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April — they are back and busy month

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  Out come the animals and they are devising a board game with them. Very complicated rules. And the floods - it now doesn't rain every day but every second it seems. When the sky is blue the reflections are wonderful. and the painting from a similar view more or less - no one has yet recognised it!! Easter Sunday lunch at Lisa and here are Darcey with her little cousins, Lucy and Effie who had both just been in the hot tub. The rain persists but the stock market is up and energy prices are expected to fall though diesel is still about 14p higher than petrol. We have my bookclub choice The Lincoln Highway here. Here is my comment about it. This is quite a multi-layered story. It is 1954 and the story takes place over about 10 days.   Three 18-year old boys met up at Salina youth correction facility for different misdemeanours. This is the only reason they would ever have come across each other. One from an impoverished farm in Nebraska, one a WASP from upstate New York and the thi