Sunday, March 11th, 2012
My sewing room/office is possibly the smallest sewing room / office in the world. When it’s tidy and the velux windows are open it sometimes feels quite roomy and airy – well if I’m honest it only feels like that for people who like really small rooms, which luckily enough, I do. Right now I […]
Clutter and claustrophobia
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Friday, March 9th, 2012
Yesterday I finally found what I’d been looking for for weeks to no avail at the supermarket. Daffodils. Plain old daffodils. Every year from January on I look out for them. This year they are terribly late in showing up, maybe because of the very cold weather we’ve had in Europe this winter. We’ve had […]
A spring ritual
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
Recently I did a new wordpress update. Update? Well it tweaked a few things I guess, but I didn’t notice much of a difference. Not until this morning that is. Then I realized that there was a new thingy in my column on the right. That’s right. Have you seen it? A special subscriber thingy. […]
I had to laugh…
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
I left the UK nearly 23 years ago. I was 25, had just taken my last accountancy exams and was excited to move on to pastures new. I was lucky enough to have secured a job transfer for myself to the US – and what’s more, to the city where everyone wanted to go – […]
A long time gone…
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Sunday, February 26th, 2012
After our lovely and much appreciated tiny breath of spring, we’ve gone back to grey and dismal and rain has set in. Actually this is a good thing. If it was a few degrees colder it would be snowing (please Lord, not more…!) and rain is the quickest way to get the snow we have […]
A Grey Day
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