Wednesday 10 December 2008
Yesterday Gordon and I went Christmas shopping together in Taunton. It’s something we do just the once; Gordon buys presents for me and I end up desperately looking for something to give everyone else. I’m not sure how that came about, but it’s fairly clear that he gets the better part of [...]
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Thomas Is Home
Posted in Days Out, Eating Out, cats, crafts, cross-stitch, family, farm, home, shopping on 10 December 2008 | 3 Comments »
Is it Christmas yet?
Posted in crafts, family, home, shopping on 8 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday 8 September 2008
At my craft club yesterday we were making Christmas cards, not top of my list of favourite things to do, although I do like making cards. Actually, once I’d got into it I enjoyed myself with my ‘blue Christmas’ and paper-folding. Helen, the lady who organises the group, works for do-crafts so [...]
Elderberries
Posted in crafts, family, garden, photography on 7 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sunday 7 September 2008
I read somewhere recently that elderberries are very helpful in preventing colds so whilst I was outside yesterday I picked and ate a couple. Yuck, they’re horrible! If you know what an elder bush smells like you’ll have some idea of how the berries taste. I would definitely not recommend them in [...]
Sunday 20 July 2008
Posted in crafts, cross-stitch on 20 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
Some time just after Christmas last year, I stopped stitching. I’d been working on various cross-stitch projects almost continuously from the early 1990s and producing large pictures at the rate of about three a year, but suddenly I wasn’t enjoying it any more. It was almost as if the whole idea of picking up my [...]
Sunday 6 July 2008
Posted in cats, crafts, family, farm, friends, home on 6 July 2008 | 2 Comments »
The party yesterday evening was given by the mother of a school friend of mine. We reunited, after many years of hardly seeing each other, in the oncology department at Musgrove Park Hospital where she’s being treated with multiple sessions of chemotherapy. It’s hardly an auspicious place to meet. The party was intended as a [...]
Apple Blossom
Posted in crafts, family, farm, garden, home, photography on 5 May 2008 | 1 Comment »
The day started so well, but in my ignorance I failed to remember this is usually a bad omen! I milked, Steph made a lovely breakfast, Gordon showed a bit of interest in tidying up the garden as well as planning a few modifications, I wandered around and took some photos of the apple blossom [...]
