Fourkay

Well, it would appear I've clocked up 4000 lumps of blippiness.  Really, absolutely no idea how that happened but I'm glad it has - and ever grateful to the volunteers who keep this all running remarkably smoothly.  I've seen IT, it doesn't run this smoothly without a lot of skill and time.

And thanks too to MartinAlexRolph who introduced me to blip, and thus MarkCallaghan whom, I suspect, introduced Martin.

As it happens I'm in the middle of a big catch-up so it's by pure chance that it's a semi-respectable photo today - and that the subjects are the Cheesemining Classics of a view from the garden, across the valley, and a boardgame in the extra (a busy day tin mining in Cornwall, in Tinners' Trail).

I'm pinching an idea from Ripitup's 4k post, to look back at this date in past years. Thus, we have..

2014 - not long in the new home and new career, new widgets appear and we start to discover just what extraordinary level of house-bodging has been going on here.

2015 - the nativity emerges.  Poignant this year as our friend of very many years, who introduced us to the idea of moving Mary & Joseph gradually to the stable from the other end of the mantlepiece, died earlier this year.

2016 - murky weather (and 'have we had that sculpture that long?')

2017 - snow surprise! (snow with snow on top).  Makes this year's dusting look very mediocre.  

2018 - Might have been a frustrating day.

2019 - Ah - the start of the decorating of the major rooms (We did this just before Christmas? What were we thinking?).  A reminder of just how much we disliked the previous decor in this room.

2020 - That year.  And the year you enjoyed your Afternoon Tea in a plastic cubicle.

2021 - and... more tea.


Always more tea.