With September once again truly upon us it was yet again time for my esteemed employers to release the workforce from the office for a day to complete tasks for this years chosen charities/strike a blow back for everything that is good in the world. This year there were three choices, repairing some steps for Read more about Volunteering… the return[…]

  And so after the ceremony and the photo’s outside in the sunshine (the weather worked out perfectly, thank goodness) we went into the barn to sit down to the wedding breakfast and let our hair down. Lisa has booked local celidh band the Gekoes and I’d offered to call for the wedding guests.    Read more about Lisa’s wedding reception[…]

So after many hour of sewing (and I mean many) I give you the beautiful bride   Lisa is so beautiful I could have sent her down the aisle in a binbag but I think I managed to go one better than that. I would have loved to have done the bridesmaids dresses as well Read more about Lisa wedding[…]

The bodice is the last bit of the dress to be done, I made this tulle to check the fit, as I suspected the bodice needed extending a bit to fit over the skirt. This fit will probably alter again once the boning is in so I also factored in some ‘wiggle room’ . I Read more about fitting the bodice[…]

Work has been manic of late with not much let up so this Friday my friend Nicola and I headed to Oxford for drinks and a bit of dinner.    The head of the river is very popular student hang out we walked from Nicola’s flat all the way along the towpath till we reached Read more about dinner with Nicola[…]

So last weekend my sheerly superb friend from uni Mr Alex Wood (yes you should know him by now he has appeared on this blog many, many times) got all grown up and MARRIED to his long term girlfriend Victoria. Nichy and I were in attendance and we had a great day after an early Read more about The Wonderful Wedding of Wood[…]

So after fully exploring the wonders of inside we moved outside to look at the show gardens. Almost immediately I was confronted by this sight. Yes dear readers it is ethnobiologist and herbal fox James Wong (he is the one in the black shirt for the uninitiated), reclining gracefully in his hut/thing in the middle Read more about Chelsea flower show – the latter part[…]

So yesterday housemate Dave and myself got up at 4am and headed to Oxford (we cycled there in the pouring rain, which was as you can imagine delightful…). The rain however subsided and it was all worth it as I finally got to hear the Magdalen hymn, which despite going into Oxford on May day Read more about May morning in Oxford[…]

I have to admit being a currently single girl the thought of Valentines day does not fill me with joy, however all that changed this year and a brilliant time was had. First of all on the 13th Feb (Saturday) OXFOLK was graced by the brilliant (and still startlingly young) What’s up Folk. The band Read more about Yes I will be your valentine[…]

So this week the snow came to Oxfordshire (here is my beautiful residance in the snow, awwww). And my goodness it really did snow! I ventured out on Wednesday morning and it was up to my knees, my knees! So subsequently I didn’t go into work on Wednesday (oh no) and we enjoyed an official Read more about Snow in Oxfordshire[…]