bandwaggon jumping

30Jul10

This week the @thesouthpole launched A Message for You which is a lovely thing indeed. It reminded me that ages ago, I made these stickers, inspired by You Are Beautiful.   But my stickers were just a bit too wordy & small, and I forgot to keep them in my bag so I could stick [...]

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Tags: A Message for You, Everything is OK., you are beautiful, you are lovely

it finally fits

28Jul10

When I was a little girl I stayed over at my maternal grandparents most weekends. I would have home made chip with slices of wafer thin bread and butter for tea, all served on my own little tray. I would dance around the sitting room putting on shows for my grandparents and then at a [...]

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Tags: family, love, rings, wedding

lists

28Jul10

Age ago the lovely @lnt89 blogged her list of Good Things. And today @RoOkin blogged 25 Random Fact about himself (I haven’t met RoOkin yet, but he seems lovely too). So here is a list of things I like, which I wrote at JFK whilst waiting for my delayed plane all those months ago. things [...]

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Tags: lists, random

boys & ballet

22Jul10

Well after the high excitement of last weekend (the food, oh the food, the company, the fireworks!) this weekend (yes, the one just gone) was promising to be a damp squib. I had nothing planned, the diary was empty, for gods sake I was in EVERY NIGHT, weeping. And then Mr A decided that an [...]

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Tags: Anti Twitter Girl, ballet Dancing, beer, Friends That Are Boys, gin, Mr A, Mrs A, the Green Cafe

Films boys tell me to watch

15Jul10

I used to be Video Shop Girl. I was good. I knew what films to recommend to whom, and I knew who to put aside copies of certain films for. I can talk a bit about films. I am not that hot on them, for example, I always think that the scene in Goodfellas with [...]

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Tags: films, Video Shop Girl

what happened this weekend

14Jul10

The problem with having a lovely weekend to look forward to, is that after the lovely weekend life looks very dull indeed. And I have just had such a wonderful weekend & now I have nothing exciting happening for weeks. And the weekend just gone has been one I have been looking forward to for [...]

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Tags: Bat, bulls, Ludlow, Newport show, sausages, The Family

this weekend

12Jul10

Am slowly recovering from what has, so far, been The Best Weekend of the Year ™. It started with a very early start on Saturday, and ended with fireworks and a late night on Sunday. Will write a proper report soon, but until I pull my finger out, here is a thrilling list of what [...]

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Tags: beer, food, gluttony

actually from a few weeks ago….

08Jul10

Last weekend, after a normal week at work, a few late nights & a trip to Ludlow Festival (its not like I have to go out of my way to attend it) I woke up at a ridiculously early hour on a Saturday and tootled off down to that London. After a nice train journey [...]

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Tags: London, twitter