Thursday, January 12th, 2012
May I present … my backlog… a book stash to rival the yarn stash and the fabric stash. I had made a little headway with the situation, but of course everybody knows how much I love to read and so I was inundated with oodles of lovely books for Christmas and my birthday. I’m not […]
Books!!
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012
Is there anything to beat a bit of tea and knitting? Tea and knitting with a kindred spirit? Lovely. I can’t think of a nicer way to spend the afternoon and rest my leg at the same time. Although it has to be said that Mel and I didn’t actually do any knitting – but […]
Tea and knitting
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
This is it. This is my little corner, by the window and right next to the kitchen, with a view of snow capped peaks out to towards the Austrian border. I’ve moved my trusty basket of goodies here and with Radio 4, my knitting, the laptop and my odds and ends, this is where I’m […]
Where you find me today.
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
What a day yesterday was! We kept a close eye all day on the internet to check on the situation on the roads and rail line out of Andermatt. The kids were press-ganged into packing and helping to clean the flat so that we could leave at a moment’s notice. The weather, which had been […]
Rejoining the world
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
We’re still stuck. The information deadlines keep getting moved back. There will be a new assessment at 1pm in 3 hours time. We’ve been surrounded by the deep booms of explosions this morning as they have tried to dislodge the snow masses that are threatening us with avalanches and keeping the road closed and the […]
On tenterhooks
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