To Paint or Not to Paint, THAT is the question…
In getting the kitchen sorted out post-flood, my attentions have rather wandered from the rest of the house, which is nagging me and sending occasional reminders my way that it could cheerfully do with a little attention. It’s the decorating curse: once you have one room as you want it, all the others look shabby [...]
Growing Pains
Recently, I have taken some time out to rekindle my green fingers, after a nasty confidence-bashing experience with my windowsill herb garden and a lot of aphids. I found a little rose plant on its last legs in Ikea in March of this year. It was in a sorry state with no flowers, curled up [...]
Preparation is the key to an easy life
Inspired by Caroline’s post on Early Birds and Night Owls, I had a look at my own habits and patterns and confirmed to myself that I really am an early bird. By 3pm my energy levels have vanished to a point beyond rescue and by 6pm, I can’t construct a sentence that doesn’t involve food. [...]
The Knicker Lady
Last night I did something I’ve been promising myself for ages. I went to the theatre. The Knicker Lady is a charmingly comical romp through the history of intimate apparel since the Victorian ages, as told by Rosemary Hawthorne, Vicar’s wife, Fashion historian, and Joyce Grenfell of Knickers. I laughed so much that I sat [...]
A paradox in social media
Technology isn’t my first love, but I can see its uses in many of the social media going on today. I have accounts with facebook, linkedin, myspace and so on but each of them, to my mind, carries a function. They share separate parts of me with different people. LinkedIn enables me to share my [...]
The Street Where I Live
God, the weather today has just been gorgeous. Genuinely, you could be mistaken, looking at the picture to the left of my road in thinking it was a summer’s day (yup, the gorgeous picturesque landscape in the photo … I live there! Never ceases to amaze me either.) Wandered up past the farm opposite down [...]
Autumn and Friendships
A midday Friday post as I am gathering the courage to get my sewing basket out and start dealing with the giant pile of mending that has been growing in the corner of my bedroom for a number of weeks, that I have time to tackle now that I have a kitchen ceiling again. I’ve [...]
Weekendus Domesticus
Despite being in the middle of yet more building work due to the house flooding last month, I decided to have a domestic Sunday, or at least as far as is possible with half my kitchen currently residing in the living room. I had a lovely time decanting various bottles of my homemade liqueurs into [...]
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