Hurrah! More Simon’s cat! Here are some more of those random fun things I found Cupcakes for knitters, anyone? Cats with thumbs! The 60s LOL-cat Etti-Cat Star Wars Kitties. I think No 10 looks scarily like Tamyra and 15 like Sirius!! This massive kitty made me think of Jabba the Hut! Luckily he is in [...]
My friend Rachel is a very talented artist who makes gorgeous handpainted china and recently she has started making buttons. I had been dreaming about what I could do with them and am very excited about these necklaces. I have 12 buttons I bought from her. I fell in love with this one immediately and [...]
I bought this beautiful fossil for the princely sum of 50 pence a little while ago and have been toying with ideas of what to do with it. I think it would look fabulous with obsidian beads as a necklace but equally it would look nice as a simple brooch. Any ideas?
The guy who runs the library van looked at me extremely quizzically when I asked him to reserve this for me. I think he thought I was having him on until I told him that it was the novel behind the Bladerunner film. We are reading this for book group this month as we decided [...]
Do you know the expression: “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight. red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning.” I just happened to be passing the window when I saw this amazing sunset. Looks like tomorrow will be a beautiful day if this sunset has anything to do with it. I hope that your day has [...]
I’ve not had a good track record with any of McCall Smith’s books apart from the Mma Ramotswe series but I thought I’d give it another go! The World According to Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith This is the fourth of the 44 Scotland Street series that McCall Smith has written about the inhabitants of [...]
Shamelessly stolen from Kristi again 1. Silver Pebble is a favourite as she makes the most amazing silver jewellery which she sells in her Etsy shop. I’m lusting after this beautiful necklace of sempervivums. It is always love to read her blog and she organises something called a Splash of Colour you may have seen [...]
Regular readers will recall that every Christmas Eve for the past few years we have been to Leeds Castle. I thought I’d banish away the winter blues (it is extremely cold outside) with some unpublished photos of that day last year. It was unusual last year as we visited not long after we’d had quite [...]
My good friend Eileen recommended Anne Perry to me a long while ago and I saw this in the library van last week so thought I’d give it a read. Anne Perry is the author of Monk which we have on TV here and I enjoy. I’m hoping to read some of the Monk novels [...]
What a difference from when he was tiny? Sirius seems to be getting taller this month! Personality-wise, he is very very timid. He was quite assertive with his brother when he was little but pao thinks he is hen-pecked by Tamyra. I sometimes take him off to a room by himself and encourage him to [...]