Category: Adventure

  • my perfect garden

    Just down the road a little old lady has a wonderful meadow garden. Ours never had the chance to establish itself but this is exactly what we’re after. Vegetables in amongst the flowers and flowers everywhere. Perfect! I felt a little bit naughty taking photos so these don’t quite capture the full magnificence of it…

  • closing time

    Tomorrow we’re going to buy me an ipod. It’s not so much the thing of buying a thing. Today it’s the choice between music and drugs. Not fun drugs but the drugs doctors hand out. And I’m not much of a one for the doctor. Today I said well look I’m already going to go…

  • camp richmond

    Here we are a week later. We’ve sorted and sold and thrown away and packed. The cats are in Auckland already. We’re at my brother’s in Richmond another week. It’s a bit of a utopia once one hits the river path. On Sunday we walked to St Margarets village and down to the playground. It…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • sun sun sun

    So of course we want to stay in London now. Till Autumn anyway.

  • sun

    Today the sun came out and we walked for hours and hours.

  • some old holiday snaps

    Can’t wait for more holidays like this. Ah yes, and I deleted all my projects off Ravelry. Apologies for any dead links.

  • wednesday

    This morning was lovely and quiet with Astrid out at daycare. Edith and I had a sleep on the sofa. This afternoon we collected Astrid and walked across the Heath to Swain’s Lane for coffee. It’s really starting to feel like Spring. The London sky has changed. The air is getting that lovely Summer haze.…

  • dear universe…

    Thank you very much for listening the other day when you and I had some serious words. Thank you for materialising work for Kevin so I can stay at home with the girls. Thank you for dropping some money from the sky when we so seriously needed it. Thank you for making sure Edith was…

  • Astrid says

    …how many cakes have you baked since the last one? A: quite a few. Astrid likes cake. Especially the new ones mummy has been baking. From her new cookbook – Off the Shelf. The recipe for raspberry and peach tart that mummy has totally changed, using almond meal and spelt flour and different berries each…

  • Joomla menu items

    Today I forgot how to make menu items show up in Joomla. I typed in can’t make menus work in Joomla, menus not showing up in Joomla, menus not working in Joomla. The secret was to create : sections categories articles menus menu items then create modules as well. The secret lies in creating modules…