Month: January 2013
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Amsterdam to Oxfordshire
Being here has certainly given me a lot of headroom. The past few days I’ve got both girls at school and nursery and the builders seem to not be here quite so much and things can begin to be put in place. Finishing touches. And time for reflection. The snow’s gone now. Thank goodness. We…
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Home made pizza
Since we’ve left the madness of London behind, the crowds, the kebab shops, the off licences everywhere, signs with depressing news headlines, fag butts in the gutter, buildings everywhere and red buses going past, cars beeping, people running red lights – all those things and many good things too. Since we’ve left all that behind…
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Little interior snippets
It’s taken weeks of unravelling, arranging, throwing away, sorting and fine-tuning and at last the little dining area is almost done. My job as a UX was pretty much the same – refining information or commands down into the perfect order, of the perfect amount of the right thing. Looking at my Pinterest boards now…
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In the Cotswolds countryside
Well, we’ve been here nearly three weeks. Or is it nearly four weeks? We’ve had sunshine, we’ve had snow, we’ve had a howling wind. We’ve had the most incredible frost – something I’ve not had since I was a child at school in the frozen fields at 55 Amy Street, Ellerslie. Otherwise known as Michael…
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Dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot…
We are stuck in a loop with BT – nobody at their offshore faults centre can understand the concept that the house still has the old phone number and they need to reassign our new phone number, with the broadband package, to our house! It’s been a week with hours a day spent on the…