Anknel and Burblets

Category: Adventure

  • The wrong pants for gardening

    Oh good lord it was too cold to go in the garden yesterday. But garden we did. I wanted an activity the girls to do at home to shake off some energy so I could sneak in some more photo editing. But in the end I erred on the side of being out there to…

  • Autumn by the Heath

    Photos from my Lovely UK flickr stream Well. It would seem we are having an indian summer. People are posting images of the weather forecast on their blogs and twitter streams. Melrose and Morgan have invited us up for coffee and cake. I have fallen off my diet. But who cares because the sun is…

  • A missing post

    Sometimes I hide things later. Being a secretive Pisces. Who sometimes stays up late and writes silly things. And sometimes people see those silly things and save them. Sometimes they like those silly ideas I have very late at night and so perhaps they weren’t so silly after all. Yvonne saved this one for me.…

  • Los Girlios

    Here they are. Dragon and crocodile. You like them. Mummy does too. Mummy likes T H I N G S. ps. I am sorry about the missing photos. I have no idea what has happened. If you click the missing photo icon you can see the jolly photo.

  • Columbia Road Flower Market

    This is the second time I’ve posted this weekend. How can that be? Well. It’s because my last six month contract finished. And I have my life back. Thank you kindly new contract for that. I’ve even spent most of the weekend in the kitchen – oh happy days. Because we’ve got Carla over from…

  • New paint

    Well, we have lived in our dream ramshackle house by the heath for almost a year. Perhaps, just over half a year. And we adore it for its rusticness. And we adore it because it’s the right house for us. We were very lucky our landlords wanted to paint it. Because it hadn’t been painted…

  • The Dragon of Gordes

    Wow mummy look at the castle! Who lives in there? Well. Who do you think lives in the castle Astrid? A Queen? And a King. Anybody else? Well. Perhaps a Princess, and a Prince. Yes! A Prince and a Princess. Who else lives in the castle mummy? Do you think they have a doggie? Yes,…

  • The Luberon

    Here we are in the most beautiful part of the South of France, the Luberon. It’s Sunday and we went to Isle sur la Sorgue market, in search of antiques. This trip my sense of direction has entirely failed me. It took three hours to drive here from the airport – probably a one hour…

  • A bit of a dry spell

    Oh I wish it would have rained a bit more in April. It barely rained at all. We go on our long walks on the Heath with the girls now, carefully avoiding the playground but not necessarily the ice cream van. We walk up to Kite Hill and there are rivulets of dry cracked earth…

  • Yvonne came to stay

    And look at that. What a smile she put on Astrid’s face. NOT that you can tell from either photo that Astrid and Edith were really happy this morning. They loved having a visitor. And they loved even better new dresses from HEMA!

  • Don’t shake to shuffle

    Man it pays to google. I have been out running and the songs just keep on jumping and only playing for 10 seconds before shuffling again. It’s been driving me nuts! But I have just discovered the ‘shake to shuffle’ setting. Which I have now officially switched OFF. In the good news department I’m back…

  • Things to do in Hamburg

    Places to visit next week: Mutterland The most amazing looking food shop ever. Evertything is Made in Germany. MUTTERLAND Stammhaus – this looks like the big one to visit Ernst-Merck-Straße 9 Ecke Kirchenallee 20099 Hamburg / St. Georg S+U-Bahn Hauptbahnhof – Ausgang Kirchenallee / Lange Reihe Geöffnet: Montag – Samstag 8.00 – 21.00 Uhr, Sonntag…