Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family, marshmallows, sukkot on 4 October, 2009 | 1 Comment »
So I’ve just squeeked in with my self-imposed threepost per week deadline!
We had a little Sukkot party yesterday, which was an adventure in many ways.
First, we’d neither of us ever made a sukkah. So we decided to wing it a little, with as little equipment as possible.
So we used some decking and the world’s most [...]
Posted in Beige Extravaganza, Uncategorized, tagged agatha christie, beige extravaganza, family, Tatting on 24 September, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m having quite a productive few days while Batman is away, I’ve even managed to (so far) maintain the illusion of being able to feed and take care of myself.
In the midst of the aforementioned Agatha Christie marathon I have been tatting away like fury.
It all looks terribly impressive, doesn’t it?
You’d never tell that half [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agatha christie, slippers, tea, winter on 22 September, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ok, I’m ready!
I have stopped pining for the end of summer and I am now completely ready to embrace winter. It may have been helped by the purchase of these particularly encompassing slippers.
I am now particularly loathe to do anything that would require me to leave the house or remove them for any reason.
Batman is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cooking, pickles on 7 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is step two of the pickle-making process… (step one here)
The lovely little chilis were from the vegetable collection, they look like tiny aubergines!
Unfortunately the chilis and peppercorns and assorted spices float in the pickle brine, so only the first jar got them, which is a shame because they’re really pretty. Maybe next time I’ll [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on 1 September, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So I am slowly feeling better.. kind of. The back has settled down nicely, but I seem to be reacting badly to the medications I’m on and therefore have been feeling rubbish and existing on the closest thing I can find to Saltines and ginger ale.
In the midst of this not eating, we have received [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ambulance blogs, bed bound, family, gp, medicine, nhs, politics on 27 August, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is not usually a political bog, there are plenty of better-informed people out there to do that for me.
However, sometimes my own experiences coincide with political topics, and it only seems right to discuss them.
You may know that I grew up in the States, and moved to the UK when I was 18, so [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cloudy skies, musings, the inexpressible beauty of gas works on 25 August, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m having a bad day.
Nothing in particular, just one of those days when things that should be really easy take up hours and hours that you had planned to use in all sorts of productive ways. The kind of day where it’s raining and your bus sails right past you…
But I found this photo on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged presents, ribcage necklace, untamed menagerie on 17 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I know I’m a bit biased, but they are pretty damn cool.
How could one fail to be impressed with this?
It’s a perfectly timed late birthday present, just when I was starting to feel a bit un-birthday-ish (it takes me a while, ok?).
I spent a few minutes identifying all the different bits, and then wore it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged core 10 steel, family, manchester, mosi, muserum of science and industry, sunshine, toy cars, unexpected ephemera on 13 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’ve been sightseeing this last week, we had rellies in town and gave them a bit of a whirlwind tour.
We went to the Museum of Science and Industry and decided we didn’t want to work as a hand at any stage of industrial textile production, but that we quite liked engines and other things that [...]
