Ceilidh celebrations

The dress code for Suzy’s party was a little more flattering than last time, being as it was just a splash of tartan. I had absolutely no tartan and so took to Ebay to see what I could find. I settled on a skirt originally from H&M and it turned up in plenty of time [...]

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Lady Godiva

Suzy celebrated her 30th birthday at the weekend with a ceilidh, which is a party with Scottish or Irish folk music and dancing. It was hilarious fun and I’ll post more about the party, but for now, here’s a taster of the dancing.

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I love the internet

Especially when Dr. Todd Quinlan sends me some innuendo.

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Two little bandits

Anya and Lily sort of standing up, with minimal leaning on the sofa and a lot of applause – from both themselves and their audience.

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Hippeastrum new year!

It turns out that the flower bulb I was given for my birthday is a hippeastrum. How do I know this? Well, thanks to Ray I knew it would be an amaryllis or hippeastrum, so when it flowered on new year’s day (what show-off timing) I knew what to google. The flower is a Butterfly [...]

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Avocado leaves

A few days after I last blogged the avocado’s progress, I followed the given advice and nipped out the top leaves. The idea being that the avocado now focuses its energy less on the growing long and spindly side of things and more on the work of getting a bit bushier. I’m not sure the [...]

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New Year

Happy new year, folks. I hope you celebrated appropriately and that someone called you on new year’s eve and said, “Hey, happy new year, let’s go for a walk and have lunch tomorrow!” And that you looked at the weather forecast, saw that it would be cloudy, but dry and agreed to the plan. That’s [...]

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