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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Christmas at home
It was Christmas. The girls got their Sylvanians and they are happy. I got a big surprise present – the Herve Chapelier bag! Who’d have thought? Rufus guarded the dinner table and the bottle of Bolly. The Daylesford turkey was a huge success – we’ve been eating the most delicious turkey stock soup for days…
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Getting ready for Christmas
Today begins the getting-readiness for Christmas. Everyone’s home now, off school, and work has finished for the year. The turkey has arrived from Daylesford. The presents have all arrived from Myriad. My Alsace Muscat has arrived from Berry Bros. Abel and Cole delivers the vegetables today. Cut flowers have been bought and arranged. I’ve found…
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Victoria Sponge
In typical Lovely Food style I use my usual white spelt flour and a bit of almond meal instead of white flour. It makes for a slightly heavier sponge, but it feels a bit more healthy and rustic. Recipe at Lovely Food.
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Sister Mag Daylesford White Christmas feature
A Daylesford White Christmas feature and recipes by moi – from page 132 to 163 in the December issue of Sister Magazine. You’ll see the photos from my rainy market garden trip (where I had my eureka moment) and the recipes I spent the October mid-term week creating up at Honeysuckle Cottage with the girls.…
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Our new life
It’s all signed now. We are moving right after New Year. I’m getting final removals quotes and I am going to start packing next week.The house is a lot smaller than the one we’re currently in so in order to be totally scientific about the move we went up and measured the house over the…
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Paris highlights
Hello to Remodelista readers coming here from Justine’s Ten Belles article! We had a wonderful trip to Canal St Martin, Paris in September – here are the links to my Paris posts. Around Rue des Vinaigriers Ten Belles Le Citizen Hotel du Canal Paris
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The dollmakers of Dalston
Yesterday I took Astrid’s beautiful doll back to the dollmakers to have her arms upgraded to fancy buttoned on ones after Edith pulled them off. I had also asked Mopsa if it was alright if I photographed her house, because it is the most divine house – a rambling, naturally chaotic original victorian terrace house…