So… I still haven’t been skiing. I was going to try today.. but the weather is absolutely awful (or beautiful… because let’s face it, watching the snow falling on dark pine trees is pretty beautiful, right?) and it’s snowing quite heavily and I don’t think that poor visibility, snow drifts and unknown pistes are a …
Day one. We arrived yesterday afternoon to blue skies… flying over the Alps is always breathtaking, I am never tired of seeing this view. The transfer from Innsbruck Airport to St Anton (Austria) is really quick, just over an hour, and before we could say are we there yet… we were there… (Hotel St Antoner …
No I’m not moving you silly! I’m packing a suitcase. We’re going skiing. Actually that first sentence is quite accurate… I’m not moving at all, as my back is still playing up, which makes the whole ‘we’re going’ skiing a little more wishful thinking than reality. I’m trying to stay positive and I’ll report back …
I love quilts on wall. I love rugs on walls too but Mr M doesn’t like either of the options so the only place where I’ve been able to hang a quilt is the spare room. Lucky guests, right? Because of this inexcusable aversion/taste lapse etc. I’ve had to wait for my dad to actually …
The one and only advantage of one’s putting one’s back out completely and utterly a week before a ski holiday whilst getting into one’s car (true or false… true, don’t go there. It hurts and I’m furious) is that one has rather a lot of time to sit around and learn things that have had …
Bluebird Poem (by Charles Bukowski) there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette …
I know that this year’s colour is lavender but I can’t help by noticing yellow everywhere I look. It seems to me it’s a colour that has been ignored for a long while and now you can’t escape it. Yellow is the colour of the mind and of the intellect, it’s uplifting, illuminating, it inspires …
I’ve tried quite a few banana bread recipes through the years and this is by far my favourite. It’s definitively more like a bread than a cake. It’s not too sweet or ‘bananay’ and it tastes incredibly divine smothered in good quality butter (unsalted please!) or with Nutella. But then again what doesn’t taste better …
… it’s been an interesting week on the parenting front… so a song about family might just be what we need… have a good weekend with your family!
while you're ahead... 