Every year as part of the Literature festival a ‘chancellors’ Lecture takes place, someone is invited by the chancellor of the univesity to sit and chat with him. This year it was the turn of Vikram Seth. It is no secret in our house that I think Vikram Seth a VERY fine writer (An Equal Read more about Vikram Seth comes to Oxford[…]
(First photo Sophie and the amazing cake she made for sports relief, isn’t it pretty???). Life in the house is suprisingly busy of late, I’ve got a comission for 100m of bunting for a friends wedding (they had bunting on the invitations so we are trying to match that, the main colours are candy pink, Read more about creating[…]
So tonight we gathered to have the official send off (from single life) to my friend Lea. The wedding isn’t until late April but Lea very sensibly decided to have the drinking lots and dancing part a whiole before. The girls went to a burleque dance workshop during the afternoon (sadly I couldn’t join them Read more about Lea’s hen do[…]
This year my work team gained a new member, I was more involved that usual interviewing and training our new recuit. But fantastically she is awesome and a keen baker. So for her birthday I decided to bake for her. I went for death by chocolate (pictured being held by the birthday girl). Sophie had Read more about Sophie’s Birthday cakes[…]
Last year on one of my first dates with Jam, I got taken to see Fautus at Blackwells Bookshop. It was incredible, the production itself was fresh and had loads of detail put into it by some very clever use of props and limited actors (and the setting of the bookshop, seeing a literary work amongst Read more about Hamlet at Blackwell’s bookshop[…]