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<p class="has-drop-cap">It has been a busy week with the elusive "Julia" coming to stay at the end of last week and then visitors from Scotland arriving on Saturday in transit to the wilds of the Highlands. After they left "Julia" and I travelled down by train to London to stay with my brother-in-law in Islington.</p>
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<p>The train journey wasn't without incident because the 09:14 train from Market Rasen was cancelled. Thankfully my heroic neighbour and friend, Dave, came to the rescue and whisked us off to Lincoln so we could make the connection on time at Newark Northgate. We arrived at King's Cross on time.</p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">We spent Tuesday morning at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition in the Natural History Museum. The photographs are outstanding and it must be a gargantuan task to select out of over 54,000 entries those that are going on display.</p>
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<p>As always there was the ethical discussion around images that are captured on automatic cameras set near to paths where animals may wander by. After the visit we had lunch sitting outside a café in Kensington.</p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">Tuesday evening found us at the Barbican to see the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.fromtheboxoffice.com/city/2957-london/1DY90-the-comedy-of-errors/?gclid=CjwKCAiAs92MBhAXEiwAXTi255P4qGIVKMLOs7Yi2qJUN0ko9-65WhCMBr2huCLIohbUTfsZYuvILBoCXLkQAvD_BwE" target="_blank">RSC perform A Comedy of Errors</a>. We had pre performance dinner courtesy of R&amp;N at <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.cote.co.uk/restaurant/barbican/" target="_blank">Cote Brasserie</a> which was delightful, as always (last time was in <a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/5319" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">October 2018</a>.</p>
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<p>The play is a typical Shakespeare with confusion and misidentifications. It was very funny, brilliantly performed and a pleasure to watch. </p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">"Julia" and I headed for Market Rasen on Wednesday; picked up at Lincoln station by Dave to avoid a one and a half hour wait for our connection. There was a family meet up at the Golf Course for a fish &amp; chip supper. The portions were gigantic - stomach bursting.</p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">Getting home means there are plenty of jobs to be done and at this time of year clearing the lawns of leaves is a never ending task.</p>
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<p>Rather than scraping them up I ran the mower over the lawn and after about an hour the back lawn was clear. There will be more tomorrow but it is much easier if I keep on top of them. At the moment Piglet has been turned off because the grass is hardly growing but if these daytime temperatures continue at ten degrees or above I will have to turn her back on again.</p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">It started as a simple need to change a light fitting on the landing but as I thought about it I decided there were other electrical changes I wanted. I've had the fluorescent light in the workshop replaced with two LED strip lights, new external lights at the back of the garage and had a new strip light over the counter either side of the hob. I'm really pleased with the work that has been done and it has made a difference in so many areas - why didn't I do this before?</p>
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