Anknel and Burblets

dreams come out my ears and go round my head and i read them.

  • 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.…

  • Our new sofa

    A few weeks ago Kevin and I went to Heal’s and bought the most amazing sofa in the world ever. We knew it was long. And we knew it might not fit up the stairs. But we secretly wished it would fit up the stairs so we bought it anyway. And it doesn’t fit up…

  • Late night baking

    The other night after we got back home from the Zoe and Morgan jewellery preview for next Spring and Summer I discovered we had about four 2kg bags of Riverford apples in the fridge. And some pastry that needed using up. So at 10.30pm it was time to bake an apple pie. I based the…

  • 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…

  • Pesto morning

    While Riverford has got huge bags of Basil, and as I’m currently really into cheese and nuts it seems only the proper thing to do to make Pesto on Saturday mornings. This morning I also marinated aubergines, blended sun-dried tomatoes, and went to the farmers market to buy Buffalo Ricotta and beautiful organic beefsteak tomatoes.…

  • 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…

  • Ah lovely long weekends of Spring

    I must confess I’ve not run in just over a week and I’m feeling it. But we’ve had such lovely weather and I’ve been sorting out my fabric cupboard instead. Making piles of books with post-it notes. Piles of fabric. Waiting for my new ironing board to arrive. We have had two four day weekends.…

  • 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!