Bertie plays the blues
Image borrowed from www.foyles.comwhere you can purchase this book from to avoid the tax dodgers.I've been saving my last 44 Scotland Street book for a while, so I know I have a supply of my favourite...
View ArticleA pause for advent 2014: 2. A poem of preparation
And to accompany my poem, a beautiful Advent song I heard: Waiting in Silence by Carey Landry.Words and images are my own.I'm linking to Ang's blog for A Pause in Advent with this post.
View ArticleBuy 1 Doctor Who character, get another one free (with added lions.)
I haven't joined in with the Twobirds Inspiration Monday for ages and I felt really sad about that- I like to support my friends' link-ups (especially the Birds, who have been loyal friends for several...
View ArticleDIY ideas for Christmas jumper day
As you may have realised, a recent phenomena is almost upon us. I am talking Christmas Jumper day, a day that Save the Children have deemed a charity day. I think the raising of money is a good thing-...
View ArticleThrifty Christmas outfit
Last Friday, we had a red and green day at school where the children brought something in for the Christmas bazaar in exchange for dressing up.I decided to go with it too and wore a couple of my nicest...
View ArticleA pause for Advent 2014: 3: Presents
CBC and I went out to do a spot of Christmas shopping on Saturday and I was not a nice person to be around. It was cold, wintry, I didn't have thick enough tights on, I was annoyed, I was tired, not...
View ArticleIt's Christmas jumper time!
Yo there! (urgh, such an un-Kezzie thing to say! I mean, could you ever imagine me saying yo? Well, look, bizarrely it happened!)Friday was absolutely hilarious as everyone rocked up to school in their...
View ArticleThe 6 degrees of Separation of TARDIS Tuesday and Inspiration Monday
I should begin this post with a disclaimer that I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally would like this coat! Carey Mulligan is the inspiration outfit for this week's Inspiration Monday with the Two birds and...
View ArticleReverse Advent
Frugal Queen has been sharing ideas of how to do Reverse Advent #Advent Challenge this year- giving things away every day instead of receiving something for each day of Advent. I really haven't managed...
View ArticleChristmas family traditions
A week ago or so, one of the Two Birds (I think) talked about Christmas traditions that the Two Birds like to do around Christmas with their families.They asked if anyone else had any Christmas...
View ArticleAnd that will be your crowning glory your whole life through
Special brownie points to anyone who tells me which film the blog title comes from (no cheating and looking on google!)It was my work Christmas party last week and we went for a very nice Chinese meal...
View ArticleA pause for Advent 2014: 4- Jesus selfies and Feel the Christmas beat
Two thoughts for you this Sunday on Advent. Today was the Nativity service at church. The subject of the speaker's short talk after it was Selfies with Jesus. At each part of the talk, parents and...
View ArticleBloggers Secret Santa 2014
I signed up for and took part in Char's Bloggers' Secret Santa and received a wonderful parcel on Saturday from Ingrid at See the colts who thankfully included her name and blog link.She'd decorated...
View ArticleChristmas quizzes and fun: The logo quiz
Hi there,I always like to have some fun making quizzes for my family to do on Christmas day- it all sprang from a Christmas quiz idea with my inlaws a couple of years ago. I've shared ones I've done...
View ArticleThe Christmas logo quiz answers
If you want to take part in this quiz first, don't look at this post until you have done the quizzes.Kezzie xxHere are the answers to the logo quizzes.No cheating...
View ArticleI've got the TARDIS blues
TARDIS Tuesday has been going for four weeks now. I panicked a little today, wondering how I can keep it original each week, but will just have to explore different permeatations of the same items or...
View ArticleChristmas day again
Hello there! I hope that you have had an amazing Christmas with many blessings! I have had a lovely time so far over the Christmas holiday!We went over to my Dad's house for Christmas. I went over on...
View ArticleGiant insects in the forest!
On Boxing Day, CBC and I decided we had spent far too much time inside so we decided to go for a walk. We decided to aim for Lullingstone country park - (Lullingstone castle and Roman villa are...
View ArticleThat's Shallot!
Ho there!CBC and I held a little Pre-Christmas shindig with our friend and cooked a delicious dish we would recommend. It's Otto Lenghi's Root mash with wine braized shallots. We had a lot of them...
View ArticleThe theory of everything
On New year's day, we headed en-masses to Carlisle to see a viewing of the new film about Stephen Hawking's life. I'm not really a cinema-goer or a film-buff but I was intrigued to see this.The film...
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