This is a follow up post to the London by day post. The rain held off one night so we headed off to take some night-time photos. These were all taken by Archie with assistance from his parents! Big Ben with a big red bus passing by. My job was to spot the buses coming […]
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The next stop in our travels was Reykjavik, Iceland. Reykjavik at Christmas is a magical place. There is snow and fairy lights abound and the above and below drone shots show the prettiness of the city in winter. Tom and Archie are those two little figures in the foreground, and they are standing on a […]
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This is my second post on New York City, the first one is here. This post is going to be about: Museums More sights A scary bike ride Aerial views Evening entertainment Eateries Let’s start with the scary bike ride shall we? We decided to hire some Citi bikes. They are a bike sharing system […]
Read moreBetty Boop
This is probably the scariest post I have done so far (although it is early days!). Inspired by HandmadebyCarolyn’s white bombshell (doesn’t she look amazing?), I rushed off and bought this pattern from Closet Case Files and decided that I had to have it in a polka dot! Given that these are ’50s inspired bathers, I thought […]
Read morea-glamping we will go…
…sung to the tune of “a hunting we will go”. Believe it or not, none of us could remember the word “hunting”, we just had glamping in our heads. Took a while to remember it. We drove down to Margaret River last night, once Mark got home from work. Mark set up the trailer whilst […]
Read moreSunday, Sunday
Today I wore another garment that I haven’t worn for a while – a Cat Bordhi mobius from “A Treasury of Magical Knitting” that I knitted in Hobart from silk and linen yarn that I bought in Barcelona. The problem is that I made it too big and was not going to frog it, so I […]
Read moreAnother challenge!
Well, just as I can see the end of MMM’13, I begin the Global Corporate Challenge and this one goes for 3 months. This is my 7th time doing the GCC, although I did have last year off. I am therefore going to be reorting my steps daily, somewhat in the style of Bridget Jones’ […]
Read moreSaturday sewing solace
I often think of this quote by Ogden Nash “Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you”. I don’t mind being home on Saturday night because it’s a great night for creative endeavours. Mark is glued to the football and […]
Read moreBrain droppings
… with apologies to George Carlin for borrowing the title of his book, but it was the only title I could think of which reflected my blogging today. This post was motivated by a visit from my son, Tom, who is required to write an essay which posits that science and creativity were at odds […]
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