Anknel and Burblets

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

  • Time to shop

    at the shop. (All proceeds go to the Moving to London Fund).

  • ‘Normal’

    This year I decided to actually lose the baby-weight I oh so efficiently gained (on medical instruction I might add) in the last two months of pregnancy. I had been so incredibly annoyed with myself every single day last year, that on New Years day I thought fuck it, I’m buying some scales and going…

  • Turning

    Yesterday Astrid took her first steps. Today she left the house for a walk with a new nanny. They’ll be back soon. As the souls of the autumn leaves slip quietly into the sky and their bodies shatter underfoot, another year passes – another circle of time completes. This is my time of year; when…

  • Joomla and Simple Image Gallery Pro

    The pretty photo is for those who came here hoping to find a handmade, baby or garden post and instead found this terribly dry coding post 🙂 I’ve had a few setbacks on the Joomla front and have had to spend such a long time finding solutions I’m writing them here in case they can…

  • Shinzi Katoh shopping

    A friend emailed me a few weeks ago with a link to the Shinzi Katoh shop. I’d done a little research and visited the shop following Leslie’s amazing encounter – but it’s always more motivating when you’ve had a friend tell you you really really must look, NOW! So I had a proper look this…

  • Behind the scenes

    I’m dotting the out-takes from 44 times two around today. In between working, packing and looking after one very teething child I went out barefoot in the rain to pick some autumn flowers. It’s fun looking back through flickr to see last year’s autumnal flower arranging. And to see what else happened today in history.…

  • Totes totes totes

    In the shop shop shop.

  • Milestones

    Yesterday Astrid sat on the chair. She climbed up on her own and sat down. She then climbed up and over the arm of the sofa into the parents-only area (a tray on the back of the sofa) where mummy and daddy put things like remote controls, cups of tea and glasses of wine, Japanese…

  • Helvetica the film

    Can’t wait to see this. A film about my favourite font. Astrid came rather close to being called Helvetica and I dare say the next one might come even closer. Helvetica is a documentary about typography and visual culture – featuring interviews with Eric Spiekermann, Stefan Sagmeister and Neville Brody amongst others. It’s on at…

  • Dreaming of London

    Things are falling into place left, right and centre. Our new home is all organised; we’ll be moving into quite the bohemian cottage – in my old street, only paces from the southern entrance to the Heath – very close to Parliament Hill. Right next door to my best friend, who’s moving back next week.…

  • The best pumpkin in the history of the world

    Available right now at Harvest in Grey Lynn. It is complete and utter true perfection. I might be quite the pumpkin fan. But this is good. Really good. Bright orange outside. Bright orange inside when cooked. A dry-ish, compact texture. Bursting with delicious full pumpkin flavour. Thursday, pumpkin and chorizo risotto. Tonight, peri peri chicken…

  • Shop news ii

    I arrived home from our Saturday morning food shopping ritual to an email from the very talented Deanna of stickmeon letting me know Little Orchard was recently featured in modamuse. Which prompted a long overdue mini shop update. Cute new shoulder bags are in! Pretty little dresses are in! I’m about to go and get…