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A teeny bit Halloweeny (pocket-sized pumpkins and a sea green squash)
This week, I fell in love… with a sea green squash and some tiny pumpkins. Now you can probably guess my general tiredness (and sanity) levels lately… by the fact that I went to buy lunch and came...
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A trip to New York… or the holiday and the hurricane
Sometimes life is weird. And sometimes, it’s weirder than weird. Back in the summer, my other half decided he wanted to take me to New York as a surprise birthday present. So on October 28th, we went...
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Christmas pudding pinata and other crafty projects by me that are in an...
Last Christmas, I mentioned in a blog post that I was working on a book project… and Handmade Christmas it was! It’s a festive crafty book published by Penguin in the States and Australia. (The...
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Christmas is coming… my tiny terrariums and giant paper snow balls
So, Christmas… this year, I’m all about the snow. Since it seemed unlikely there’d be actual snow (*shakes fist at the sky*), I wanted to create my own little snowy scenes. Guaranteed snow if you...
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Happy New Cheer… or how I’m almost sort of maybe possibly accepting it’s January
I am usually a chipper sort of soul. In fact, fellow blogger a safe mooring once described me as ‘sunshine on toast’… but oh January, well, let’s say it’s not my favourite month. It’s just so January....
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Adventure is out there… a weekend away from the world (well, from wifi, phone...
Sometimes you need to get away from it all… to switch off the world for a while, and go exploring. Two weekends ago, we did just that. We drove off into the middle of nowhere* and went somewhere with...
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Roar… my super neon, super silly, darn cool doormat DIY
Up until the end of February, there was a deer doormat outside our door. More specifically, a reindeer doormat. Now I knew we needed a new doormat. Knew it but still couldn’t bring myself to actually...
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London’s calling… 4 sleeps, 40 boxes and so, so, so much sorting to go
So, yes. We’re moving. To London. On Friday. This Friday. In three days and four sleeps. Eeeeek! The last while has mainly consisted of this… 1. Sorting out 6.5 years of interior design magazines....
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Gonna write another travelling song… 6 weeks of London, Edinburgh, Aviemore,...
6 weeks ago, I moved to London. It seems like no time at all and like forever all at once. To put it all in perspective (for my own sanity really), here’s the last 42 days in numbers… 400 miles...
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London is the place for us… the blog post with its own theme tune
Last Sunday, we were listening to 6 Music and having a discussion about living in London… Mainly we were talking about that only one of us was living here full-time (me) and one of us was having to...
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A Jurassic lark… or dinosaur hunting in London
“Any day with a dinosaur in it is a good day.” me, circa June 2013 Our first sunny Wednesday evening in London, we decided to go dinosaur hunting… Not to the Natural History Museum – despite the...
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Idle of Wight… three days of caravans, kitsch and prehistoric creatures
Almost a month ago, we went on a trip back to the Isle of Wight… to be the Idle of Wight. In my head, it was an Enid Blyton little adventure for two… camping, exploring, stopping for lemonade! We...
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We’ll always have Paris… two days of street art and pretending to be Amelie
On July 28 2013, 9.49 pm and 32 sec. A blue fly of the Calliphorides species, Whose wings can flutter 14670 times per minute lands in Saint-Vincent Street, Montmartre. At the exact same time, near the...
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Flat rules… a teeny tour of our tiny home and its mottos
Really we should have more practical rules for living in a small flat. Like having less stuff, tidying more, not leaving our shoes right at the door. Food would be good, as opposed to empty cupboards...
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Santa, I know him! … and other Christmas New York tales
On 34th Street is where we start this tale… all about a girl and a boy and a big shiny city called New York. Now, they’d come here before – last time during a hurricane – and that hadn’t felt quite...
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The Red Velvet Pancake experiment… a tasty (but cautionary) tale
“It looks like a bad burger”. We both stared at the forlorn lump of batter, burning gently at the edges. Brown bubbles simmered on its surface. Smoke began to rise from the pan. “I don’t trust this...
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London reflections… one big city, one little marble
339 days ago, I moved to London… In those first days, people would ask regularly ‘are you absolutely loving it’? Those exact words. And I didn’t have a good answer. Did I? I really wasn’t sure. It...
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Everything’s going to be all bright… a mini new home tour… + tales from the...
So in April we said goodbye to our first London flat (and goodbye to having wifi at home until mid May!). I was blasé about this move. After all, last time we’d moved home, we’d packed up our entire...
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Our Roman Holiday… 5 days of gelato, coffee, street art and, er, cats in Rome
“We spent the whole day doing things I’ve always wanted to.” Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday. Somewhere up on a rooftop in Rome, with St Peter’s illuminated in the background and a glass of cava in...
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A fruity bedroom makeover… with DIY watermelon bedding
Back in April, I came across these watermelon sheets on Australia’s Vogue and became ‘slightly’ obsessed. But budget and distance was against me so I thought I would have a go at making my own...
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