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Clutter and claustrophobia

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 […]

A spring ritual

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 […]

I had to laugh…

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. […]

A long time gone…

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 Grey Day

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 […]