It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Fuzzle was here for most of the first week – it was great to see her, and we had loads of fun (plus she cooked the most amazing enchilladas for dinner one night – who knew she’d turn out such a good cook after all those barely edible…
but look at my table! I’m so pleased with how it turned out! It still needs to be varnished (probably not this weekend, because it’s raining so I can’t do it outside, and I don’t feel like stinking out the house with polyurethane), and like the other one, I need to figure out something for…
Look what was waiting for me in my letterbox when I got home tonight: Yep, the wonderful Yetzirah sent me a copy of her watercolour cat! And a bonus little bird! Thanks Yetzirah – they’re just as gorgeous in person as they were on the screen. I’ll have to go in search of a…
I think our drought has officially broken. After a long dry summer when we’d all forgotten what rain is, two days of pouring rain (with several more to come, by the look of it) have reminded us. It’s a bit of a shock, suddenly being all cold and miserable like this – I’m definitely not…
Thanks for the giggle, L! (And for the letter – it’s exactly what I needed)
Mojosmom’s suggestion of a peach cobbler sent me off to Google. I’d only ever encountered cobblers in fiction, but Google quickly turned up a plethora of recipes, all completely different. In the end I found one that seemed to resemble what she’d described, so (after a bit of tweaking to adapt it to metric measurements,…
A mysterious gift of marmite just appeared in our hallway (at least, I assume it just arrived – I’m pretty certain it wasn’t there last time I walked past). Neither of us heard it arrive, but it’s a lovely day so the front door is wide open, so whoever it was obviously just popped it…
ime is rapidly running out on my holidays, but I’m kind of looking forward to going back to work – this year is going to be full of all sorts of interesting challenges which I want to get stuck into. I could very easily get used to this leisurely lifestyle though 🙂 Not that the…
enny is a serious knitter. She knits vastly complicated patterns that actually turn into wearable clothing, using the sorts of fancy expensive wool that you have to be pretty confident about your ability to spend that much money on. And she’s been trying to tempt me for ages to pick up some needles – a…
he “Pallet Pavillion” on the site of the old Park Royal was opened today. It’s another Gap Filler project, a venue for music or community events, or pretty much anything really. It’s an amazing space, made almost entirely out of old packing pallets, complete with tables and chairs (made out of vege bins) and a…