I grew up on breakfasts of Nutella on bread (not toast… fresh) or biscuits dipped in milk, sometimes a big bowl of chocolate milk full of fresh bread from the bakery down the road – don’t scoff until you try it – cereals came later when I was older but they were expensive and exotic …
I found a Bee Gees greatest hits double album in a charity shop for the pricely sum of £2.50 a couple of days ago and I can’t stop playing it. But this video? priceless. The hair… the high waisted pants… the moves… they lyrics… “you can tell by the way I use my walk …
I literally stumbled upon this pattern whilst numbingly surfing Instagram when the school bus was late… how did I miss it before? You can buy the paper version from the website (Tessuti) or you can download it for free which has the double benefit of being immediately available – if you have that itch to …
… my obsession with macrame continues… I’ve ordered lots of coloured rope but in the meantime I need to make do with what I have… it’s quite incredible how much rope/cord it takes to do anything… metres and metres of the stuff. Sunday afternoon, after a stupidly early morning hockey tournament and a consequently unavoidable …
Today is traditionally celebrated as The Bard’s birthday… so… I’ll give you a favourite of mine… Sonnet 18 (by William Shakespeare) Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no; it is an ever-fixed …
Seasonally appropriate if not geographically…
The mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar. After the disappointment of my last book I needed something to get me back onto the reading wagon… I’m really lagging behind and I’m not sure I’m going to make it to 48 at this snail pace. I’ve read 8 and there are 40 to go… …
Isn’t the weather glorious today? My mind is positively fizzing with joy… I’ve had to dive into my summer drawer for a short sleeve top and I’m wearing sandals… perhaps I might take my straw bag for a walk too later… It seems to me that basket bags are absolutely everywhere at the moment, don’t …
What can I say… if it ain’t broken… I love this pattern, (the Esme tunic/top, from this book by Lotta Jansdotter)… it fits me without having to make any adjustments, I can make it into a top (I made two) and a tunic/dress… just brilliant, the instructions are easy to follow (although not as detailed …
Every Morning (by Mary Oliver) I read the papers, I unfold them and examine them in the sunlight. The way the red mortars, in photographs, arc down into the neighborhoods like stars, the way death combs everything into a gray rubble before the camera moves on. What dark part of my soul shivers: you don’t …
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