I’m taking a mini break for the next few days, and I’ll see you all in 2011. Thank you for reading, for your comments and emails – it has been a great peasure to share a little piece of 2010 with you all. I hope the New Year brings you just the right amount of ...
It’s an oldie but a goodie. Funny but sadly accurate, a traditional British Christmas captured in song and image. No, it’s not all Dickensian charm and carol singers: I hope you are having a peaceful day, whatever and wherever you are celebrating. And I will most certainly be recording Doctor Who to watch later, even ...
Is it me, or has the run-up to Christmas been a particularly long, drawn-out one this year? Are you sick of us bloggers telling you how to design tablescapes, treescapes, pillowscapes, candlescapes, probably even giftscapes under the tree? You’ve endured a month of holiday themed posts, thirty days of gift recommendations, twelve days of last ...
It started innocently enough. I wanted to add a little Christmas pizazz to my kitchen. It’s a modern kitchen in a mid-century house, so I thought I’d keep it simple and graphical. The little twig tree and the rather podgy bird are from Cost Plus Market – the other items are from my garden or ...
Did you see the lunar eclipse last night? As I write this, my son’s flight home for Christmas has been delayed by nearly three hours, so I am lucky(!) enough to be up really late and see the totality. Definitely a long night. But the clouds cleared away very obligingly, the moon shrank to look ...
It’s been my secret vice, lately, staying up far too late watching reruns of Doctor Who. I have a couple of good excuses though. First, familiarity – I remember hiding behind the sofa during the scarey bits soon after the show began in 1963, and I certainly can’t say that about any other TV show. ...
I really think that tea is the softer, gentler drink. I mean, I love my doppio espresso or my flat white as much as the next man, but when it comes to making your own, coffee’s a culture where you will get laughed at for owning a machine with a “froth enhancer”, or spat upon ...