Home safe
MrPloppy arrived back from his long (way too long!) UK trip yesterday. It’s so nice to have him home!!!
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It must be Cup Day
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Dishcloth and pokebox
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London thoughts
My friends (both real-life and virtual are safe) are safe, but there’s a lot of people who can’t say the same 🙁 For over a year I worked in an office opposite the entrance to Liverpool Street Station, so the images on TV were doubly shocking to me – they seemed so much more real…