Anknel and Burblets

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

  • Astrid’s birthday quilt

    She hated it then. She loves it now. Beautiful beautiful third birthday quilt for beautiful beautiful birthday girl. It’s been a bit of a year for ol’ Astrid what with the arrival of Miss Edith, making such great friends at Lorraine’s in London who she still talks about, then being yanked back to New Zealand…

  • Gardening with intent

    So much to write and show and so many emails to ask if things are ok and they are. I am gardening with ferocious intent. My camera cable breaks after thirty images download and I’m too lazy to do buy one after one failed attempt. Mimi had her first birthday and I need to do…

  • once upon a time

    Charlotte just couldn’t get the words out in public anymore. But really I had planned to write about Astrid. On the 28th of December. Tonight I deleted passages of meaningless text. And bought myself a new domain. But for now the most pressing writing task is to write a meditation upon Astrid. Something I knew…

  • 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…

  • Back in the groove

    Almost. There are four piles of fabric. My sewing room is organised. Tomorrow I’m going to look at linen. For curtains. And tonight I’ll start pinning Astrid’s new quilt. Today I placed my first order from Purl in a very long time, with not a care about import duty or English postal taxes. I got…

  • The sweet sweet smell of Rarotonga

    Into our fifth day at The Beach Place – fittingly right on the beach – at Tikioki, nestled between Muri and Titikavaka on the south eastern coast of Rarotonga. We arrived to blistering hot sun, a lovely long afternoon walk along a tropical plant lined road, on a grassy footpath, up to Muri village shops…

  • Bureau for Visual Affairs

    After months of looking I’ve tracked them down. My favourite design agency. www.bureau-va.com I am also very much loving salted herring and ocean design.

  • Lovely NZ

    … is back! I’ve merged all the sites and we’re now running everything out of Lovely NZ. Please add it to your bloglines – now I’ve got my iPhone hooked up with a decent camera – and to wordpress we’ll be updating regularly.

  • Mexican specialties

    My new favourite shop. Each weekend we make the pilgrimage for refried beans, pinto beans and a good look at their menu. One day we’ll go for lunch. Marua Road, Ellerslie.

  • Sunday sunday

    Hot today. Hot and cloudy. First post direct from the iPhone. Ace!

  • what’s your favourite native bird?

    Vote at the Forest and Bird Society. Here

  • don’t see much

    … of this lot lately. Last night I worked till 1am and I started at 7 this morning. That’s what you get I suppose being an art directar at a big agency.