Category: Adventure
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Notes from a small island
Thirty eight weeks yesterday. And we’re on the mend. Today I redeemed my New Sewing Machine For Christmas voucher at John Lewis. Today I didn’t spend twenty quid on a cab. Today the bus driver let me on free when my card failed. Today I sat next to a lovely lady on the bus who…
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To the islands
porcelain flower by ande – astrid’s second grandma A few people have asked me why we came here, as in back to London. A few reasons really. One of the main reasons, in fact the very most main reason that was the one that overrode all the doubts that arose in the weeks before we…
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us and the bump we go walking
Lovely Shops has been updated including Yvestown + Shinzi Katoh, an amazing exhibition of creatures, the new Cath Kidston site and some rather delicious body creams at Beauty Expert. Did I mention I now have a terrible cold? This is on top of losing my voice a few weeks ago, not to mention the nocturnal…
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Here we are, Kimberlee
Another gorgeous London weekend. Yesterday, the last day of Summer, we walked all the way up to the top of the Heath and back down to Hampstead, looking for a coat for little Miss A. Don’t get me started on people in shops telling me, “oh, but those are girl’s boots”. I am not dressing…
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A drop of summer
Sunday was perfect. Beautiful and cloudless. Warm but not hot. Up early and out for breakfast. A long walk on the heath. A tired child who will sleep. Fruit for lunch. A day for knitting. A day for quiet. Cats outside playing. Time to cook. Time for reading. Time for more knitting. A perfect, lovely,…
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On my last day at work…
I remembered to take the little camera in to document my journey. Out the gate, into very late Summer… Down the road and around the corner to the 24 bus stop. Then on to Warren Street where I get off and it’s a stone’s throw to Euston Square station. Onto the Eastbound platform where I…
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I have no idea
…where this came from. I think a little flax-berry eating bird must have sent it. Which means I had now really better sort myelf out and start sewing. And I really do have to say the grey forest double knit is just heaven. All I want to do it hem the whole three metres and…
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All the things I want to write about
(but don’t have time to) Do you know I get up, get ready, leave the house by 7.45am. Get to work around 9am after I’ve been and got a proper flat white from the Spitalfields Coffee House. Work until 5.45 or 6pm and get home around 7.15pm. Then we cook and eat by about 8.15pm…
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My little mezzanine
When I was little I used to like designing interiors. I would design fairy houses set in huge old tree trunks and plan rabbit warrens of rooms and sketch out the furniture placement and which way the doors would open. As I grew older I did the seating plans at school – I would draw…
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London, sweet London
Oh it’s so good to be back. Better than we’d ever imagined in fact. We’ve walked and walked and walked and walked. Through Soho, from here to Camden, back to Belsize Park, up to Hampstead, around the Heath, through the City, up to Hackney and from here to South End Green countless times. We’ve walked…
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Incommunicado
I have a slight suspicion my blog has been broken into and I hope I’ve fixed it now. So I’ve just spent half this beautiful Sunday afternoon online, borrowing files from other sites because I can’t hook my little lacie drive up to Steve’s pc – a long and boring story. But it’s too beautiful…
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At the airport
Two hours till we board. Off to play with Anna Sui cosmetics before we decide what to eat. Probably toast and peanut butter for me and sweet toast for K and AÂ with lime juice all round. Or parma ham pizza. And lime juice. Today we went to Little India -Â lots of terribly exotic (to me)…