Anknel and Burblets

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

  • Homemade almond milk – a taste revelation!

    This stuff is the nectar of the Gods. Blended with frozen fruit and agave it’s the nectar of the Gods of the Gods. The minute I tasted this I sprinted upstairs for my camera because I just had to share this right away. It’s incredible. It’s silky. It’s nutty. It tastes just like the best…

  • Hop Hop. Time for Easter crafting supplies!

    Because I get upset when good things sell out I bought our Easter crafting supplies last week. March 29th is Good Friday and Easter Monday is April the 1st. This of course means I am going to have the kids at home for two whole weeks so I needed a bit of budget for Easter…

  • Ready, steady, work

    Welcome to my new little attic office. It’s little alright, but now I’ve tidied and arranged it I love it. I even have my own snowy view today. The sheep are there. And there’s the valley. My view changes every day and I love watching the seasons go by. This is where I… Write my…

  • Curried cauliflower salad

    Written for Sister Mag Daylesford feature. Recipe at Lovely Food.

  • Four oh dreams

    Well. Here it is. My fortieth birthday. I felt the sun rise in Aotearoa last night here in the UK. The girls and I danced and danced and laughed and laughed. Spinning her around, Astrid was happy as she could be. I felt the world move. It was pure love and joy. This past year…

  • Dreaming of warm days and country lanes

    We had another gorgeous day today. It just began to warm up in the afternoon. In fact it was an amazing day today. I had three hours of book writing and then as usual I left myself just five minutes to get Edith – from desk to nursery! I usually make it driving like a…

  • Bless this day our daily bread

    White spelt bread – recipe at Lovely Food This was in the back of my mind this morning. And I think it’s not quite the right words for the Lord’s Prayer. Which we used to say every morning at school. But it reminded me to find the verse I heard at the Wynstones open day…

  • Amsterdam to Oxfordshire

    Being here has certainly given me a lot of headroom. The past few days I’ve got both girls at school and nursery and the builders seem to not be here quite so much and things can begin to be put in place. Finishing touches. And time for reflection. The snow’s gone now. Thank goodness. We…

  • Home made pizza

    Since we’ve left the madness of London behind, the crowds, the kebab shops, the off licences everywhere, signs with depressing news headlines, fag butts in the gutter, buildings everywhere and red buses going past, cars beeping, people running red lights – all those things and many good things too. Since we’ve left all that behind…

  • Little interior snippets

    It’s taken weeks of unravelling, arranging, throwing away, sorting and fine-tuning and at last the little dining area is almost done. My job as a UX was pretty much the same – refining information or commands down into the perfect order, of the perfect amount of the right thing. Looking at my Pinterest boards now…

  • In the Cotswolds countryside

    Well, we’ve been here nearly three weeks. Or is it nearly four weeks? We’ve had sunshine, we’ve had snow, we’ve had a howling wind. We’ve had the most incredible frost – something I’ve not had since I was a child at school in the frozen fields at 55 Amy Street, Ellerslie. Otherwise known as Michael…

  • Dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot…

    We are stuck in a loop with BT – nobody at their offshore faults centre can understand the concept that the house still has the old phone number and they need to reassign our new phone number, with the broadband package, to our house! It’s been a week with hours a day spent on the…