Cambridgeshire Cathedral Crawling
Lots of things are happening this week, and changes are rolling over the horizon. The homeowners of the house we’re currently sitting for...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Jan 7
- 8 min
Stained Glass and Other Marvels
Zero-to-sixty in no time flat! That’s how it feels coming back from the holiday break. We have been making up for our down-time in a big...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Dec 31
- 5 min
New Year and New Challenges
Like most people, the week between Christmas and New Year was fairly quiet and many sites are closed. We feasted on Leon’s Chopped Salad...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Dec 24, 2022
- 5 min
Quiet Christmas
Leading up to Christmas it was relatively quiet for us. We had a little excitement when Ozzie came into the house after one of his...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Dec 17, 2022
- 9 min
East Anglia Outings
Well, rat! ← No, I didn’t misspell it. There was only one rat. Ozzie got exceptionally generous with Robin and gifted him one dead rat....
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Dec 10, 2022
- 10 min
It’s beginning to look a lot like…
Once again, I’ll lead with an update on this week’s mouse score: there are no changes since last week, alive or otherwise. Yaayyy! This...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Dec 3, 2022
- 4 min
Catch-Up not Ketchup
Let's have the mouse score first: we added 3 more LIVE mice to the scoreboard this week and one dead mouse. Robin had the joy of...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Nov 26, 2022
- 14 min
Oodles of Gratitude
Let’s get the important stuff handled first: I hope my American friends had a lovely Thanksgiving! A meme is going around which states: I...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Nov 19, 2022
- 13 min
Protection and Peregrination
We said our wistful goodbyes to Terry, the gorgeous, temperamental fashion-model Burmese, bundled the last of our things into the car,...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Nov 12, 2022
- 9 min
Pre-Raphaelite Madness and Other Things
I’m picking up the tale where I left off last time. To set the scene, we tune in to Kenilworth, where we are taking care of the...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Nov 5, 2022
- 10 min
Pre-Raphaelites and Other Glories
As I mentioned last week, we departed Newcastle and then spent 9 hours on the road heading south—with a brief deviation to Eyam. If...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Oct 29, 2022
- 16 min
Gosforth Northumbria Whirlwind (Part 2)
I will pick up our adventure in the area of Newcastle from where we left off last time. If you didn’t read part 1, you can catch up with...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Oct 23, 2022
- 12 min
Gosforth Northumbria Whirlwind (Part 1)
We said tearful au revoirs to Edie Rue, Mackerel, and Ginger, and promptly zoomed off to Newcastle-on-Tyne, where Robin had arranged a...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Oct 15, 2022
- 8 min
Betwixt and Between
We are wrapping up loose ends in Littlebeck, and as usual we’re disappointed by all the things we didn’t get to visit during this sit. I...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Oct 8, 2022
- 8 min
Are you going to Scarborough…?
Well I’m glowing today, because I’m quite delighted with my presentation to AusAPT last night. The time difference was fascinating...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Oct 1, 2022
- 7 min
Necessary Evil
Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow… That’s how I feel today. Yesterday Robin and I went and got our Covid booster shots. Just like always,...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Sep 24, 2022
- 9 min
Happy Solstice!
We are still working hard in Littlebeck and have barely raised our heads from the keyboard. The kittehs are getting friendlier and...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Sep 17, 2022
- 12 min
Royals and Ramblings
We are still in the midst of mourning the Queen here in the UK, and it has caused me some delays. We went out shopping on Saturday, and...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Sep 10, 2022
- 6 min
It’s All Too Much
I read you loud and clear! Some complaints trickled in after last week’s posting about the length of my missive. And that was after I cut...
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Dr. Vicky Jo
- Sep 3, 2022
- 13 min
Oxford Ogling
I can’t believe it’s been an entire week since I last wrote; at the same time I can’t believe it’s only been a week since I last wrote....
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