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Result!

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

And the winner is…. (here there should be a nice picture of the random number generator thingy, but it doesn’t want to play ball, so please use your imagination!) And as you can see (er hum) number 11 wins…. So Mary Kay from Out and About in Paris, I’ll be emailing you and Lina Button […]

Off into the woods again….

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Finally tomorrow I’m allowed to run. Only ten minutes at first, but that’s a start. I’ll be on the trails again and that’s the main thing. The picture above isn’t me, it’s Paula Radcliffe.  I sometimes imagine I’m her when I’m out running, especially during races when I need to get my head down and […]

Taking it slow

Sunday, March 18th, 2012

Today I’m not rushing. I’m consciously trying not to try to do sixteen things all at once. I’m taking the time to do things slowly and one at a time. It feels an astonishingly calm way to go about things and I don’t know why I don’t do it all the time. I went to […]

Odds and Ends

Saturday, March 17th, 2012

Today I’m tying up loose ends…so bear with me…lots of bits and pieces to report, questions to answer, that sort of thing… The Rug The rug is coming along very nicely – and seems to have struck a cord out there in blogland. I did a few inches at the top and have now started […]

Unexpected

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

I’ve been working on my stars. And you’ll never guess what I discovered. Without the solid and striped reds – which I swore blind I wouldn’t use – it was DULL, DULL, DULL! I thought the red would dominate, but now that I’ve started using it, I actually think it’s just what this quilt needs. […]