Today is the first day of December, hurrah! Already in this house the inevitable has happened… Yes its up & Witchcat has already tried to climb it twice, but as yet has been unable to topple it (already we are doing better than last year). The other main reason I’m so glad to see December Read more about 30 days have November…[…]
(c) Oxford Mail So on the week I couldn’t wash who should turn up to my reading session but the Oxford Mail. They took loads of photos of all the volunteers, no sweat I thought, they won’t use the one of me. It looks like I was wrong! Full article here, apparently they phoned me Read more about Read all about it[…]
This was me, laid out on our bed, feeling very itchy on Tuesday night. Two years ago I had a really bad reaction to something that brought me out in blisters on both my right and left hands. After that initial bad reaction I started to get tiny bubbles appearing on the tips of my Read more about A week I’m pleased to see the back off[…]
So with it being ‘firework weekend’ and all that Jam, our friends David and I headed into Oxford to do the obligatory ohhing and ahhing over the South Parks fireworks. We met David at 2.30 in Oxford so therechance for a couple of drinks and some nibbles before the main festivities kicked off. Our first Read more about Remeber remeber…[…]
So on Friday night instead of collapsing in a heap we headed out to the West Berkshire Business awards. The local IT start up that Jam works for the fabulous Create IT had made it to the shortlist (one out of only four) for best new creative start up. The venue was the very glamorous Read more about An awards ceremony[…]
This year I was determined to have a Halloween party. I was really dead set (pun intended) on the idea until I found out the date in question fell on a Thursday thus not having a weekend day behind it (boooo). His Jamness and I decided a night in waiting for trick or treaters was Read more about All hallows[…]
There is no rest for the wicked and so I spent most of Friday night in the kitchen making pink vanilla cupcakes with very pink icing. The reason was Against Breast Cancer were taking over Abingdon market place and they were a bit short on cake. So I put on the oven and had a Read more about More cake and curtains[…]
On a blustery and quite unpleasant Monday eve last night I resisted the temptation to stay at home & cuddle up to the witchcat/radiator and headed out for a 2 hour workshop with Richard Skinner (yes he of the Fiction programme at the Faber academy) entitled Practical Writing tips. Our homework before we got to Read more about The novel – another serious attempt to finish[…]
My awesome workmates decided to get involved in this years Macmillan Coffee morning & raised an amazing £120 to go towards paying for Macmillan nurses. A fantastic effort and a really great cause to support, well done guys! Related posts: Sophie’s Birthday cakes Let them eat cake! It may be late but there is Read more about Macmillan coffee morning[…]
So on Sat after all the bake off madness was over (well we had dropped the cake off, I think the judging was still happening) we set off for a very special leaving party. Jamses youngest sister Kat is finally living out her traveller dreams and has a 1 year work permit for Australia. Kat was the Read more about She’s leaving home[…]