Memorial

William Maurice Eason 3 April 1942 – 24 February 2007 Fond memories today of lovely Bill.

Crafty Amazingness

Last year when I had a rare crafternoon with Julia (and my sewing machine jammed irretrievably), she was working on the most incredible paper cutting delights with some old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Imagine my joy when she presented us with our very own masterpiece for Christmas: Here is a side view, including the lovely […]

Clothes Swap

What is the best way to round off a wintry weekend at the end of January? Swapping clothes with a dozen other women of excellent taste! This weekend Julia opened her home and her rumpus room to a Clothes Swap Party. The idea is simple and sociable. Invite a group of your friends to come […]

Celebration

Things are happening rather fast around here suddenly. Two weeks ago we celebrated Kazuo’s first birthday, and as I already mentioned, we’d all been rather ill with a gastric flu, so we postponed the party for a week so he could properly recover. So the actual day was spent just with Mama and Dada and […]

I Did It!

In case you missed it, (though with such relentless output from me, how could you not notice?), November was National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) for me. I joined up a month ago and I pledged to post religiously all month. So I saturated the blogosphere with my inanity. Sorry. A month on, what have I […]

Knitting Progress

A few weeks ago I met a lovely woman at my new favourite mother-meeting spot – Winslow’s Home, which seems to be a great place to bump into other people who like homely little stores and coffee with their babies. It was a lovely sunny day, so we were all sitting outside, I was entertaining […]

Wish List

Well, I don’t consider myself unnaturally materialistic – but then, who does? Nor have I really spent that much on myself this past year (certainly a lot less than usual) and I don’t actually subscribe to the idea of unncessary acquistion. In fact, I rather think that the overt commercialisation of the winter holidays massively […]

Smoky Lentil Goodness

Tuesday was a cold sort of day and I felt like a little Autumnal Lentil warmth. I had in mind to make a French-style puy lentil stew that I made a while back (recipe pending) because I loved the nutty texture of the little hard lentils. But when I went to the cupboard, all I […]

Thanksgiving Gratitude

When I took up the NaBloPoMo challenge this month, I pledged also to try and be a little thankful daily. This has not been too hard… though perhaps a little twee for those of you who have been reading. But big or small, there are things each day that force me to look up and […]

Dogs

I’ve always been a bit wary of dogs. Perhaps it was growing up in a non-pet family. We had the occasional pet like the odd fish and a couple of kittens that came to premature ends due to our suburban life (cars and cats… not a good mix), but never any enduring critters. Perhaps it […]