Hannah, her husband Clive and son join her sister Jill, her daughter Aisha and friend Tristan on holiday at a villa in France. It immediately becomes apparent that Hannah’s life with a steady, dependable husband, part-time job and lovely son is not what she wants and she feels trapped and unhappy in its predictability. Clive [...]
Yesterday’s Ten on a Tuesday was all about dealing with the Winter Blahs. I’d popped up the village to see a friend for a coffee late morning and it was so gorgeous outside I had to take off a layer as the temperature was around 14 degrees higher than it was this time last week [...]
I’m sitting on the sofa after a very long, very dull, very unsatisfying day followed by a dreaded teleconference and definitely feeling a little blah so this is a good day to think about how to beat those blahs. 1. Tea. It fixed the Doctor when he was feeling low. It certainly helps my mood [...]
I posted up some photos of the beautiful and tasty marmalade that mainly pao and myself made yesterday. It is rather delicious The plan to keep some vanilla socks stashed away for some quick knitting is great as I can talk and knit at the same time. My friend Fiona asked if I could teach [...]
I found some very cheap Seville oranges and thought that a little marmalade-making would be a nice weekend activity. pao and I had intended to make marmalade together. But I was feeling tired and grotty. So pao stepped into the breach and got on and starting making it. He is a very neat chopper – [...]
I am pleased to note that I’m slightly ahead in my personal challenge – go me I did find that last year I really didn’t read as much so it is kind of good that I have this goal to achieve throughout the year. Also, I have been using my Kindle a lot more as [...]
Fiona and I went to Sophie’s workshop at the Beaney again today and today’s craft was fabric printing where the intention is that we will make a lovely flower like the one above. We used some very simple blocks made of cardboard and foam. I already knew exactly what I was going to make and [...]
no, no, definitely not! My eyes are very sore for some reason at the moment so I’ve got lots of eye drops and I’m restricting my computer usage until it gets better so I may not be doing a lot of blog reading until my eyes feel better. So I’d better plough on with some [...]
Word Press doesn’t seem to like my extra-long title – the full title is: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson This is one of the 20 pence Kindle books – what a brilliant idea! I even got the Life of Pi for 20 pence. Allan Karlsson has [...]
Our postman knocked on the door this morning and to my great surprise (a. that he arrived in the morning & early and b. he had a huge box in his arms) there was a parcel from the USA. From Jeanne, in fact. And we were bemused to find inside a spanking new cat bed! [...]