Advent Calendar Scavenger Hunt Day 9- Christmas Bauble
Sorry about the delay yesterday! I had a very traumatic day in terms of trying to do things that conspired against me. Luckily, all is well now!Today's choice for Julie's advent Calendar challenge is...
View ArticleTARDIS Tuesday- Cold War mark 2
Hello All,Hope that you are well!Image borrowed fromhttps://joediliberto.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/doctor-who-7-8-cold-war/Today, I didn't really have time to do a proper TARDIS Tuesday, so I thought...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar Scavenger Hunt Day 10 - Favourite Christmas Recipe
Actually, that title is a misnomer. The below is not my favourite Christmas recipe. To be honest, I don't have one. I like Pigs-in-blankets but you don't need a recipe to wrap sausages in bacon. I...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar Scavenger Hunt Day 11,12,13- Sleigh, Father Christmas and...
Hello there!Sorry about the being late with my posts. I've been staying at school till 6.30pm and by the time I've got home, it's been about 8.00pm. Oh...and we now own a house!!SleighAnother reason,...
View ArticleA Pause for Advent: Christmas is a time for love
When I first was offered the role of music teacher 9 years ago, a lovely friend from my music camp invited me over to her house in rural Ipswich to talk about how I would take on the role and Christmas...
View ArticleTARDIS Tuesday - Jodie Whittaker- the new 13th Doctor
Hi there!Today, I have survived two performances at the church for our annual Carol service for KS2. This year was the first time we had to split it into two in order to fit all the children in so it...
View ArticleAdvent calendar Scavenger Hunt 14- Snowman
I shared some of the stockings from the church Christmas tree last week. This week, during our Pop up nativity, I was sitting the opposite side and I could see these snowmen very clearly.They're very...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar Scavenger Hunt- Day 15- Mistletoe........and murder!
I was wracking my brain to think what I could post for Mistletoe for my Scavenger Hunt and then I suddenly realised what the title of my last book was!!Anyone who has read this blog for a while should...
View ArticleAdvent Scavenger Hunt 16- Nativity
Today, I went out on a charity-shop trawl with two of the three other members of the flute quartet I play in. We had a lovely time- I ended up buying a few books for school, a few books for me, some...
View ArticleAdvent Scavenger Hunt 23 and A pause for Advent 2017: 4: something...
As you may have realised as a long-term reader of this blog- that every year, I write a song for my school children to sing at their performance at the church. Now that I have been doing this for a...
View ArticleAdvent Calendar Scavenger Hunt 2017- The Night before Christmas
For my final day of the Advent Calendar, I thought I'd share a lesser-known piece of music by the composer Rimsky-Korsakov. Most people will recognise his 'Flight of the Bumblebee' or his Scheherezade...
View ArticleRocky Robin
As I was looking through some blogposts that reviewed 2016, I realised that I have done very few outfit posts in 2017 and indeed, less blogposts than I have in previous years. I do think Instagram has...
View ArticleThe book review of 2017
Here's the summary of another year of books. Again, I failed to write reviews throughout the year as I got bogged down in having too many reviews to write and falling behind. Plus, I have a terrible...
View ArticleTARDIS Tuesday outfit- Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
Happy Christmas! I am so sorry that TARDIS Tuesday is a week overdue! I decided to wear my favourite Clara Oswald outfit for Christmas day.This is probably the outfit that made me want to dress up as...
View ArticleA whimsical "Not buying ANYTHING in the sales," wishlist...
Since Christmas is now over and this won't sound like a big Christmas list, I thought I'd share some really nice and cute items that I think are great and would gladly own! As we are now...
View ArticleA brief update
Hi All,I will probably be away from the Blogosphere for the next week or so for a few reasons.Firstly, we moved house yesterday- well, we moved the bulk of the stuff. We have been moving bits and...
View ArticleTARDIS Tuesday- The Time of the Doctor- Naked Clara???
Hello All,THANK YOU so much for your kind wishes towards CBC and myself. We really appreciate your kindness and generous thoughts. I will write a little more on that soon but from the bottom of my...
View ArticleGoodbye and thank you old house
Dear All,Now we have finally completely moved, I thought it would be nice to reflect on the things I was grateful for in my old house, a sort of goodbye. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of things...
View ArticleWise old Man of the Mountain- a farewell.
I wanted to say thank you SO MUCH for all of you that left such kind comments regarding the death of my Father-in-Law. His funeral is to take place on the 22ndof January in Hexham. As I sit and write...
View ArticleThrowback Display memory
Hello there,Thank you very much for your kindness in your comments on my tribute to WOMOTM. I really appreciate you taking the time to read a long essay on my most happy memories of him. The funeral...
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