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Walkings a much nicer experience without the crowds that appear on a hot day. Give me rainy walks every time.

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Emley Moor Mast, Huddersfield.

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I’ve ruined my own life by reading Mark Boyle’s _The Way Home. _.

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At times, I felt as though I was reading words spoken aloud my own mind.

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As doing nothing helps nature heal, maybe the rewilding of oneself involves first removing the unnecessary and seeing what happens

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A day at Lythum before the heat picks up again

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Love Yorkshire. Love home.

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Nothing says ‘Bank holiday\" like one of the kids being up from 4am. Coffee in the garden it is then

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It just shows that when you commit to something you believe in ‘the mysterious one’ backs you up a little and rewards those actions. Usually not any more than you need, just barely enough.

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Will report back.

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Using it as a PED before a game of Articulate

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Expected the Wuthering Heights film to be more late 1700s Yorkshire than the smut-driven cracker that it is, but I dig it

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Have been plant based for close to two years now, and finally gotten ill.

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Considering the amount of children we have at home, it’s nothing short of a miracle.

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Sick less, recover quicker.

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Another string to the ethical bow.

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After six long years, my original podcast has taken it’s first payment from Youtube revenue.

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Only taken 115 episodes!

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Unsubscribing from emailing lists

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Delightfully satisfying

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I think, therefore I think too much

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Enjoying the work done in the garden over the weekend

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England in the sun is second to none.

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This has been a long time coming

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We all the ability to be free. We don’t have to scroll endlessly through algorithms that eat your attention.

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Like weeding a patio, we have to to tend to ourselves and look after our beings.

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As someone once said, you can only move forward as you cannot go back

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