The Road by Cormac Mc Carthy Time is a funny thing. If you’d asked me about this book before last week I’d have told you that the my first attempt at reading it was during college… but that is not possible because when I looked into it was published 11 years after I graduated. Weird, …
I’m back!! The suitcases have been emptied, the first load of washing is in and I’ve put away the grocery delivery (genius move on my behalf, no trips to the supermarket on the first day back home…), so coffee in hand I’m going to show you the wonderfulness that is Croatia, Southern Croatia, the Dalmatian …
The colour purple by Alice Walker. Published in 1982, it won the Pulitzer Price for Fiction in 1983. It is such a well known and famous book I’m not going to sit here and critique it… it would be ridiculous, I’m just kind of ashamed it took me so long to read it, although to …
… it was never in doubt what today’s music choice was going to be… … watch out for an emotional Presiden Obama and Carol King going crazy…
More quilts. Hang in there… I wrote this post yesterday and then managed not to press ‘publish’… so today you’re getting a long double one effectively. Grab a cup of tea and let’s go So first up Ruth Singer , who had a residenship at the Staffordshire Record Office and researched and created artworks inspired by …
Today I’m going to show you some of the quilts that caught my eye at the show. No theme… just as I saw them here and there… First of all the quilt above was the winner of the Art Quilt category, it’s by Jean McLean and it’s called ‘And the Sky Danced’. Not my stile… …
This week it’s going to be a quilt party around here… I’ve taken a lot of photographs yesterday and I want to share with you all that caught my eye. Also, believe me when I say that not a lot is going on behind the scene if you discount school shopping and normal holiday life …
I’ve just got back from this year’s Festival of Quilts in Birmingham (UK…). I almost didn’t go because last year was so overcrowded and I ended up feeling overwhelmed and frazzled and frankly didn’t enjoy the experience at all. I almost didn’t make it there because my car tyres were a little flat and at …
This morning I got all dressed to for a run after taking No 1 to his work experience placement… and then I didn’t. I sat in the car on the driveway when I got back and had this thought that I really, REALLY didn’t fancy running, so why should I? Why should I feel guilty …
White Tiger by Arvind Adiga I’ve been sitting in front of the computer for a while and I don’t really know what to say about this book. Let me begin by saying that I ‘enjoyed’ reading it, it’s well written, it flows, it’s funny, it keeps you engaged… until you stop and realise that you …
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