Posts Tagged ‘gift’

Suffering for my art

13Jul09

It seems I may have tapped my impatient toes too much. They may look innocent and sweet in all their pink flowery girliness, but those little grey shoes are capable of crippling someone in an afternoon. Just a short wander along the seafront was all it took for raw, painful (so painful!) blisters to crop [...]


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On balance

07Jul09

Many things in this life seem to exist purely to fill people with horror and dread: disease, natural disasters, bad hair days… Spiders and thunderstorms I’m learning to cope with – stop sniggering at the back – but there is one little thing that never fails to send shivers down my spine and my stomach [...]


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Crunchy underfoot

03Jan09

To say we’re in the middle of a cold snap would be something of an understatement. 2009 has started with a lengthy bout of bobble hat weather, and now we have the means to track it. Grumpy Lloyd got a weather station for his birthday, complete with something unpronounceable that measures wind speed, and a [...]


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The inbetweening

29Dec08

Oooh, wasn’t it just gone before you knew it? Christmas was uneventful in the best kind of way; quiet and calm, except for me squealing into wrapping paper. Lloyd blew a small fortune on a bundle of Benefit goodies, which I’m now having a lot of fun trying out. I never thought I’d see the [...]


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Picking my jaw up off the floor…

28Sep08

It must have been the blue sky and sunshine that did it; I woke up yesterday and had to go to the seaside. Despite the habit tradition we’re developing of spending birthdays in central London, I wanted something a little more chilled out than the hustle-bustle-shoving of busy shops and streets. So after a lazy [...]


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This is… show off time!

28Sep08

I thought I was going to have trouble picking something for this week’s pic; I want to show the world my bunnies, my lovely sunflowers (still going strong!), little cute things cluttering up my house… and then my husband shocked the hell out of me with a jaw-droppingly fabulous birthday present that he’d saved up [...]


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