Thursday, August 19th, 2010
School starts up again next week. This year, for the first time, I’m going to have all 3 children in school in Zürich, so heading off for the train at the crack of dawn. Our slightly idiosyncratc school system means that I will still however have someone home for lunch and the afternoon on Wednesdays, […]
A new school year…who knows what’s around the corner?
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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
While I was in England I received delivery of my freshly quilted Whirligig quilt – you remember the one – from Carrie Nelson‘s wonderful book Miss Rosie’s Spice of Life Quilts. I love this pattern. It was such a fun one to put together and is an absolutely fabulous stashbuster scrap quilt. I used up […]
Welcome home Whirligig
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Hello again – I’m back! I had a wonderful trip, although driving over 3,000km in 8 days was a lot…but worth it for the chance to see many old friends and old haunts, not to mention my mother. My daughter and her friend had a wonderful time at a musical theatre course in Edinburgh and […]
Durham, Alnwick and the long road home….
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Saturday, August 7th, 2010
I’m off tomorrow to drive to the UK to visit friends and family, delivery my daughter and her friend to a musical theatre camp and go back to old haunts. I’ll be offline for a few days but hope to come back with some photos, stories and memories to share with you. I’m visiting one […]
To the land of my forefathers…
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
Right now my life is full. Full of the running of a household, looking after 3 children, building up my editing and consulting business, blogging, the mundanities of domesticity. I know that I could very easily – and will very easily, if I don’t watch out – continue along this path. But at the end […]
Turning my life into what I want it to be
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