With yesterday being the first of December Mel and I dutifully put up most of our Christmas decorations last night (I say dutifully what I mean is that I had been itching to put them up since the 1st of November and last night it being the 1st of December Mel agreed). I stuck on Read more about That festive feeling[…]
Posh Bens doOriginally uploaded by victoriaros56 I can’t believe its Wednesday already. I spent most of the weekend at Zoe’s (in the photo wearing the green top) down in Tooting in London. I went down on Friday night and we spent 4 entire hours catching up with added cheese and wine (most excellent). On the Read more about Wednesday catch up[…]
So here we are Thursday, my favourite day of the week, this may be because my knitting group meet today but I have a feeling it was my favourite day before that, hence why we knit on Thursday’s. Anyway I digress. I had a rare Wednesday night off last night so I did quite blitz Read more about Winter cleaning[…]
I’m having a wobble, it has to be said, the fact that Christmas is approaching and work is getting stressy is seriously worrying me (plus the fact that next year I know its going to get worse, my page count increases by 3000 pages and I get three new journals, eekkk!). The hardest part of Read more about All change please…[…]
My knitting groupOriginally uploaded by victoriaros56 So here they are at last, making their very long overdue debut, my knitters! I realised yesterday that I’d promised my friend Elizabeth (who incidentally now has the best job in the world, she works for a knitting magazine) that I’d get together some photo’s and thoughts from the Read more about My knitting group[…]
kirtlington_breastplateOriginally uploaded by victoriaros56 So last night was the annual Mabel Gubbins AGM. We all went to our new local pub The Red Lion in lovely local village Brightwell cum Sotwell (yes I’m sure it really is called that). The pub it appears has just made it into the the CAMERA good beer guide, and Read more about The annual AGM[…]
Vernon Originally uploaded by victoriaros56 May I introduce my very lovely carnivourse plant Vernon, Vernon is about a year old now and lives on the window sill in my room. Vernon, and indeed the rest of the house, got a rather nasty shock last night when the window blew in & knocked him & the Read more about Poor poor Vernon[…]
Apples in a bucketOriginally uploaded by victoriaros56 So this weekend I made up for my illness and then some. Saturday Nicola came over and I showed her around Abingdon. Quote of the day has to be from Mason’s wool shop, “whoa there is so much wool, its almost like like there is too much… this Read more about Catching up[…]
Vikki & Andy on HalloweenOriginally uploaded by victoriaros56 And so here we are last weekend at Captain Andy’s hotly anticipated halloween bash. As you can plainly see the man himself came as Edward Scissorhands, whilst lurking in the background is me as Daphne (I did have a Scooby (Hartley), but his costume got too hot, Read more about Halloween howlers[…]
Pumpkins of joyOriginally uploaded by victoriaros56 Okay I have been really really bad & not blogged all week, but I fear the elements may have been against me. First up there was the dramatic power cut of Wednesday afternoon (the earlier part of the week was just a flurry of work, so I wont bore Read more about Pumpkins of joy[…]