24/30: A moo point

Way back in the summer – remember that time? – Suzy turned up one afternoon with a craft for us to do. A craft! She had a couple of little papier mâché animals and a packet of patterned tissue paper, a couple of brushes and a pot of glue. I took the cow and we [...]

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6/30: A little sewing

I needed a plastic bag today and knew that a particular one was in my craft box keeping a couple of bits and pieces together. As it happened, the plastic bag wasn’t big enough for what I needed, but the contents of the bag ended up keeping me occupied for the rest of the afternoon. [...]

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One week

We all made another trip to visit the new family yesterday. Mum and Dad had been the day before too, but as that particular visit had been initiated at 2am, I didn’t accompany them on that one. Sam had a problem with her c-section wound, which has fortunately turned out to be a couple of [...]

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Nothing ventured …

For a long time I’ve wanted to do something “more” with my photography, and I’ve finally found a way I like, putting the ideas into HTML and CSS at last. Since the new year I’ve been working on a new site to showcase some of my favourite shots, which can now be bought as prints, [...]

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So that was Christmas

And what did I do? Well there was 7 Days in the week running up to Christmas and I seemed to spend a lot of that time in the kitchen. Before that week I was quite quiet on the blog and Flickr, something for which I was heckled by Ray (Who? Ray!) when I spoke [...]

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7 Days: Day 4 – Random tasks

While I attempted to fight off a slightly sore throat I did some random tasks today. The join between the new kitchen and the office is an arch rather than a doorway and the line between the kitchen’s new plaster and the office’s wallpaper needed tidying up. So out came my paintbrush. I rather enjoy [...]

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Caffeine protection duty

It occurred to me this morning that a vital element was missing from my Café Press shop. While I already had various T-shirts available with the “Danger of death if interfered with” sign I’d seen in Norfolk, there were no mugs or other drinks containers in the shop. I rectified this forthwith, because if there’s [...]

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7 Days: Day 2 – Treat

Making treats for the birds out of melted lard, chopped up lamb and fat, mixed together with a big bunch of bird seed. The ordinary bird feeders have been refilled and when the coconut half and fir cones full of the lardy seed mixture have hardened, the birds can have those to peck at too [...]

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