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A Jurassic lark… or dinosaur hunting in London 15 Jul 2013 | 02:27 am
“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 hi...
London is the place for us… the blog post with its own theme tune 3 Jun 2013 | 07:14 pm
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 s...
Gonna write another travelling song… 6 weeks of London, Edinburgh, Aviemore, Dublin and San Francisco 12 May 2013 | 05:44 pm
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 dri...
London’s calling… 4 sleeps, 40 boxes and so, so, so much sorting to go 26 Mar 2013 | 01:37 am
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. W...
Roar… my super neon, super silly, darn cool doormat DIY 6 Mar 2013 | 11:50 pm
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...
Adventure is out there… a weekend away from the world (well, from wifi, phone reception and tv) 10 Feb 2013 | 05:57 pm
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...
Happy New Cheer… or how I’m almost sort of maybe possibly accepting it’s January 16 Jan 2013 | 03:51 am
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...
Christmas is coming… my tiny terrariums and giant paper snow balls 21 Dec 2012 | 06:44 pm
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 will...
Christmas pudding pinata and other crafty projects by me that are in an actual book! 8 Dec 2012 | 10:09 pm
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 downs...
Japan finds: a tape elephant, washi tape stamps and more 23 Jul 2012 | 07:02 pm
At the weekend, the lovely Lauren came round and took some pics of me and my flat for a feature I’m writing (and another little project too). Before she arrived, I was having a look at my own camera a...
