Sunday, 6 January 2013

Eversoknac... worn out...

Can't wait to start work again on Monday.  It's been such a restful break, what with moving house and stuff.  All in all I would have to concur that house-moving is not entirely fun, although the new place is utterly delightful and a perfect place for Christmas, wood burners, Aga and all.  Unfortunately it's only temporary, so the hunt continues, but I'm absolutely determined to enjoy it for the time we're here.  Hopefully I will find some time to photograph how the light pours in through the huge sash windows in the kitchen in the mornings, and the misty view over the fields.  Oh, and apparently there's a ghost, although I haven't met her, unless she's the one who opened the front door when I was falling into it with an armful of last-minute presents, in which case I didn't forget to say Thank You. Phew.

Christmas was a bit sparse, in terms of homemade stuff, but I did manage to chuck in a birdie theme and throw together a cake.


I've decided to leave the wreath, on the basis that it's not overly Christmassy and I really like it.
That's all folks.

Oh, and anyone who needs the new address, let me know.  It will probably help if I know you.x

Sunday, 23 September 2012

Guess who's back...... back again...

Ok, so I didn't have time for this.
I actually don't have time for anything.
But it was important.

Oh, and on a side note, I always seem to be at the wrong end of the seasons.  Forgive me, there's always next year.  And the faint hope that summer will somehow make a glorious comeback and hang around until about December, and then it will snow and be quite lovely.  For about a month.

So yes, the bbq fell apart about a month ago, after a long and arduous life of being left out all year, and  being used as a mini-bonfire, and having wet stuff left in it for months.  So I've been looking around for another one and wondering why they always have to come in alpha-male colours like forest green.

I found this...


Isn't she a beauty?  No, quite horrible.  But it was sold to me (for a very badly-haggled fiver) at a car boot sale by an utterly charming gentleman - clearly not a regular -  who later announced, 'my dear, I'm so thrilled to get rid of it I'd have paid you five pounds to take it away!'

Black and green - how practical.  Won't show the dirt.  Pfff.

Look at it now...



... a retro futuristic space-age masterpiece in silver and pink, worthy of The Jetsons' final frontier.
Who needs practical?x