Today is the feast of St Odo so I hope you have a good day ( Read more... )

It's bloomin' cold here - I had to scrape ice off the car to take Riddle to the vet for his annual vaccination. Luckily I remembered last year and wrapped the basket in a dustbin sack so that when he peed to show his displeasure it didn't get to the seat ( Read more... )

It's half term last week and this so I met up with the children. Last Monday I took Bede around HMS Warrior in Portsmouth which was fun - though he wasn't feeling too well he cheered up when he had something interesting to see. And on Friday I met Lizzie in Southampton - she spent the week sailing on the Solent with the Ocean Youth Trust. Sadly ( Read more... )

I have spent this afternoon vandalising a piece of Regency furniture. The wireless router answering machine etc. are all in the corner of the dining room and was a horrible mess of wires so I've been looking out for a cupboard of some sort to hide them. On Saturday I saw a Regency bow front corner cupboard that looked right but I decided to ( Read more... )

This is well worth watching.

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I hope you all had a good break. Mine was mixed. Last week my godchildren visited for a few days but their mother was down with flu so we didn't do much - the children managed to download all sorts of rubbish onto the laptop. And although none of them had been on my PC the home page was mysteriously changed ( Read more... )

A Happy Christmas to You all

Obama admits he is in fact French

I've been out shopping for a woodstove since I like having a real fire (and it's much more effective than shredding bank statements etc.). I wasn't too bothered about the manufacturer until I discovered there's a factory around five miles away - now that's truly green

Now that the Republican senator from Alaska has been convicted I have read an ( Read more... )

I've had a busy couple of days. On Friday I went to Calais to stock up on wine. I went with my sister who complained that an hour and a half wasn't long enough in the supermarket (she was stocking up on things like anchovies and artichoke hearts that are ridiculously expensive over here) I can honestly say I have never spent that long in a ( Read more... )