Month: May 2009
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returning
I’m back online. twitter flickr getty Lovely NZ will be being tended to again, soon too. Less than a week in this house. The cats fly out on Tuesday. We fly on the 16th after a couple of weeks at my brother’s. Hong Kong first. Then Auckland – currently creaking under the weight of all…
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everything all in good (Astrid) time
Sometimes as parents we wonder whether Astrid shouldn’t be doing this, or that. Because everyone else’s children are, and have been, for ooh – well at least this long. But Astrid – no way. Astrid is all about Astrid time. Expert at digging in the heels. Expert at immovable. Astrid will not do anything she…
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me and my pans
I don’t know whether i’ve mentioned this – but my main ambition for our trip to the uk this time was to furnish myself with a nice set of le creuset pans. So I’ve been monitoring amazon – and I must admit I’ve been kicking myself for not just buying everything I wanted when the…
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(muji) spree
It all began with a pair of black shoes and a navy raincoat. Nothing like a few pieces of beautiful simple design to refresh one’s everything. I feel brilliant walking down the road in a lovely black jersey knit dress, black leggings (today indigo marle), grey cotton socks, simple shoes and a navy cotton jacket.…
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Fleeting
Not been around here much of late. I’ve been slightly grappling with the whole blog thing. The whole flickr thing. The other day I observed the arrival of purple wisteria petals, fallen from the pergola – and thought to myself, in a past time I would have returned swiftly with my camera – and now…
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installing xampp and wordpress
image – late summer garden 2008 I’m building a wordpress site locally so I’m using XAMPP to create a local MySQL database. A foolproof tutorial on installing XAMPP and WordPress can be found here. And if you want to install Drupal and XAMPP the best tutorial is here.
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Rufins cattins
That’s what we call him sometimes. Rufins.
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last IKEA hurrah
We’d been avoiding the fact but Edith is well and truly filling up the moses basket now. And the mattress is all lumpy and rubbish. So off we went to IKEA last monday. For the last IKEA hurrah. To buy her a cot as we’d sold Astrid’s fancy organic one. And some frames for prints…