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How to make your ballet pumps look cute in 5 minutes
I hate to disappoint you, but it's not one of those types of posts but I thought I'd introduce the post in this way.I've been making pom-poms a lot this holiday, so I decided to add some to my pink...
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King's Cross Pond Club
 A while back, I heard about a special Art installation that was being created in the King's Cross area called King's Cross Pond Club. A special swimming pool that is actually a unique combination of...
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Belsay Hall 2: entering the Quarry gardens
I left you during my last post on Belsay Hall at the Grecian mansion.  As we left here, we headed out into the gardens.   These are Grade I listed, so we were expecting something beautiful.Just...
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The day I became a Bookseller and other London adventures.
Having left the King's Cross Pond Club, I figured that this would be rather an expensive swimming pool visit unless I made other use of my train ticket to go somewhere else in London or visit other...
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Adventures in card-making: A mannish solution
The age-old perennial dilemma for cardmakers is making cards for men.Girls can be catered for with a plethora of generic items- flowers, cakes, shoes, dresses, patterns, dogs, cats, pretty patterns,...
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Pretending to be a pin-up girl
 Howdy!  Hope you are having a beautiful day! As I write this, it is scorchingly hot, and I am sheltering inside before heading off to London for a leaving party for an acquaintance who is heading off...
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Belsay Hall final part: The Medieval Castle!
If there's one thing that Northumberland has a plethora of, it's castles!!! The Belsay estate, not content with amazing gardens and a Grecian-inspired Mansion, has the original Medieval castle!The...
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Ducks, geese and bird brooches
 During our two week staycation, CBC and I went for a drive to go and take some hire-orchestral music to Faber music in Harlow, so on the way home, we decided to drive on the Essex highway to Writtle...
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What is it? #35
Hello there! Here we have the 35th anniversary (coral) edition of 'What is it?' and  we return to the old familiar protagonist, the humble cloud.I saw this particular cloud in the Lake District and...
View Article6 words I loathe
I may be a bit of a weirdo in this respect if you read this and feel rather confuzzled by the sentiment with it, but there are certain words or phrases that I hear in conversation that really make me...
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My Citrus hearts
It's been a while since I bought a craft magazine. Â I used to buy them quite regularly and was bought a subscription to my favourite magazine many years ago. Nowadays, I don't buy them often as I have...
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August Scavenger Hunt 2015
Welcome to the August Scavenger Hunt run up! How good am I completing it by the end of the month!WalkCBC and I went to Burnham-on-Crouch, a  small town in Essex for the afternoon.  We just went on...
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TARDIS Tuesday: Journey to the centre of the maze
Since we're back to school (as you're reading this, I shall be miserably in school), we're also back to TARDIS Tuesday! I've missed it!One of my favourite new Who episodes was Journey to the centre of...
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Rainy day madness!
One of my favourite blog people (do I have favourites? I love you all for different qualities?) for zany brilliance is the wonderful Melanie at Bag and a Beret. Heck, she has a HAT in her blog title-...
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The maize-maze at Millet's farm- It's a little corny!
Last week, CBC and I travelled to Oxfordshire to stay with CBC's Mum in CBC's sister's house. It's a little -complicated! Â We'd been there for 4 days and on the 4th day, driving to Wallingford to see...
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On being the chief of the tea police
It's a hard job but someone's got to do it.Over the past two years of living together as husband and wife, CBC has jokingly referred to me as 'The Tea Police' as I harry and shoo him to finish any cup...
View ArticleQuestions I've answered
The lovely Bevchen at Confuzzledom nominated me for one of those award thingies, so I thought I'd answer the questions for it! I love these types of posts to read so I thought I'd write one in...
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Sweet treats
You can tell I had a mammoth card-making sesh over the holidays! It happens when you get several weeks in a row with new cards featuring!Sometimes, you see a card idea that is JUST GENIUS! You think,...
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A week of brooches
Hello there!I thought it would be funny and a bit different to share a week (well,5 days, shhh!) of brooches I've been wearing as a fun way to jazz up an outfit! I do think a good brooch is an awfully...
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What is it? #36
Today's 'What is it?' is courtesy of CBC who usually pooh-poohs my car-based cloud spotting (Usually because I blog sideview mirrors when I lean forward to take a shot)We have cloud from Oxfordshire...
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