Philip Dunn
Carpe Diem
Seize the day. Veryan and I certainly did when we first met on Friday 13 March last year, just a week before lockdown. By the following...
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Philip Dunn
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
Notice of No November Nuptials Now
Hi folks, Last night's announcement by the overprivileged buffoon in charge of the headless chickens in our "Government by U Turn", means...
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Philip Dunn
- Oct 21, 2020
- 4 min
Notice of November Nuptials
Hi everyone, Sorry to have gone so quiet of late, but this last Spring and Summer was exceptional and not only because of lockdown or...
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Philip Dunn
- May 5, 2020
- 5 min
Isolation, Consternation and Consolation
Hello everyone, I hope you are all well and safe during this deadly pandemic. It seems only a short time ago that we were able to...
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Philip Dunn
- Mar 19, 2020
- 2 min
Results of Shelfish Behaviour
Hi folks, I hope you are all keeping well in this most difficult of recent times and I hope you are all pleased to hear that I am so far...
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Philip Dunn
- Feb 29, 2020
- 19 min
After All, It Was Christmas
Some Seasonal Memories of 1967
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Philip Dunn
- Feb 3, 2020
- 4 min
My Post-Christmas Post (Part 4)
Greetings fellow Earthlings, At least we haven't actually voted yet on whether we should go and live on another planet, even if many of...
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Philip Dunn
- Jan 28, 2020
- 2 min
My Post-Christmas Post (Part 3)
After Melinda and I had a coffee in Arromanches, we walked around looking for somewhere for a bite of lunch. Unfortunately, many of the...
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Philip Dunn
- Jan 21, 2020
- 1 min
My Post-Christmas Post (Part 2)
A trip to Montfiquet and then to arromanches
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Philip Dunn
- Jan 14, 2020
- 2 min
My Post-Christmas Post (Part 1)
Thank you for all your Christmas cards, which are really appreciated and I am still putting off the inevitable task of removing them from...
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Philip Dunn
- Nov 1, 2019
- 3 min
An Ace and a King
So it's not Goodbye EU Day but it is Halloween
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Philip Dunn
- Oct 27, 2019
- 2 min
Another Day, Another Château
Hello everyone, Just down the road (Route de Coq Gaulois) from where I was staying at Jan's little house... ...past these rather splendid...
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Philip Dunn
- Oct 22, 2019
- 2 min
Le Vieux Château de Beaucamps-le-Jeune
Hi everyone, The weekend during my stay in Normandy back in September happened to coincide with "Les 36e Journées Européennes du...
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Philip Dunn
- Oct 13, 2019
- 1 min
Summer's over...
...so I went over to France again to visit my friend, Jan, in Normandy, before she moved house to Brittany... ...and here she is, in the...
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Philip Dunn
- Jul 16, 2019
- 2 min
Sweet Thames, run softly
Hello everyone, It was another beautiful afternoon on Tuesday 16 July, when high tide that ends on the Thames at Teddington Lock was due...
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Philip Dunn
- Jul 15, 2019
- 2 min
Philip's Francofile 2019 (Part3)
Chers amis et famille, I left la Londe-les-Maures on the morning of Saturday 29 June and headed northwest with the temperature in the low...
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Philip Dunn
- Jul 14, 2019
- 1 min
Philip's Francofile 2019 (Part 2)
Bonjour à tous, A little way up from my favourite spot on la Plage del'Argentière is a sailing school... ...so in English it may be...
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Philip Dunn
- Jul 11, 2019
- 3 min
Chers mesdames et messieurs,
As soon as May is over, Artists' Open Houses have all finally closed and I am yet another year older, I allow myself to succumb to my...
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Philip Dunn
- Jul 7, 2019
- 2 min
Fwd: The Spring Resprung
Hi again, at last, I really don't know whether I should apologise for the tardiness of this blog or not. On the one hand, it might be...
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