Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
I currently have a great deal of housekeeping to do. Not only in the house but elsewhere too. I have a lot of updates to add to my site, pictures to add, buttons to link to and some out of date info that needs changing. I also have some writing projects that I need to [...]
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Once you get in to it getting organised can be a little bit addictive. The feeling you get from doing it and seeing the results gives you such a high that I’ve found I’ve already been thinking about the next thing I can organise and get looking neat and tidy before I’ve finished the project [...]
Monday, June 25th, 2012
This rather innocuous looking corner is my kitchen’s Sweet Spot. I’m employing a touch of reverse psychology here, calling it my Sweet Spot, as what I would naturally call it is ‘the place that is always a mess’, ‘where we dump stuff’ ‘a drain to look at’, ‘tiring’, ‘stressful’….you get the picture. Here it [...]
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
I decorate with a lot of different shades of white. But you already knew that. I use the white as a background, a canvas, a shell with which to place colour. It’s not a new way of decorating, that’s for sure, I’m not breaking new design ground here, but I do find that the possibilities [...]
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Lemon meringue, Apple, Peach, Steak and Kidney, all of them types of pies. Pies that I love. Occasionally, as in the case of my lemon meringue pie for instance, it is necessary to half-bake the pastry that lines the pie case before baking the filling of choice. If you were to line the pie case [...]
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
I found myself up in London yesterday and in the office of a dear friend. She was telling me how she had just had a huge de-cluttering session at her house and how she was now going to start on her office. I asked her whether it felt good to have her entire home ‘sorted’ [...]
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Hello and Happy Friday! I’m back to pottering. With the drama of the last few months less acute and with the worry subsiding somewhat I’ve taken refuge, as my own sort of healing process, in pottering. This is what I do, it’s what I’ve always done even when trying to follow another life path, and [...]
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Hello! I wanted to show you something today and get your opinion on it. It is this sweet white wooden trug. I call it my New England Trug as anything wooden and painted white reminds me of that part of the world. It was designed and made by my Dad in an evening, he’s good [...]
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
I have a room that is full of ‘bits’. It has been emptied since we moved in and now it is full again, of other ‘bits’. This room will either become the dining room or the snug and is just off the entrance hall next door to the kitchen. If I can’t find something it [...]
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
My folks popped over last weekend and offered their help here at the new house. I was thrilled because one of the things I had my eye on repairing was the old wooden dryer hanging above the Rayburn oven in the kitchen. The wood and cast iron pieces that constructed the dryer were actually still [...]
