Anknel and Burblets

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

  • Weekend away at Le Citizen Hotel – Canal St Martin, Paris

    We are in Paris. Staying at Le Citizen Hotel. It’s a great area the 10th. I have never loved a part of Paris so much. I remember coming here ten years ago for dinner and I could never remember where it was, apart from, near a canal. Well, here we are – and it just…

  • Farrow and Ball feature walls

    If you’re like me and not much of a pattern person a great idea is to paint one wall in a room a bold feature colour and the rest of the room in a lighter shade. If you liked the Menerbes house you’ll definitely be happy enveloped by simple and striking painted walls. My favourite…

  • Berlin style secrets – for your interior

    Advertorial Fashion for Home is a Berlin-based furniture design company working to the ethos that great design should be accessible to everyone – at a price that’s affordable. They really have a wide range to suit all tastes, from classical and rustic to minimal and modern. Their range encompasses living, dining, bedroom and office. Everyone…

  • Easy meringue hack

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  • Playing dress up

    On the weekends you’ll know by now that we go to Melrose and Morgan first thing each morning. Last week the girls wanted fancy meringues. Being on our current slightly tight budget we opted to buy one plain meringue, take it home and dress it up. Another of our weekend excursions is to the Newington…

  • Menerbes

    In July we went away to France. We’d booked it back in January. We were in paradise. Beautiful pool. Divine interior. Walled garden. Happy children. Parents who could relax. Ah. Le Sigh.

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  • Still going strong

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  • The juice fast – day 7

    Can’t think of another suitable name yet, so it’s still the juice fast. Which includes smoothies. I used to eat very little when I was a teenager. I weighed 50kg. I also used to fast, and I’d find it very easy and I always felt brilliant after a little fast. I think the longest was…

  • Angfurten trip

    Back when it was Jubilee weekend I took the family to see my old (host) family in the countryside in Germany. It was hot. And the countryside was beautiful. And of course it was brilliant to introduce everyone to everyone (host family meet family). We sat outside in the late evening sunshine. Norbert and Ingo…

  • Tuna and Leek Tart (or how I put on 5kg in France)

    In France you can buy pre-rolled organic pastry (already shaped in a circle for flans and tarts) for 1 euro at the supermarket. And in the house we stayed at in France there were loads of flan dishes and they had an amazing hot, fast oven. We ate tuna and leek tart one day, Alsace…

  • Juice fast day 6

    Now I’ve had soup and a smoothie I’m not technically fasting. What I’m doing is creating my own version of the Cambridge Diet. A friend lost 40kgs on it and I was going to go on it but I’m happy making up my own diet and using lovely fresh fruit and vegetables, and once the…