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Vienna- The Schonbrunn Gardens mazes
CBC and I travelled to Vienna in Austria during our half term holiday. We flew from our local airport which was incredibly easy and stayed in an Air BnB apartment.On our penultimate day, we...
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Memories of Bali- kitties and cuisine
Today, I spent the day at the Indonesian Embassy in London. I was there to attend a reunion of people who had been in receipt of the Darmasiswa Scholarship, a programme run by the Indonesian...
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TARDIS Tuesday- Jon Pertwee's 3rd Doctor in The Time Warrior
Hi there!Hope you are well.I thought, for a change, for a TARDIS Tuesday, I would dress as one of the original Doctors. I have done this before HERE back in 2013- in fact this outfit, but slightly...
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The joy of organic homegrown tomatoes
I know this is a daft post to write but it's my blog so there!I've mentioned the tomatoes that we have grown this year. How 3 plants have yielded over 250 tomatoes.And I consider that utterly...
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Vienna Viennese composers- visiting Schoenberg, Beethoven, Strauss, Schubert...
When we told people we were planning to go to Vienna, they said to us that they presumed we would be planning to go to some concerts since of course, Vienna is famous for its music and composers. The...
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TARDIS Tuesday- Young Clara from The Rings of Akhaten
Hi there,Greetings this dark and gloomy Monday night. I am feeling jubilant to be home at this time because I was covering for a flautist at a rehearsal in Walthamstow and due to the frankly egregious...
View Article10 products that make me mad because of their packaging!
Single-use is the word of the year according to one famous dictionary. But, as you know, there is an terrible, terrible environmental impact from all the plastic particularly that is just being used...
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Recital day
Today was something unusual for me. I had the day off school. I had earnt a day in lieu a year or so ago for when I took my children to Warwick as part of our winning a Shakespeare week composing...
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A Pause for Advent 2018: #1
It's Advent! The time has come to prepare for the coming of Christmas.At church this morning, we listened to the reading from Luke 1, which was about someone that we don't always immediately think of...
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TARDIS Tuesday- Clara's outfit from Into The TARDIS
Hi there,I'm writing this after a night watching The Nutcracker at our local Cinema live from the Royal Opera House. It's a really nice thing to do and actually, I enjoyed the experience on a...
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Memories of Bali- the day the street became a river
A few weeks ago, I shared an image of me with some kittens from Bali and reminisced about my favourite place to meet.Today, I am sharing another Bali photo. This one is of me again. It was April 2003...
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Avid Reader's Club
It's actually quite rare nowadays that I buy clothes that don't come from a second-hand source.However, there has been something new I have wanted for such a long time. I saw that Joanie had an Avid...
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A pause for Advent 2018 #2: In dulci jubilo
I confess that I always worry about writing my Pause for Advent posts. Worried that I won't be able to think of something to say, worried that it will be shunned by many of my regular readers because...
View ArticleZero Waste Christmas
Here are some ideas from Zerowaste week for presents to give that won't make a bad impact on the environment. All the below comes from the Zero Waste week website. I thought I would share it...
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TARDIS Tuesday- The Seventh Doctor's 'Questionable' outfit
Hello there!How are you?Today, I thought I'd go for a classic Doctor Who look. MY Doctor, i.e. the one I grew up with, was Sylvester McCoy,the 7th Doctor. His costume was certainly eccentric:It...
View Article10 things to be thankful for
It's always important for your well-being to count your blessings and look for the positives in your day. For me, as a Christian, it's an essential part of my life too. At the moment, I've found...
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Monty, Vanilla and Nutmeg
I shared some photos a year ago of some clever things my friend Lara made for me. You can see guerkins, spats and brussel spouts here She crochets and makes the most beautiful items including animals...
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A pause for Advent 2018 #3: Imperfection
Christmas can be a time of strong emotions: euphoria, hopefulness, joy, excitement but also disappointment, anxiety, depression, loneliness and sadness, depending on circumstances. It can be...
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TARDIS Tuesday- Clara Oswald's Caretaker glam outfit!
Hello there!How are you? Well, I hope. Today's TARDIS Tuesday outfit is one of the most recognisable and cosplayed Clara Oswald outfits of them all. It is one of her many outfits from the funny...
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How do you dress your Christmas tree?
The big debate on how you dress your Christmas tree!! A work colleague asked me what my approach was to decorations. I like a random assortment of ornaments- tinsel, lights, hand-made decorations a...
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