

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 Vous savez que je suis un fan de Mafalda . Je n'ai toujours pas les albums ici, hélas, mais j'ai reçu ceci pour Noël: un livre qui ...
Friday, 27 December 2024

New Lego train station

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For Christmas, Wolfie took to heart my love of everything trains related. He decided to give me a special present built by him: this train s...
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Monday, 9 December 2024

Christmas Anthologies

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'Tis the season to be reading and I know I have not been giving any reading suggestions for Christmas as of yet. It's because I am ...
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