mumblings

I didn’t expect to get a postcard from pao! Thank you, pao! It is great!!

What a joyful reason for a bank holiday and an extra day off for pao! We rolled up at his nan’s house just in time to start seeing the royal parents and grandparents arriving at church and in plenty of time for the main event. Kate wore such a beautiful dress and carried such a [...]

Lots of postcards arriving now! From Sandra in France! Doesn’t this remind you of Sirius? From Jan in the USA From Shelly – how did she know that I adore Emily Dickinson?! This one has a nifty secret – I found the flap (eventually)! From Diane in Des Moines, USA. A quilted one from Randi [...]

I waited and waited by the letterbox but no envelope with a royal summons arrived for me so I’ll just have to make do with watching it on TV trying not to think about this video!! Royal weddingness Royal wedding cake – Willi-Yum and Cheese-Kate, anyone? You know the world has gone slightly bonkers when [...]

Postcards are arriving thick and fast now.. from very exciting places. It is fantastic waiting for the postman to arrive as I never know where the next one will be from! This one from Karin in the Netherlands came in really cool paper. It is such a fab postcard, too! Thanks, Karin! Sirius’ main concern [...]

I made another tiara whilst I was at the craft fair in Folkestone this weekend. This one has sea green and violet Swarovski’s in with freshwater pearls. I was thinking of the beautiful seaside as I was making it with the sea breeze blowing in from Folkestone Harbour. I finished off this one on the [...]

Happy Easter to one and all! What a wonderful spring day we’ve had here in England. It has been really really odd – no rain for days and unseasonably warm weather. Weird but a nice Easter surprise. pao and I don’t exchange Easter chocolate normally but he bought me this giant pink kiss (I love [...]

The kittens – they are plotting.. I wonder what they are after. Any ideas?

I’ve been encouraging pao to take some time out to ease himself back into work and we took a mid-week day to go and visit a nearby garden, the Secret Gardens at the Salutation in Sandwich. What a treat it was and it really was a day to take time out to smell the flowers [...]

It has been a good day but really busy. I had a cry for help last night and spent a couple of hours helping some friends by removing some nasty malware from their PC. Yuck – malware is horrible. After that I got to meet some lovely friends for lunch then whizz pao home again [...]