Life & Times

Dodging the rain at Bantham Beach, Devon

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I don’t think I’ll be making a feast with these beauties that are growing out of our doorstep.

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Figure - verb

1. An awesome beast who figured in Egyptian legend: feature, appear, be featured/mentioned, be referred to; participate, play a part, play a role, be conspicuous, have prominence, have a place; star.

2. A way to figure the values: calculate, work out, total, sum, reckon, compute, enumerate, determine, evaluate, quantify, assess, count, add up, put a figure on, tally, totalise, gauge; British tot up; rare cast.

3. North American informal I figured that I didn’t have much of a chance: suppose, think, belief, fancy, consider, expect, take it, suspect, have a sneaking suspicion, sense; assume, dare say, conclude, take it as read, presume, be of the opinion, trust; deduce, infer, gather, glean, divine; North American guess.

4. North American informal ‘Rosemary’s away.’ ‘That figures.’: make sense, be understandable, seem reasonable, stand to reason, be to be expected, be logical, follow, add up, stand up, hold up; ring true, be convincing; be likely/probable, go without saying.

Prog Magazine’s Halloween playlist will kickstart your trick and treating…🎃

I think it may rain today …

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Sunday morning coffee and pastry at Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon.

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It’s our first weekend living in Devon so we had to go to the beach.

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First time in Kingsbridge, Devon as a resident and not a tourist.

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A day in the life. All packed by 7:48pm on our last day living in Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire, UK after ten happy years. This time tomorrow we’ll be living in Devon. 📷

This dahlia is always the star of our front garden #FridayPhoto 📷🌱

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Listening to Between the Music: Volume One which is a collection of the tracks played between the acts at the End of the Road Festival, chosen by Simon Taffe. 🎶

I know it’s the 25th, but it’s only September. We spotted a guy wearing a Christmas jumper in town today 🎄

Industrial furnaces #FridayPhoto 📷

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You’ve got to put fuel in the tank when you’re on an 80-mile bike ride #FridayPhoto 📷 🚲

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I spent too long setting up Personalised Spatial Audio after upgrading to iOS 16 on my iPhone. Apple expects you to scan your ears and follow instructions when you can’t see what’s on the screen…. Tip: use screen mirroring.