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There is no need to be jealous!

Sunday, July 22nd, 2012

I’m here in Italy with 4 teenagers and no sewing machine…..I guess you all know what that means 🙂 I have nerves of steel, so I’ll be OK!! Helen  

There is no need to be jealous!
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Grinding to a halt

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

So. Here we are. The girls finished school for the year today – and both passed the year for which I’m very grateful. My son finishes tomorrow.  I actually have a zillion things that I should be doing, but this afternoon I have slowly, but surely come to a grinding halt. Does that ever happen […]

Grinding to a halt
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How well do you see colour?

Friday, July 6th, 2012

My friend Carla in Canada sent me a really interesting link this week – it’s a test on how well you see colour and can differentiate different hues. I just assumed I was perfect….well you do, don’t you?…. …I wasn’t, but was still a fair bit better than average for my age, which is reassuring! […]

How well do you see colour?
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Awards

Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Over the last few weeks I’ve received two blogging awards: A Versatile Blogger award from Catherine aka Catterel and a Sunshine Award from Tanya at Sew a Second Chance I was very touched to get both, but I know that blogging awards are always a bit contentious and so I’m not going to send them […]

Awards
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Today I shouldn’t have got out of bed

Wednesday, June 27th, 2012

I’m having one of those days… You know what I mean. The days when you’d really like to just lock yourself in the bathroom for a very long time until it’s all gone away. They don’t happen all that often, but today there are too many things all just coming together. Puberty, the menopause and […]

Today I shouldn’t have got out of bed
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