Category: Home
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Home, again
It feels like the run for the finish line is over. Almost. Unpacking and sorting aside. The home we’ve dreamed of. The big London home. With a proper country kitchen. And all white walls. And wooden floors. The home with the sage green front door and a huge old rambling rose tree in the front…
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Bread glorious breadmaker
Spelt flour bread For the past few years every time we go up to Leeds to visit the family we wake up to gorgeous freshly baked bread machine bread. And finally the other week when I saw the new Panasonic breadmaker was out I caved in and bought one too.
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Adventures at home
The girls love the little path down the side of the house where they take their brooms and hide on the little porch where there are taps to play with. It’s a lovely gentle English summer, if not a touch chilly. Life is brilliant fun – mostly. Daddy even bought mummy a new red KitchenAid…
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Magical England
Ah look. Here we are again. Back in civilisation. Back into the Garden of Eden. The magical English summer is upon us. Or perhaps we are upon it. The gentle sun. Pretty trees and hedgerows, wildflowers by the roadside, a sparkling river and friendly, helpful people, happy to talk about the glistening weather. Today we move…
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No photos please
All of a sudden Astrid won’t let me take her photo. And the camera lead crapped out. So there haven’t been many photos of late. But there will be soon. Because soon soon we’ll be back in London, back on the Heath, back on our epic walks around villages, around the Heath, up to Hampstead…
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Roderick Road
We’ll be back here soon.
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London shopping list
Florist measuring cups from anthropologie Someone said the real reason we’re going to the UK is the shopping. And, while we may have laughed loudly at the time, it is more than likely the truth. Gorgeousness from anthropologie homewares department. Especially these, these and this. And these.
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home
Something I have so far failed to mention. We’re home. We. Are. Home. We’ve got mixed views on being home. The good news is Astrid and Edith are both into the school we came home to get them into. We all miss our walks around the Heath. We all miss the villages in the area…
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I just joined 10:10…
… to take responsibility for reducing my carbon footprint by 10%. Will you?
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I miss Waiheke
A small tribute to our time on Waiheke. I really loved it there and miss it a lot. Getting up early and watching the moon set over the hill. Freezing cold walks down to the bus stop in the dark. We’d catch the bus to the supermarket once a week – kids in backpacks and…
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Busy doing not very much at all
Although I have taken a few photos. And walked in the rain. And on the beach. And up and down our hill a lot. Up to Oneroa. And back. A lot. We’ve been into town once on the ferry. Much of the time we’ve been damp but warm – and the pantry’s now fully stocked.…
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a little book
Lovely styles of London living spaces at amazon.jp Just after edith was born I was emailed out of the blue by a japanese journalist asking if I would like to be interviewed and for them to photograph our house for a book on London interiors. And here it is a few months later – by…