Unusual Christmas presents 2013: 8
Today is most definitely THE most unusual and unconventional way I have spent a day of my Christmas holidays. As I finished dressing this morning, my husband, who had been up for hours, came in and...
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Sadly, today we drove home from Northumberland which made both my husband and I feel miserable. We always miss our family up there when we leave them and keenly wish we had made more of the time up...
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I confess that as I woke up today, I wondered how on earth my true-loved husband would manage to fulfill today's Christmas gift. Not the foggiest or the slightest idea. He'd surprisingly set the alarm...
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I'm writing this at almost midnight, so forgive me if I am incoherent! My dear love's surprise for me today was exhausting but truly wonderful. On our honeymoon, we'd been to watch an amazing...
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I confess to feeling the back to work, oh-dear-I-have-so-much-to-do feeling as I woke this morning but luckily, we were going over to visit my Dad's house, so I had little time to get too stressed. We...
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Unusual Christmas presents 2013: an explanation
And so it endeth! I have had an extraordinary amount of fun thinking up these posts, writing, publishing and eliciting your reactions. Thank YOU all for being such lively participants, but especially,...
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A series of unfortunate events
Hello! Here's my camera after its long holiday! And for those of you who hated the last 12 or so posts on the trot avec too much writing and sans something to look at, here you go, though my piccie's...
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Christmas 2013: the REAL presents
So several of you expressed a wish to know what CBC really bought me for Christmas and I must say, he chose some very nice items! We were originally planning not to buy each other anything and then buy...
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December 2013 Scavenger Hunt
I'm a little late with posting December's List of Scavenger Hunt photos to uploading and finding them all but here they are. Thanks to Jill at Made with Love for organising the list to hunt for Silver...
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Heart stripe
Hello there mes amigos! How goes it in the land of life and all? Are you still tucking into Christmas confectionery? I'm swimming it in still but still contemplated the Christmas bargain-aisle in any...
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Sweatshirt talking point
Hurrah!! it's Monday which means I have a lovely inspiration from the fabulous Two birds for what to wear!!Actually, I cheated and wore this on Sunday since I was going for a lovely walk through...
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Style imitating art: Untitled by Larry Poons
I have been taking part in Style imitating art recently but forgotten to actually post here! I really do enjoy this challenge since it's very educational!Up this week is "Untitled" by Larry Poons,...
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I was off school for the past two days and felt dreadful. A cough sprang from literally no where on Sunday night (you know you usually get a gradual unwell feeling that grows- not in this case). I...
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2nd hand delight
A while back, I went to stay with friends and had the delight to be seeing a dear friend with very similar reading tastes to me. We could only meet briefly as she was going to sort a mortgage but she...
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Faces, faces, faces!
When I go to Northumberland, as well as visiting my lovely inlaws and their friends, there are a few more people I like to visit. Haltwhistle burn cuts through the most AMAZING gorge with a rock face...
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Blue spots, out on the river....
I wonder, when you come up with blog titles, do you struggle? How do you come up with them? I know some people use lyrics for theirs and sometimes, these are spot on although sometimes come across a...
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Super-easy Valentines card craft idea
In case you haven’t noticed, since I am sure all the shops will be peddling their Valentines tat, sorry, confectionery and romantic goods, Valentines day will soon be upon us!Thus, I thought I’d give...
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Spots and tights and annoyances of the tight kind
Actually this was a blog outfit from before Christmas! Primark did a really cute (maybe too short for this 32 year old- nah!) skater skirt in red cordhuroy, black cordhuroy and plaid/checked red and I...
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Beaming at Beamish
So in the REAL world (and not the fictional one!!!!) I spent the 28th December at the fabulous attraction called 'Beamish' near Durham, in the north of England as an excursion from Northumberland on...
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A triple dose of murder!
This holiday, I had the overwhelming urge to reread some Agatha Christie. The first book I ever read was The A B C Murders, in Northern France on a very dull holiday where it rained pretty much...
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