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A manifesto for June

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

I found this on Leonie Wise’s blog. It’s her manifesto for June. Don’t you just love it!  To be honest, when I read it I thought it could be my manifesto for life. It checks all the boxes for me and fits really nicely with my search for order out of chaos, simplicity and more […]

Elderflower syrup ….the taste of early summer

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

I haven’t managed to get an awful lot creative done over the last two days. My day job managed to scupper that quite successfully. I guess you can’t win them all and at some point I have to earn the pennies! What I have managed to do though – mainly because if I had put […]

World Cup Malabrigo

Monday, June 14th, 2010

The Knitting Pure and Simple Neckdown Wrap Cardigan that I started a few weeks ago has been making some progress with all my football (soccer) watching. I certainly say that I’m delighted with the progress and results so far, The Malabrigo worsted yarn that I’m using is a dream, to put it frankly! It’s lovely […]

A day out in Bern, a speed up Sunday!

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Today I headed out to Bern at the crack of dawn with three of my running buddies. Bern is under two hours away by public transport – and is a very beautiful old city, the capital city of Switzerland and home to the Parliament (which you can see in the photo to the left). We […]

Take time to stop and smell the roses

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Sometimes life just runs away with me. I seem to rush from one thing to the next, with hardly time to draw breath, my every move seemingly dictated by the never, ever finished to-do-list. If there were 48 hours in a day I would fill them. And I still wouldn’t get everything done. Then in […]