This time last year I was four months into the New Years Resolution Club, a monthly club for ladies who wanted to achieve goals. We set ourselves targets and then during the following month tried to make progress on that target. During the first few sessions we were encouraged to create moodboards and think about Read more about Things to make – some reflections on my first bits of making to sell[…]
A new exhibition of William Blake works has just opened at the Ashmolean Museum and so a Live Friday was held to mark the occasion, we met up with friends David and Yuan Yuan, first for a fantastic meal at Shanghai 30s and then to experience the late night delights. And what delights there were! Read more about Late with Blake[…]
A few months ago Jam’s dad gave me this beautiful corner chair, the seat was broken and he thought I’d enjoy the challenge of fixing it. It’s been say in the spare room for a couple of months till I realised the most wonderful Ardington School of craft had a re-caining course. A place was Read more about Not rushing – recaining a chair[…]
I’ve been squirreling away at my desk these past few weeks which is why the blog has been a bit quiet (that and I’ve got a few gig reviews to put up but they are somewhat still ‘coming together’ & so far all I can say about them is that they were awesome, must try Read more about Just like that my first lot of made things heads out into the world[…]
This was me, laid out on our bed, feeling very itchy on Tuesday night. Two years ago I had a really bad reaction to something that brought me out in blisters on both my right and left hands. After that initial bad reaction I started to get tiny bubbles appearing on the tips of my Read more about A week I’m pleased to see the back off[…]
Last night I took Jam to the New Theatre to see The Illusionists, a collection of seven magicians who tour together. The show started with the escape expert (who was suspended upside down from the ceiling in a straight jacket, obviously) escaping. Before a full size steam train appeared on on the stage. There were Read more about It’s a kind of Magic[…]
I don’t usually write about what I watch on TV. Mostly because I don’t watch a lot of it, or that when I do it’s to try and turn off from thinking so the stuff that I watch tends to be mostly without merit. I feel I must however mention the two things I have Read more about What’s been on the box[…]
So this weekend was the big one for me, after not much training at all (no really I went down with the flueyest of flu’s when I was supposed to be practicing running, I wasnt even playing football, yes it was that bad). I did what any normal person would do on a Sunday morning, Read more about Santa run & carolling[…]
Okay originally I had planned to do an update on my New Years Resolutions at New Years however then I arrived home to the nearly flood (as it shall henceforth be known) so plumbing took top priority (and has done ever since actually, although it now looks like our tank will be replaced in the Read more about Doing something scary, a delayed NYD post[…]