Most excellently this year May Day was on a Sunday, so Jam and I got up really early and drove into Oxford (after last years shennanigans with my bike getting a puncture and me getting stuck in the rain half way home in full Morris kit, I think this driving plan may well be the Read more about May Day comes again[…]
Writing on the wall (the duo with Chris Sreeves and myself in it) survived our first public outing this weekend with a 20 min set at the form a folk band showcase concert. (More info on http://www.makingmusic-southeast.org.uk/events/?29-Form and more on my experience here Alice is thinking of doing it again this year, so def the Read more about I will survive![…]
My good friend & workee colleague t’other Vikki has just got the photos back from her wedding. So here rocking hankies and cravats made by yours truely are the boys. Looking very smart don’t you think? I’m going to give myself a little break from the sewing now for a bit, have lots of knitting Read more about Photos of my first foray into menswear[…]
I have been wanting to watch Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland for a while now, I completely meant to see it at the cinema but alas life got in the way… Also there is that strange thing that when you live in Oxford with the Alice glass window in Christchurch and the Alice shop you Read more about Alice![…]
So this weekend was Collette’s birthday, in a bizarre twist of fate one of Colette’s closest friends from university was one of my close friends from college (we had no idea of this before we met, and indeed only found out via facebook sometime after). Me and the mutual friend (Joey) had been planning to Read more about Remeber you’re a Woomble![…]
So this weekend I went on the long awaited whittling course, it was run by the Northmoor trust who are the charity who manage local beauty spot whittenham clumps (more info on both these things can be found here www.northmoortrust.co.uk) . I’ve wanted to have a go as whittling for ages (I have a very Read more about How wonderful is Wood?[…]
This week it’s been head down, finishing some of the projects I started a while ago. First up it was the wedding commision from my friend at work. seven cravats with matching hankies for her main men (I got a bit behind with this as the day I’d set aside to finish the hankies we Read more about A severe case of finish-itus[…]
In life, well for me anyway, things tend to go in cycles, you do a lot of one activity/see a lot of someone and then you don’t do that thing/see that person for a while but as soon as you do it/see them again you wonder how you ever coped without it/them. This is true Read more about Alex[…]
So yesterday (Wednesday) we went to see Mogwai, I got into them when I was a teenager, finding their somewhat seminal album Come On Die Young in a bargain bin in action records (go support them online here). I dunno what it was about the album but it really struck a chord with me. Later Read more about Mogwai Magic[…]
So (or should that be sew? 🙂 all I seem to be doing lately is sewing for various different people (all of whom are lovely so that’s okay). The first project was a delayed valentines present for the boy. He is a bit of a tea fiend so what better than to give him some Read more about A stitch in time[…]