Although Christmas was supposed to be a lovely break form work I found myself using the time to catch up on projects instead. I thought I’d be mostly knitting I seem to have crammed quite a few other crafts in as well. I went to Ikea with Trisha and ended up buying this fantastic little Read more about Exhibit[…]
Claire and I have been friends since about the age of 12, when we kind of fell in with each other (and never really fell out, despite the time she pushed me in the mud, but that’s a different tale…). We were together all through high school, but then college came and we were seperated Read more about Bread with Claire[…]
There has been all sorts going on in this my already quite full life these last few weeks (hence the lack of blogging, sorry but most of these seem to have required pen and paper rather than internet) so it seems only fitting to recap… Last Thursday the fabulous and very talented Jayne from over at Read more about It’s all been happening![…]
Well it may have only just started but 2012 is already looking like a great year for folk music. These are some of the very exciting albums I will be listening to this year Jim Moray – Skulk It’s accoustic, it has a fox on the cover, what’s not to love??? The Moray returns with Read more about This year I will be mostly listening to….[…]
With Bellowhead uncharacteristicaly not at the Royal Festival Hall we thought we would spend our New Year in Oxfordshire, having our usual neighbourhood party which consists of shuffling out onto the grass as a group for sparkly wine and rockets at midnight. These carefully laid plans were however shattered when Jam got invited to his friend Sam’s party in Newbury (Sam Read more about New Year 2012[…]
After what seemed like weeks of anticipation we set off to collect our new chickens from the British Hen Welfare Trust on the 28th December. Our pick up time was 3.45 so we knew we probably wouldn’t get to see much of the girls that night but could look forward to getting to know them Read more about The arrival of our new chickens[…]
So things I was aiming to do this year were roughly as follows:1. Go on a date with a least one nice chap (having had my heart broken yet again late last year this was definitely top of my list to regain faith in men-kind). January came and I met this chap: This quickly followed: 🙂 2. Read more about This year in pictures[…]
A true (but not often known) fact about me is that I used to work as a barmaid in Soho London. The streets of Soho have a bit of a reputation for *blushing* other things and while there was a lot of that about there was also the pub I used to work in, the (sadly Read more about Barmaids mince pies[…]
We had a birthday to celebrate this week as well as Christmas calories to consume, Jam turned 28 (or as he prefers to think about it 18 &10) so I made him a chocolate birthday cake filled with chocolate chips and complete with chocolate icing. The night of his actual birthday we went out for Read more about Many many cakes[…]
As regular readers to this blog will know since January last year I’ve been attending wood school on a Thursday night.The class runs from 7pm till 9pm and everyone has their own projects to be getting on with and works pretty seperately unless one of the tutors has something to show us or its break/parish Read more about Wood school Christmas meal[…]